X CONTENTS. 



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List of Members of Wernerian Society, . . . 437 



Report from Dredging Committee, . . 43S 



Note as to the Purchase of the Museum of the late Hugh 



Miller for the University, .... 439 



I. Rhind (Win.), Notice of Coal found in the Argillaceous 



Slate Quarries of Seil Island, Argyleshire, . .439 



II. M'Bain (Jas.), Remarks on a Baleen Whale captured off 



the Bell Rock, . . . . .441 



III. Wright (T. S.), Observations on British Zoophytes. (With 



2 Plates), . . . . . .447 



IV. (1.) Peach (C. W.), on Lamellaria tentaculata, and its 



Nidification, ..... 455 



(2.) A Notice of Natural Printing of Sea- weeds 



on the Rocks in the vicinity of Stromness, . 458 



V. Smith (J. A.), Notice of the Sandy Ray [Raia spinosa), 



taken off Wick, ..... 463 



VI. (1.) Forrest (Geo.), Notice of Granite found in situ in Mid- 

 Lothian ...... 463 



(2.) Smith (J. A.), do. do. . . 463 



VII. Davies (Jas. B.), Notes of some Experiments on the Pre- 

 servation of Marine Radiata, .... 464 



VIII. Stewart (J. A.), Notice regarding the Food of Patella 



vulgata, ...... 466 



IX. Carruthers (W.), Dumfriesshire Graptolites, with Descrip- 

 tions of Three New Species, . . . .466 



X. Livingston (John), on Poterioceras ventricosum from the 



Carboniferous Limestone Beds near Gorebridge, .. 470 



