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Society, was read by the Convener, George Logan, Esq.,W.S.; 

 and unanimously approved of. 



The usual Committees were appointed for conducting spe- 

 cial investigations during the recess. 



Museum of the late Hugh Miller. — The Secretary, Dr J. A. 

 Smith, stated that a public subscription had been commenced 

 to purchase the museum of their late President, Hugh Miller, 

 for the purpose of its being placed in the National Museum 

 about to be built in Edinburgh ; he alluded to the importance 

 of preserving unimpaired such a valuable collection, and the 

 advantage to be derived by all students of geology in being 

 able, in any future examination of fossils, to refer to and exa- 

 mine the original specimens described by Hugh Miller himself 

 in his various published works. Lists of the members of the 

 Society who had already subscribed were laid on the table, 

 and the Secretary said he would be glad to be favoured with 

 the names of others who might be anxious to lend their aid 

 to the completion of so desirable an object. 



The following Donation to the Library was laid on the Table, and 

 thanks voted to the donor : — 



The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art, No. XIV. From 

 the Canadian Institute, Toronto. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. Notice of Coal found in the Argillaceous Slate Quarries of Seil 

 Island, Argyleshire. (Specimens were exhibited.) By William 

 Rhind, Esq. 



The island of Seil, and the adjoining isle of Eisdale, lying 

 close to the Argyleshire shore, and six miles south of the 

 village of Oban, belong to the group called by Dr Macculloch 

 the " Slate Isles." They are composed chiefly of fine-grained 

 argillaceous schists, occasionally alternating with which are 

 layers of a coarser-grained schist, termed by Dr Macculloch 

 " greywacke," and also thin strata of a dark-grey slaty 

 limestone. 



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