President' \s Address. 



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Dr Traill, Dr Dewar, Mr Swainson, Mr Edmonston, Dr Knox, 

 Mr Selby, Dr Hibbert, Dr Richardson, Mr Coldstream, Rev. 

 David Scot, Mr William Jardine, Mr Parnell, Dr Grant, Mr 

 Macgillivray, Dr Craigie, Mr J. Duncan, and Mr Edward For- 

 bes. In Meteorology — Rev. Dr Scoresby. In Physical Science 

 — Mr Stevenson, Dr Brewster, Mr Adie, and Mr Deuchar. 



The Society continued to hold meetings with more or less 

 regularity up to 1850 ; and I have drawn up from its records 

 the following notices, in continuation of its published pro- 

 ceedings : — 



On the 11th August 1838, the Society proposed to encour- 

 age the study of Natural History, by the offer of premiums 

 for the best essays on certain subjects in Hydrography, 

 Geology, Zoology, and Botany. These were subsequently 

 advertised. 



The thirty-second session of the Society was opened on 

 24th November 1838, by Professor Jameson; and on the 

 15th December of that year, papers were read by Dr Traill 

 on the Cheir oilier mm ; and by Sir John Dalyell on a singu- 

 lar mode of propagation in some of the lower animals ; besides 

 communications on the Geology of Melrose and Earlston, and 

 on Meteorology. 



On 12th January 1839. Professor Jameson exhibited Lab- 

 rus trimaculatus and Gadus minutus, two rare fishes which 

 had been found in the Pentland Firth ; and the carcass of a 

 large cinereous eagle, "being one of the two birds of that kind 

 which had the boldness to attack a traveller near Newton- 

 Stewart in Galloway." 



On 26th January 1839, Mr Smith of Jordanhill read obser- 

 vations on the elevated marine deposits in the basin of the 

 Clyde, accompanied with remarks by Deshayes, Lyell, and 

 Sowerby, on the shells unknown as British imbedded in 

 them, from which it appeared that, out of twenty species, 

 seven are at present to be found recent in the Arctic Seas, five 

 in the Crag and Sicilian Newer Pliocene, and that the rest 

 are peculiar to the deposit in question. Edward Forbes was 

 proposed as a member by Professor Jameson, and his nomi- 

 nation was seconded by Dr Neill. He was admitted on 9th 

 February. At the same meeting, Professor Wallace explained 



