Remarks on the Skull of an Ancient Peruvian. 75 



lating to Trawling for Herring on the Coasts of Scotland, 1863. — From 

 the Eoard of Fisheries. 8. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), 

 Vol XII., Nos. 53, 54.— From the Society. 



The usual Committees were appointed for conducting special investiga- 

 tions during the summer. 



Mr Gkorge Logan made some remarks on the recently published 

 Report of the Royal Commission on our Fisheries, now presented to the 

 Library ; and referred especially to the opinions there enunciated as to 

 the herring and sprat fisheries, which exactly corresponded with those 

 always advocated by this Society. 



The following Communications were read : — 



I. On the Eiidence of the Rise of the Shores of the Firth of Forth By 



Alexander Bryson, Esq. 



Mr Bryson described various places on the shores of the 

 Firth of Forth, to show that there was not the slightest evi- 

 dence to be found of any rise of level, at least in recent times. 

 He referred to the rock at Cramond sculptured with the 

 Koman eagle, believed by antiquaries to be the work of the 

 Komans ; and showed that it was now just above high- water 

 mark, so that, if a rise of twenty-five feet, as has been 

 assumed, or indeed any rise at all, had taken place since that 

 time, this rock must have been entirely under water at the 

 Koman period. He alluded to the position of the Koman 

 wall at Carriden, and showed that no remains of it had been 

 visible for at least 200 years back ; so that no evidence of any 

 kind could be got from it. He also pointed out the exist- 

 ence of an extensive fluviatile or fresh-water deposit, at the 

 mouth of the river Almond at Cramond, without any included 

 marine remains; the existence of which would have been im- 

 possible had any great rise of the land taken place here. 



II. Remarks on the Skull of an Ancient Peruvian. By James M'Bain, 



M.D., R.N. 



The object of the following remarks is to prove the insuf- 

 ficient evidence on which the so-called interparietal bone 

 has been assumed by some authors to be a constant and spe- 

 cial peculiarity of the ancient Peruvian race. The skulls 

 which I now exhibit to the Koyal Physical Society were 

 presented to me some time ago by Commander George 

 Palmer, formerly first-lieutenant of II. M.S. " Edinburgh." 



