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APPENDIX. 



1808. 

 May 14. 

 Professor 

 Jameson, 

 Mineralogi- 

 cal Queries; 

 Mr Wal- 

 ker's List of 

 Birds in the 

 neighbour- 

 hood of 

 Edinburgh. 



1808. 

 June 11. 

 Captain 

 Laskey on 

 Pinna in- 

 gens. Dr 

 Anderson 

 on Inch- 

 keith. i)r 

 Thomson 

 on Fluor- 

 spar. 



Professor Jameson finished the reading of his 

 Mineralogical Queries, illustrating them by re- 

 marks. Mr Walker then laid before the Socie- 

 ty a List of Birds found in the Neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, with observations on the rare or dis- 

 puted Species. 



Captain Laskey read paper on the Pinna in- 

 gens. This paper is inserted in the First Volume 

 of the Memoirs, p. 102. — 106. Dr Charles An- 

 derson then laid before the Society a general 

 sketch of the Geognosy of the Island of Inch- 

 keith, in the Frith of Forth, as preparatory to a 

 more detailed account. Dr Thomson read a 

 paper on Fluor -Spar, which is published in the 

 First Volume of the Memoirs, p. 8. — 1 1 . 



1808. 

 July 16. 

 Mr Neiirs 

 List of 

 Fishes. 



Colonel 

 Montague's 

 Observa- 

 tions on 

 the Gannet) 

 and De- 

 scription 

 of a new 

 Insect. 



Mr Neill laid before the Society a List of 

 such Fishes as he had ascertained to 6e natives of 

 the waters in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, 

 accompanied with specimens pf the rarer species. 

 This list is contained in the First Volume of the 

 Memoirs, p. 526. — 555, Two communications 

 from Colonel Montagu were then read ; one of 

 them upon the characters and habits of the 

 Gannet, Pelecanus Bassanu3, and the distribution 

 of the Air-Cells in that Bird ; the other de- 

 scribing a new Insect, found in the Cellular 

 Membrane of the Gannet. These papers ave 



