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APPENDIX. 



Mr Bald's 



description 

 of trie Coal 

 Field of 

 Alloa. 

 Mr Stew- 

 tirt's List 

 of Insects 

 found nenr 

 Edinburgh. 



1809. 

 Mdy 13. 

 Rev. Mr 

 Fleming's 

 enumera- 

 tion of the 

 Plants of 

 West Lo- 

 thian. 



Mr Wal- 

 ker on 

 Eels. 



Continua- 

 tion of Mr 

 Bald's pa- 

 per on the 

 Coal For- 

 mation of 

 Alloa. 



Letter con- 

 cerping the 

 Sea Snake. 

 Mr Don's 

 List of 

 Plants in 

 the King's 

 Park. 



the Secretary. Mr Stewart then laid before 

 the Society a list of Insects found by him in the 

 neighbourhood of Edinburgh, with introductory 

 remarks. This list is inserted in 1st vol. Mem. 

 p. 566.-577. 



The Reverend Mr Fleming laid before the 

 Society an outline of the Flora of West Lothian, 

 enumerating only such Plants as are omitted by 

 LiGHTFooT, or marked as uncommon by Dr 

 Smith. Mr Walker read an account of some 

 Eels which had lived for fourteen years in a sub- 

 terraneous pool at Drumsheugh. The Secre- 

 tary read the continuation of Mr Bald's descrip- 

 tion of the Coal Field of Alloa. Likewise a let- 

 ter from the Reverend Donald Maclean of 

 Small Isles, describing the appearance of a Great 

 Sea Snake, or marine animal of some sort, among 

 the Hebrides in June 1808. And a communica- 

 tion from Mr George Don of Forfar, contain- 

 ing a list of Plants growing in the King's Park, 

 but not included in Mr Yalden's list published 

 at the end of the Flora Scotica. 



180f?. 

 Nov. 4. 

 Mr Brown 

 on the or- 

 der Ascle- 

 piadese. 



The Secretary laid before the Society a learn- 

 ed Botanical paper from R. Brown, Esq. F. R. S. 

 on the Asclepiadeae, a natural order of Plants se- 

 parated from the Apocineae of Jussieu. This im* 

 portant Memoir is inserted in the 1st vol. Mem. 



