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upright 

 growth of 

 plants. 

 Mr Wilson 

 on the Cirl 

 Bunting. 



Secretary read a communication from Mr Wil-* 

 SON, containing remarks on the characters of the 

 Cirl Bunting, and announcing the fact of a spe- 

 cimen having been shot near Edinburgh ; which 

 specimen was presented. 



1815. 

 Feb. ir. 

 Professor 

 Jameson 

 on the Fos- 

 sil Elk of 

 the Isle of 

 Man. 



Mr Camp- 

 bell on the 

 uprignt 

 growth of 

 vegetables. 



Dr Holder 

 on the in- 

 teneration 

 of flesh by 

 the juice of 

 the papaw 

 tree. 



Professor Jameson read a series of observations 

 on the extinct species of Cervus, and a communica- 

 tion concerning the skull and horns of an extinct 

 species of Elk, found in the Isle of Man, differing in 

 several respects from those of the Irish Elk ; trans- 

 mitted by Mr Scott, Receiver-General of that 

 Island. Mr Campbell of Carbrook read the se- 

 cond part of his paper on the upright grov/th of 

 Vegetables ; and the Secretary read a communi- 

 cation from Dr Holder on the inteneration of 

 butcher-meat or poultry, by means of the juice 

 or exhalation of the Carica papaya or Papaw- 

 tree. 



1816. 

 Mar. 2. 



Professor 

 Jameson on 

 Lepidolite. 

 Mr Steven- 

 son on the 

 bed of the 

 German 

 Ocean. 



181G. 

 Mar. 16. 



Dr Wal- 

 ker's ac- 

 count of 

 liiri own 

 studies. 



Professor Jameson read a paper on the Lepi- 

 dolite of Scotland ; and the Secretary read the 

 first part of Mr Stevenson's paper on the pro- 

 bability of a change constantly going on in the 

 level of the Bed of the German Ocean. 



Professor Jameson read an account of Dr Wal- 

 ker's Mineralogical Studies, and a description of 

 his Collection, written by himself. The Secre- 



