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This day is Pitblished by Arch. Constable cj« Co. 

 Edinburgh y and Longman^ Hurst ^ Ree.s, Orme 

 and Browji, London. 



VOLUME FIRST 



OF THE 



Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural Histohy Societt. 

 With Fifteen Engravings. 



Pi'ice One Guinea in Boards, 

 CONTENTS, 



Meteorology. Journals of Greenland Voyages in 1807, 1808, 

 1709, and 1810, by Mr Scoresby. — Chemistry. Analysis of 

 Fluor-Spar, and on the Gaseous combination of Hj^drogen and 

 Carbon, by Dr T. Thomson. Analysis of Compact Felspar of the 

 Pentland Hills, by Mr C. Mackenzie. — Zoology. Remarks on 

 some parts of the Stronsa Animal, by Dr Barclay. On the Gan-; 

 net, and on an Insect which infests the Trachea of Poultry, by 

 Colonel Montagu. On the Greenland Whale, with a Plate, con- 

 taining the only correct figure of the Animal ever published, by 

 Mr Scoresby. Description of a Narwal cast ashore in Zetland, by 

 Dr Fleming. On the Zetland Sheep, by Dr Edmondslpn. Ac- 

 count of North British Testacea, and on the Pinna ingens, by Cap- 

 tain Laskey. List of the Scottish Animals of the Class Vermes, 

 by Professor Jameson. List of Insects found near Edinburgh, by 

 Mr C. Stewart. Account of a Fin- Whale stranded near Alioaj, 

 and List of Fishes in the Frith of Forth, &c. by Mr P. Neill. — 

 Botany. On the natural order Asclepiadese, by Mr Robert 

 Brofvn of the Linnean Society. On the Germination of the Gra- 

 minese, by Dr Yide. List of rare Plants in the neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, by Mr Maugha.n. — Mineralogy. On Cotemporane- 

 ous Veins ; on Geological Maps ; on the Topaz of Scotland ; 011 

 the Strontian Lead-Giance Formation ; on Cryolite ; and Mine- 

 ralogical Queries, by Professor Jameson. On the Mineralogy and 

 Local Scenery of Ben-Ledi and its Environs, Pass of Leny, Bala- 

 helish, Strontian, and Ben-Nevis, by Dr Macknight. On the 

 Conglomerate Ilock of the Grainpians, by Colonel Imrie. Ac- 

 count of the Island of Papa Stour, by Dr Flemi?ig. On the Coal 

 Formation of Clackmttimnshire, by Mr Bald, Civil Engineer. On 

 the Coal Formation at Durham, by Mr T. Mackenzie. On the 

 Hock at Fassney in East Lothi^an, and on the Veins of the Fia^tz- 

 Trap of that county, by Dr Ogilby. 



