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ALSOj 



VOLUME SECOND 



OF THE 



Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 

 With Twenty-Seven Engravings. 



CONTENTS. 

 Part I. (Price 12s. J 

 METfeoROLOGY. Observations made in Greenland in 1811 and 

 1812, by Mr Scoreshy, — Chemistry. Analysis of Magnetic Iron- 

 Ore from Greenland, and of a new species of Lead Ore from In- 

 dia, by Dr Thomson of Glasgow. Analysis of Pearl-Spar, by M. 

 Hisinger. — Zoology. Account of British Sponges, b}'- Colonel 

 Montagu. Description of a Swordfish killed in the Frith of Forth ; 

 observations on the Genus Squalus of Linnaeus, by Dr Leach 

 of the British Museum. Contributions to the British Fauna, 

 by Dr Fleming. On the Colymbus Immer, by Dr Edmondston. 

 On the structure of the Cells in the Combs of Bees and Wasps, by 

 Dr Barclay. — Mineralogy . On the Mineralogy of {he Pentland 

 Hills ; on Conglomerated or Brecciated Rocks; on Porphyry; and 

 Mineralogical observations and speculations, by Professor Jameson, 

 Geological account of the Campsie Hills, by Colonel Lnrie. De- 

 scription of Tinto, by Dr Macknight. On the rocks in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Dundee; and en those near St Andrew's, by Dr 

 Fleming. On the Ochil Hills, by Charles Mackenzie, Esq. 



Part II. (Price 1 6s. J 



Meteorology. On the coincidence in the pressure of the At- 

 niosphei'e, in different Latitudes at nearly the same time, by Lord 

 Gray. — Hydrography. On the state of the Polar Ice, by Mr 

 Scoresby. On the tendency to filling up in the German Ocean, by 

 Mr Stevenson, Civil Engineer. — Chemistry. Analysis of Native 

 Iron from Leadliills, by Mr Dacorda. — Zoology. Account of some 

 new or rare British Fishes, by Colonel Montagu. — Description of 

 Eproboscidcous and (Estrideous Insects, by Dr Leach of the Bri- 

 tish Museum. On the Genus Falco of Linnseus, by Mr James 

 Wilson. On the Irish Testacea, by Captain Brown. On the 

 causes of Organization, by Dr Barclay.— Miiheralogy. On the 

 Geognosy of the Lothians, by Professor Jameson. Description of 

 the Cartiane Craig in Lanarkshire, of the Vicinity of Loch-Lo- 

 mond, and of Ravenshengh in East Lothian, by Dr MacknighL 

 Description of the Redhead in Forfarshire, by Dr plcming. Mi- 

 neralogical observations in Galloway, by Dr Grierson. 



A history of the proceedings of the Society, from its origin to 

 the present time, is subioined ; and also an Index to both the 8vo 

 Yolumes. 



