HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY, 



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The Secretary read a notice concerning a new 

 animal, allied to the Goat and Sheep, which in- 

 habits the Stony Mountains to the south-west of 

 Hudson's Bay, two skins of which were some time 

 ago presented to Professor Jameson by Mr Auld of 

 Churchhill Fort, Hudson's Bay; together with a 

 letter from Mr Laurie, on the quality of the wool 

 which covers a great part of the animal. Professor 

 Jameson then communicated to the Society a series 

 of new views concerning the formation of Mountains 

 and Valleys on the surface of the earth, on the ge- 

 neral principles of Crystallization. 



1818. 

 March 7. 

 Secretary's 

 Report on 

 the Stony- 

 Mountain 

 Sheep ; and 

 Professor 

 Jameson on 

 the Forma- 

 tion of 

 Mountains 

 and Valleys 

 by Crystalli- 

 zation, 



The Secretary read a report from Mr Thomas 

 Laurie, relative to the fleece of the Rocky Moun- 

 tain Sheep, sent from Hudson's Bay by Mr Auld. 

 Also a communication from Captain Carmichael, of 

 notices connected with the Natural History of Birds 

 and Fishes, observed in warm latitudes, and a Re- 

 gister of the Temperature of the Sea and Atmo- 

 sphere, kept in a voyage from the Cape of Good 

 Hope to Bengal, and back again. Professor Jame- 

 son then communicated to the Society, some re- 

 marks on the probable state of the Polar Ice, 

 founded on the observations of Captain Scoresby, 

 and on the paramount pretensions of that scientific 

 navigator to the consideration of the Government 

 of the country in the projected voyage of discovery 

 to the North Pole. Mr Bullock exhibited to the 

 Society, a specimen of the Rose-coloured Thrush, 



1818. 

 March 2l. 

 Mr Laurie's 

 Report on 

 Rocky 

 Mountain 

 Sheep. 



Captain Car- 

 michael, 

 Natural His- 

 tory No- 

 tices, and 

 Journal of 

 Tempera- 

 ture of Sea 

 and Air. 



Professor 

 Jameson on 

 the Polar 

 Ice. 



Specimen of 

 the Rose- 

 coloured 



