HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY 



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The Secretary read a communication from Cap- 

 tain Scoresby, on the Means of overcoming some of 

 the Difficulties to Discoveries in the Arctic Seas : 

 and Dr Hibbert gave a description of the Sienite 

 District of Shetland, in continuation of his general 

 account of the Geognosy of these Islands. 



Dr Hibbert gave an account of the Granite and 

 Sandstone Districts of Shetland ; and completed his 

 view of the Geognosy of these Islands, by some re- 

 marks on Papa Stour. 



The Secretary read a communication from Mr 

 Stewart, containing remarks on the Germination of 

 some kinds of Cryptogamous Plants, and a list of 

 some of the rarer Cryptogamous Plants which have 

 been lately found in the neighbourhood of Edin- 

 burgh, Likewise a description, illustrated by draw- 

 ings, of the Fossil Remains of a Cetaceous Ani- 

 mal found in slate-clay near Whitby, by the Reve- 

 rend George Young. 



1819. 

 April 3. 

 Captain 

 Scoresby on 

 Overcoming 

 Difficulties 

 to Discove- 

 ries in the 

 Arctic Seas ; 

 and Dr Hu- 

 bert's contin. 

 of hisAcount 

 of Shetland. 



April 10. 

 Conclusion 

 of Dr Hib- 

 bert's Geog- 

 nosy of Shet- 

 land. 



April 24. 

 Mr Stewart 

 on the Ger- 

 mination of 

 Cryptoga- 

 mousPlants; 

 and Rev. Mr 

 Young on a 

 Fossil Ani- 

 mal found 

 at Whitby. 



The Secretary read a memoir regarding the Evi- 

 dence of the Existence of the Beaver as a native 

 Quadruped of Scotland in former ages : and Mr 

 Bald read a paper on the Form of the Coal Forma- 

 tion in Great Britain, illustrated by numerous sec- 

 tions and specimens. 



May 1. 



Mr Neill on 

 the former 

 existence of 

 the Beaver 

 in Scotland ; 

 and Mr Bald 

 on the Coal 

 Formation. 



The Secretary read a communication from 

 Stewart, Lecturer on Botany, giving an account of c 



Dec. 11. 

 IVir Mr Stewart 



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