APPENDIX. 
HISTORY 
OF THE 
SOCIETY. 
{Continued from Vol. V. p. 583.) 
HoBEiiT Bald, Esq. Vice-President, in the chair.— -There 1826. 
was read Mr Cormack^s History of the Geographical Dis- ^ ' 
tribiition and Economical Uses of sonie kinds of Fishes on 
the banks of Newfoundland, with an account of the great 
Seal Fishery on that station. — Mr Thomas Buchanan^s pa- 
per on the Comparative Anatomy of the Organs of Vision 
and Hearing, illustrated by Drawings, was referred to 
the following members, as a committee, viz. Dr Barclay, 
Dr Knox, and Dr Grant. — Dr Robert Knox then read 
an account of the Anatomy of the Wombat of Flinders. 
— Dr John Fleming then exhibited a specimen of the 
Migratory Pigeon of North America, shot in Fife on the 
31st of December 1825 ; and argued, from the perfect state 
of the plumage, that the animal had not been in confine- 
ment, but had probably been wafted across the Atlantic by 
strong and continued westerly gales. 
