HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. 
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New South Wales, treating more particularly of the Organs 
of Generation. 
David Falconar, Esq. V. P. in the chair — There was 1828. 
read a notice of the Wasting Effects of the Sea, which have ^* 
exposed a submarine forest on the shores of Cheshire, be- 
tween the rivers Mersey and Dee, by Robert Stevenson, 
Esq, civil engineer. — Mr G. A. W. Arnott read two me- 
moirs : 1. On the Mines of the Higher Pyrenees; On 
the Marbles of the Higher Pyrenees. — The Secretary read 
a communication from the Reverend John Macvicar, A.M. 
of St Andrew's, describing a rare fish, the Forked Hake of 
Pennant, which had been cast ashore near St Andrev/s in a 
storm. A drawing of the fish, made by Mr Macvicar, was 
exhibited to the meeting — Mr Deuchar, lecturer on che- 
mistry, then read a notice of keeping entire the Crystals of 
Efflorescent and also of Deliquescent Salts, by means of 
surrounding them with an atmosphere formed from an es- 
sential oil, such as oil of turpentine. 
David Falconar, Esq. V. P. in the chair. — The Rev. Mar. 22. 
Dr Scot of Corstorphine read a paper on the Great Fish 
that swallowed up Jonah, and, after three days and nights, 
cast him out on dry land ; shewing that it could not be a 
whale, as often supposed, but was probably a Squalus Car- 
charias, or White Shark. — At this meeting was also read 
the first part of a memoir on the Lunar Compass, &c. by 
Mark Watt, Esq. 
Patrick Small Keir, Esq. formerly V. P. in the chair. — April 5. 
Mr Mark Watt read the remainder of his paper on the 
Lunar Compass. — The Reverend Dr Scot read a memoir 
on the Shefifon of Moses, Gen. xhx. 17, or the 'Adder' of 
the English translators. — And the Secretary read a notice 
