HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. 
read a paper by l)r Fleming of Flisk, on the Insufficiency 
of the Evidence of a Milder Climate having formerly pre- 
vailed in the Arctic Regions.-— The Rev. Dr Scot of Cor- 
storphine then read an essay, entitled, The Natural History 
of the Bee, illustrated from the Sacred Writings. — The 
Secretary next read a notice contained in a letter from Mr 
Stuart Menteath, younger of Closeburn, to Prof. Jameson, 
regarding the Breeding of the Emu of New Holland, at 
North Cray, near London. — Prof. Jameson read extracts 
of a letter from Lieutenant Alexander of Chatham to Prof, 
Wallace, giving an account of a Deposite of Bones of the 
ancient Ox and Deer, found in a chalk cave. — At this meet- 
ing a fine Skeleton of a recent Elk, from Lapland, was ex- 
hibited ; and the President pointed out the difference be- 
tween the existing Elk and the Fossil Species found in Ire- 
land and Isle of Man. 
Dr Walter Adam, V. P. in the chair. — Mr Henry W^i- i829. 
tham read a paper on the Red Sandstone of Scotland, il- ^^^^ ^ 
lustrating his remarks by specimens of the New and of the 
Old Red Sandstone, and shewing that Coal may be found 
under the former, but cannot be expected under the latter. 
— The Rev. Dr Scot then read an essay on the Honey of 
the Land of Canaan. — Mr Mark Watt exhibited and de- 
scribed his Instrument for measuring the different deofrees 
of Solar Magnetic Intensity. — The Secretary read a Report 
by Mr Robert Spittal and Mr Robert Stevenson jun. rela- 
tive to the nature of the Impression left on soft clay by the 
feet of the common pig, both on a horizontal surface and 
on an inclined plane, proving that the impression is mult- 
ungulated, not bisulcated. 
Dr Adam, V. P. in the chair.— The Secretary read part ^^^^.^^ 
of Dr Murray's account of the Botany of the LTpper Dis- 
