APPENDIX. 
HISTORY 
OF THE 
SOCIETY 
( Continued from Vol, IV. p. 585.) 
JL HE Secretary read a memoir on the Geographical Dis- 1823. 
tribution of Plants in Yorkshire, by Mr Atkinson ; also, a 
Biographical Notice of Mary Noble of Penrith, in the 
107th year of her age ; with some Remarks on Longevity, 
by Dr Thomas Barnes : and a Description of a New Spe- 
cies of Regulus from Brazil, accompanied with a Drawing, 
by Dr Traill. Professor Jameson then read the Reverend 
H. F. Borgesen's Description of Vettie's Giel, a striking 
scene in Norway. 
The Secretary read, 1^^, The Continuation of Dr Fie- jurc ' 
ming's Voyage round the North of Scotland, in 1821 ; 2cZ, 
Notice regarding the Migration of the Woodcock, by Ma- 
jor Morrison ; Sd, The first part of a Paper on the power 
possessed by some species of Spiders of ascending into the 
air, by Mr John Murray, F. L. S., Lecturer on Chemistry. 
