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APPENDIX. 
1824!. The Secretary read two communications relative to the 
discovery of the Bones of a Grampus or Small Whale, in 
the carse-clay, lying over black peat-moss, on the estate of 
Blair Drummond ; the one communication by Henry Home 
Drummond, Esq. M. P., and the other from Mr A. Black- 
adder, surveyor. There were likewise laid before the meeting, 
Meteorological Observations made at Guayaquil, from Ja- 
nuary to June 1824, by William Jameson, Esq. surgeon ; 
and Barometrical Observations between the Pacific Ocean 
and Mendoza, in the year 1821, by Dr Gillies. Dr Bar- 
clay presented a letter from Dr Mease of Philadelphia, ac- 
companying a specimen of the Siren lacertina, for the So- 
ciety's collection. 
Dec. 18. The Secretary read, 1^^, A communication from Dr 
Treviranus of Bremen, on the Cochlea of the Internal Ear 
of Birds ; 2c?, A Notice by Mr J. W. Reddoch of Falkirk, 
regarding the Bones of a Quadruped, found in a bed of 
clay, and of razor-shells found in a bed of sand under the 
clay, near Camelon, ninety feet above the present level of 
the Forth ; Sd, The description, by Dr Traill of Liverpool, 
of a New Species of Silurus, S. Parkeri, found in the river 
at Demerara, in 1821. 
Dr Knox read a short communication, shewing that the 
bones found in a bed of clay near Camelon, and ninety feet 
above the present level of the Forth, were those of a full 
grown seal, of the species still inhabiting the Frith of Forth. 
The first part of Dr Richardson's Remarks on the Climate 
and Vegetable Productions of the Hudson's Bay Countries, 
was then read. 
1825. 
Jan. 8. 
Jan. S2. 
The Secretai'Y read Dr Richardson's Observations on the 
