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APPENDIX. 
1822. Memorandum. — The above Address, and a copy of the 
jgust 2 . Society''s Memoirs, were presented by Professor Jame- 
son, the President of the Society, to the King, at the 
Levee held by His Majesty at Holyroodhouse, on 
Saturday the 1 7th August, — most graciously received, 
and afterwards published in the Edinburgh Gazette 
of Friday 23d August. 
The Secretary read Mr L. Edmondston's List of Birds 
observed in the Shetland Islands, additional to those re- 
coi'ded by Authors : also Mr Don's paper on the Melasto- 
maceae, including Descriptions of Eleven new Genera. 
Dr Hibbert then gave an Account of the Natural Expe- 
dients resorted to by a Boy in Cheshire, for supplying the 
Want which he has sustained since Birth, of his Fore- Arms 
and Hands. The Secretary read two communications from 
Lord Gray, now in Italy, containing Notices of the Experi- 
ments of the Chevalier Morozi of Milan, on the Excitation 
of Heat by Friction, and on the Mode of soldering Broken 
Pieces of Cast-iron. Professor Jameson read a Letter 
from Dr Oudney, dated Mourzuk, in June last. 
Nov. 30= The Secretary read Mr Young's paper on the Mode in 
which the Remains of Quadrupeds may have been brought 
together in the Kirkdale Cavern, Yorkshire. Dr Charles 
Anderson read a Description of a new Drop -Measure. 
Professor Jameson then communicated Extracts of a Letter 
from Dr Traill of Liverpool, and from Capt. Scoresby jun. 
giving a General Account of Discoveries made by Captain 
Scoresby, during last summer and autumn, on the East 
Coast of West Greenland, he having explored a stretch of 
about 700 miles of nearly unknown coast. He was within 
: !200 miles of the presumed site of the lost colony : he every 
