Presidents Address. 
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Dr Traill, Dr Dewar, Mr Swainson, Mr Edmonston, Dr Knox, 
Mr Selby, Dr Hibbert, Dr Richardson, Mr Coldstream, Rev. 
David Scot, Mr William Jardine, Mr Parnell, Dr Grant, Mr 
Macgillivray, Dr Craigie, Mr J. Duncan, and Mr Edward For- 
bes. In Meteorology — Rev. Dr Scoresby. In Physical Science 
-—Mr Stevenson, Dr Brewster, Mr Adie, and Mr Deuchar. 
The Society continued to hold meetings with more or less 
regularity up to 1850 ; and I have drawn up from its records 
the following notices, in continuation of its published pro- 
ceedings : — - 
On the 11th August 1838, the Society proposed to encour- 
age the study of Natural History, by the offer of premiums 
for the best essays on certain subjects in Hydrography, 
Geology, Zoology, and Botany. These were subsequently 
advertised. 
The thirty-second session of the Society vfas opened on 
24th November 1838, by Professor Jameson ; and on the 
15th December of that year, papers were read by Dr Traill 
on the € heir other ium ; and by Sir John Dalyell on a singu- 
lar mode of propagation in some of the lower animals ; besides 
communications on the Geology of Melrose and Earlston, and 
on Meteorology. 
On 12th January 1839, Professor Jameson exhibited Lah- 
rus trimaculatus and Gadus minutus, two rare fishes which 
had been found in the Pentland Firth ; and the carcass of a 
large cinereous eagle, " being one of the two birds of that kind 
which had the boldness to attack a traveller near Newton- 
Stewart in Galloway." 
On 26th January 1839, Mr Smith of Jordanhill read obser- 
vations on the elevated marine deposits in the basin of the 
Clyde, accompanied with remarks by Deshayes, Lyell, and 
Sowerby, on the shells unknown as British imbedded in 
them, from which it appeared that, out of twenty species, 
seven are at present to be found recent in the Arctic Seas, five 
in the Crag and Sicilian Newer Pliocene, and that the rest 
are peculiar to the deposit in question. Edward Forbes was 
proposed as a member by Professor Jameson, and his nomi- 
nation was seconded by Dr Neill. He was admitted on 9th 
February. At the same meeting, Professor Wallace explained 
