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Portugal, Britain, and Norway ; while France, from lying far back, 
with the whole peninsula of Spain intervening between these winds 
and her, experienced to but a trifling extent their heating proper- 
ties, and consequently, though much further south, had a winter 
more severe than that in Britain. 
The following Gentlemen were duly elected Ordinary Fel- 
lows of the Society:— 
Willtam F. Skene, Esq. 
G. W. Hay, Esq. 
Robert Russell, Esq. 
Dr Fayrer. 
George Robertson, Esq. 
Dr Lyon Playfair, C.B. 
The following Donations to the Library were announced : — - 
The Lithology of Edinburgh, by Rev. John Fleming, D.D., F B.S.E. 
With a Memoir by the Bev. John Duns, Torphichen. 8vo. — - 
From the Publisher. 
Annales de l’Observatoire Physique Central de Bussie. Anna 
1855. Nos. land 2. 4to.- — From the Russian Government. 
Medico- Chirurgical Transactions. Vol. xli. 8vo. — From the Royal 
Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. 
Journal of Agriculture and Transactions of the Highland and Agri- 
cultural Society of Scotland. No. 63. 8vo.— From High- 
land Society. 
Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne. Udgives af den physiogra- 
phiske Forenung i Christiania ved M. Sars og Th. Kjerulf. 
Tiende Binds forte Heft. 8vo. — From Royal University of 
Norway , Christiania. 
Norges Historie i Kortfattet Udtog af P. A. Munch. Fierde Ud- 
gave. 8vo. — From the same. 
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Gamle Norske Folkeviser Udg. af Sopus Bugge. 8vo. — From the 
same. 
Kortfattet Beiledning af M. G. Fletting. 8vo. — From the same. 
Norges Gamle Love, indtil 138?. Ved B. Keyser og P. A. Munch 
1, 2, and 3 Binds. Folio. — From the Royal Society of 
Drontheim. 
Det Norske Sprogs vaesentligste Ordforrand Sammenlignet nud 
Sanskrit, &c. Af Chr. A. Holmboc. 8vo, — From the same. 
