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Notice of certain Remarkable Laws connected with the 
Oscillations of Flexible Pendulums : With Illus- 
trative Experiments. By Edward Sang, Esq., . 255 
Donations to the Library, .... 257 
Monday , \6th January 1860. 
Suggested Explanation of Messrs Carrington and Hodgson’s 
recently observed Solar Phenomenon. By Professor 
C. Piazzi Smyth, .... 258 
On the Fallacy of the Present Mode of Estimating the 
Mean Temperature in England. By James Stark, 
M.D., ...... 264 
Description of the Plant which produces the Ordeal Bean 
of Calabar. By Professor Balfour, . . 265 
Donations to the Library, . . . .266 
Monday , 6th February 1860, 
On the Capture of Whales with the aid of Poison. By Dr 
Christison, . . . . .270 
Notice regarding the Branchial Sac of the Simple Ascidise. By 
Andrew Murray, . . . .271 
Donations to the Library, . . . .272 
Monday , 20 th February 1860. 
On the Action of Uncrystallised Films upon Common and 
Polarised Light. By Sir David Brewster, K.H., 
F.R.S., . . . . . 273 
On Mr Darwin’s Theory of the Origin of Species. By 
Andrew Murray, . . . .274 
Donations to the Library, .... 292 
Monday , 5th March 1860. 
On the Utmost Horizontal Distance which can be Spanned 
by a Chain of a given Material. By Edward Sang, 
Esq., ...... 292 
On the Climate of Edinburgh for Fifty-six Years, from 
1795 to 1850, deduced principally from Mr Adie’s 
Observations ; with an Account of other and earlier 
Registers. — On the Climate of Dunfermline, from the 
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