<\ PROCEEDINGS 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
SESSION 1869-70. 
CONTENTS. 
Monday , 6th December 1869. 
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Opening Address. Session 1869-70. By the Hon. Lord 
Heaves, Vice-President, .... 2 
Monday , 2 Oth December 1869. 
On the Geological Structure of some Alpine Lake-Basins. 
By Archibald Geikie, Esq., F.B.S., . . . 33 
Preliminary Notice of the Great Pin Whale, recently 
stranded at Longniddry. By Professor Turner, . 34 
Note on Aggregation in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital. By 
Dr Matthews Duncan, . . . 1 38 
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Monday , 3 d January 1870. ‘ 
On a Method of Economising our Currency. By Andrew 
Coventry, Esq., . . . 39 
On the Old Biver Terraces of the Earn and Teith, viewed 
in connection with certain Geological Arguments for 
the Antiquity of Man. By the Bev. Thomas Brown, 
Edinburgh, .... . . 41 
Monday , 17 th January , 1870. 
Experiments on the Colorific Properties of Lichens. By 
W. Lauder Lindsay, M.D., E.B.S.E., F.L.S., . . 43 
On the Principles of Scientific Interpretation im Myths* 
with Special Beference to Greek Mythologyl 4§y Pro- 
fessor Blackie, . . . , 44 
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