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Art. XXIV, — Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History 
Society, Continued from p. 165. 
With Dec. 1825.— T* HE Secretary read, 1. A paper by Mr 
John Murray, Lecturer on Chemistry, detailing some curious 
experiments and observations made by him on the varying tem- 
perature of the Chameleon, as connected with the changes of 
colour exhibited by the animal ; — 2. A notice by P. J. Selby, 
Esq. of Twizell House, regarding a specimen of the rare La- 
rus minutus shot in Galloway ; and, 3. A communication from 
Dr T. S. Traill of Liverpool, regarding the use of oil of tur- 
pentine for preserving zoological specimens in cabinets. (See 
p. 135. of this volume.) 
At the same meeting, Professor Jameson read, 1. A notice 
of Zircon having been in primitive rocks in the island of Scal- 
pay, by Mr William Nicol, Lecturer on Natural Philosophy ; 
(printed in this volume, p. 138. et seq .) ; 2. Mr William Mac- 
gillivray’s account of the animals of the classes Cirripeda , Con- 
chfera , and Mollusca, , observed in the Island of Harris ; and, 
3. A letter from Mr Meynell of Yarm, Yorkshire, on chang- 
ing the habits of Fishes, and mentioning that he had, for four 
years past, kept the smelt or spirling (Saimo Eperlanus, Lin.) 
m a fresh-water pond, having no communication with the sea, 
by means of the Tees or otherwise, and that the smelts had 
continued to thrive and breed as freely as when they enjoy in- 
tercourse with the sea. 
14 th Jan. 1826.— Professor Jameson read Mr Cormack’s 
History of the Geographical Distribution and economical uses 
of some Fishes on the Banks of Newfoundland, with an ac- 
count of the Great Seal Fishery of that station. Part of Mr 
Thomas Buchanan’s essay on the Comparative Anatomy of the 
Organ of Hearing, was then read. (See p. 71. of this volume.) 
Dr Knox, Lecturer on Anatomy, then read his account of 
the anatomy of the Wombat of Flinders. 
At the same meeting, specimens of the Japan Peacock and 
Peahen, and of the galeated and undulated Hornbills, were 
exhibited and described by Professor Jameson ; and Dr Fie- 
