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ming of Flisk, exhibited a specimen of the Migratory Pigeon 
of North America, shot in Fife on 31st December last ; and 
shewed, from the perfect state of the plumage, that the ani- 
mal had not been in a state of confinement, but had probably 
been wafted across the Atlantic by strong and continued west- 
erly gales, 
28th Jan . — At this meeting, there was read an account of 
Highland Alluvium, being the concluding part of an essay on 
Sandfields, in which the author extended his observations to the 
summits of primitive mountains. 
Professor Jameson then read a communication, received 
from a foreign correspondent, on the probability that meteoric 
stones are formed in the atmosphere, and not derived from the 
moon, or any other extra-mundane source. — The Professor al- 
so shewed to the meeting several large specimens of Beryl from 
the Mountains of Morne in Iceland, and mentioned that they 
occur along with rock-crystal, in drusy cavities, in the granite 
composing these mountains. 
Art. XXV.— SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
ASTRONOMY. 
1. The Double Star , 61 Cygni . — It appears by the proceed- 
ings of the Royal Institute of France, that M. Arago lately made a 
report of his observations for investigating whether this remark- 
able double star had a visible parallax. He failed in discovering 
a sensible parallax. Dr Brinkley long observed this star for the 
same purpose, and found no parallax in declination ; and Mr 
Bessell also compared it with the neighbouring stars in right 
ascension, and his result was, that its parallax appeared even ne- 
gative, seeming to shew that it was more distant than those 
stars. Dr Brinkley states, in his Elementary Treatise of As- 
tronomy, “ I have made observations of the zenith distances, at 
the opposite seasons, to endeavour to discover any sensible pa- 
rallax in these stars, but there appears to be no sensible paral- 
lax.” The rapid motion of this pair of stars certainly would 
induce us to believe them nearer than other stars, but this 
