Observations made at Leith. 181 
May has been rather a pleasant month, but cold. Nothing of any import- 
ance occurred. 
Note By mistake, the quantities of Bain for January and February were 
stated in last Number of Journal too high ; they ought to have been, — in Ja- 
nuary 1,406 ; February, 0,860 inches. 
Art. XXV . — Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History 
Society. (Continued from Vol. XII. p. 402.) 
1825, March 5. — TL here was read a communication from 
the Reverend George Young, Secretary to the Literary and 
Philosophical Society of Whitby, describing the remains of a 
genuine, though now extinct, species of Crocodile , 18 feet long, 
lately found imbedded in the secondary rocks near Whitby. 
There was at the same time exhibited a correct drawing of the 
animal, executed by Mr Bird, an artist of Whitby, favourably 
known to the public by his drawings illustrative of the Geologi- 
cal Survey of Yorkshire. (Mr Young’s paper is printed in the 
present number of this Journal, p. 76. et seq. ; and Mr Bird’s 
drawing is copied upon Plate III.) 
Dr Robert Edmond Grant then read the remainder of his first 
memoir, containing a “ Series of observations and experiments 
on the Natural History of Sponges (This first memoir is 
printed in the present number of this Journal, p. 94. et seq.) 
A very perfect sandstone cast of an extinct exotic plant, re- 
sembling some species of Cactus, lately found in the course of 
the operations at the celebrated sandstone-quarry of Craigleith, 
near Edinburgh, was exhibited to the meeting, and described 
by Professor Jameson. 
March 19- — Dr John Yule communicated to the meeting a 
short account of the <fc effect produced by the presence of the larva 
of a Dipterous Insect in the human stomach (This paper is 
printed in the present number of this Journal, pp. 72-75 ) 
The Secretary then read Mr George Cheyne’s “ Journal 
from Madeira to Lat. 18° 06' N, and Long. 88° 20' W.” He 
also gave an account of a learned and elaborate paper, entitled, 
64 Commentary on the second book of the Herbarium Amboinense , 
