182 Proceedings of the Wernerian Society. 
by Dr Francis Hamilton, 1 ’ which was remitted to the Committee 
for publishing the Memoirs of the Society. 
A letter from Mr James Fotheringham, Gairney Bridge, was 
then read, giving a general account of the shower of small fishes 
supposed to have fallen in the west of Fifeshire, in the summer 
of 1824. 
Mr John Deuchar, lecturer on chemistry, communicated to 
the Society some observations on the applicability of Mr Gor- 
don’s portable gas-lamp as a blowpipe ; at the same time shew- 
ing its practical use for that purpose, and likewise exhibiting the 
remarkable experiment of a column of condensed gas support- 
ing a mahogany ball, though striking it at an angle with the 
horizon. 
April 2. — The Secretary read a short 44 Notice regarding the 
Magnetism of the Earth f by the late Lieutenant Mathew Mil- 
ler of the 56th Regiment ; which notice Mr Adie, optician, il- 
lustrated by an experiment shewing, the effect of magnetic bars, 
placed with N. and S. ends together, upon a compass passed 
over them. 
Professor Jameson read an account of the recent discovery of 
a large portion of a tusk of the Mammoth or fossil British Ele- 
phant, in a bed of old alluvium, containing also marine shells, 
and situate near to Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. 
Dr R. E. Grant then read an account of a particular organ 
observed by him in the Cuttle-fish ( Sepia Loligo , Z.J, and 
which lie regards as analogous to the pancreas of the more per- 
fect animals. The Doctor, at the same time, laid before the 
meeting several specimens of the cuttle-fish (which happened at 
this time to be abundant in the Frith of Forth), with the organ 
in question dissected, and injected. 
April 16. — There was laid before the meeting, a drawing and 
description of a species of Cephalus , allied to the Tetrodon trun - 
catus of Cuvier, communicated by Dr Traill of Liverpool. 
Professor Jameson read and explained to the Society Mr 
David Mylne’s 44 Descriptive account of the stratification on the 
right hank of the Whit adder? 
Dr Grierson of Cockpen, read an 44 Account of the Explosion 
of Stohhs Powder Mills , on the 11th of February last f and 
the Secretary read a short notice of some circumstances attend- 
