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Art. H'KNl.^Proceedlngs of the Wernerian Natural His- 
toi'y Society. 
18S1, Nov. 17.— Secretary read two communications 
from Captain Scoresby ,* one containing further remarks 
on the impregnation of pieces of wood by sea-water, when sunk 
to great depths ; and the other on the cause of the fogs preva- 
lent in the Greenland seas. (These communications have al- 
ready appeared in the present volume of this Journal, pp. 115.— 
118.) 
At the same meeting were read, 1. A letter from Mr George 
Anderson of Inverness, stating correctly the boundaries of a 
small district of Primitive Rocks, near Stromness in Orkney, 
the remainder of the islands being wholly of secondary formation : 
2. A letter from Dr Oudney, mentioning the principal objects of 
his exploratory voyage to Africa ; and, 3. A letter from Dr 
Richardson, the naturalist attached to the overland Arctic Ex- 
pedition, giving an account of the geognostic features of the 
country which had been traversed. 
Dec. 1. — Professor Jameson gave a general account of a pa- 
per on the Crystallizations of Copper-pyrites, by M. Haidinger 
of Freyberg. This will appear in the next part of the Society's 
Memoirs, which the Council has recommended, for the future, 
to be published half yearly, in April and November. 
Dec. 15. — The Secretary read, 1. A notice regarding the 
Fossil Animal of Whitby, contained in a letter from the Reve- 
rend George Young to Professor Jameson : % Meteorological 
Observations made during a residence of some years on the 
north side of Jamaica, by Dr Arnold ; and, 3. Observations on 
the Temperature of the Ocean at different depths ; on the In- 
dications of the Weather afforded by the barometer off the 
Cape of Good Hope; and on the Under Currents observable 
in the deep sea, generally flowing in a direction different from 
those of the surface, by Captain Wauchope, R. N. At the 
same meeting. Dr Y ule read some remarks on an undescribed 
species of Rotang from Ceylon, of which he exhibited a speci- 
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