17^ Proceedings of' the Wernerian Natural History Society. 
Foueign. ' 
The Rev. Thomas Macculloch of Pictou. 
Corresponding. 
Mr William Macgillivray. 
Dec. 13. Dr Knox read a paper on the kidneys, urinary blad- 
der, and organs of generation in the male of the Ornithorynchus 
paradoxus, illustrating his description by sketches. Dr Yule 
gave an account of the changes produced on some tallow-candles, 
accidentally preserved in a dry state for near a century, and ex- 
hibited specimens. Mr Greville read an account of Mr Cor- 
mack’s Journey across Newfoundland, in the autumn of 1822. 
(This interesting communication is printed in the present num- 
ber of this Journal p. 156., and illustrated by a map, construct- 
ed by Mr Cormack.) 
At the same meeting. Professor Jameson gave an account of 
thermometric and hygrometric observations made at Port Cal- 
lao in South America, by Mr William Jameson, surgeon ; and 
read extracts of a letter, written fron Funchal, by Mr Bowdich, 
the African traveller. 
Art. XXX. — Proceedings c^the Cambridge Philosophical So- 
ciety, for 1823. (Continued from Vol. VIII. p. 388.) 
Feb. 17. — A communication was read from J. Hogg, B. A., 
F. L. S., and Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; 
giving the description of an Oolitic Bed in the Magnesian lime- 
stone, formation, at Hartlepool in the county of Durham. 
A letter was read from W. J. Banks, M. A., Fellow of the 
Cambridge Philosophical Society, M. P. for the University, ac- 
companying a description of the late earthquake at Aleppo, 
transmitted to Mr Banks, by Mr Salt from Alexandria. 
A paper was read from B. Sevan, Esq., containing an ac- 
count of some experiments on the vibrations of strings, by which 
it appears that the times of their vibrations agree with those 
deduced from theory, by Dr Smith and others. 
Ma/rch 3. — W. Whewell, M. A., Fellow of Trinity College, 
read a notice of some mathematical calculations, proceeding on 
Mr Ampere’s theory of Electro-Magnetism, or, as the author 
