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Art. XXVIII. — Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edin^ 
hurgli. (Continued from p. 165.) 
June 17. Paper by the Reverend Dr Fleming of Flisk was 
read, entitled, On a Submarine Forest in the Frith of Tay, 
with Observations on the Formation of Submarine Forests in 
general.” 
This very interesting geological phenomenon is similar to 
the one observed on the coast of Lincolnshire, and described by 
Dr Joseph Correa de Serra in the Philosophical Transactions 
for 1799. It occurs on the south bank of the Frith of Tay, 
and has been .observed in detached portions on each side of 
Flisk Beach, to the extent of nearly three miles. After ex- 
plaining the general and particular appearance of this subma- 
rine forest. Dr Fleming proposes a very ingenious and ra- 
tional explanation of the way in which it has been formed, and 
he considers his explanation as equally applicable to the sub- 
marine forest of Mount Bay, Lincolnshire, and that on the 
west coast of Orkney described by Mr Watt of Skail in this 
Journal^ Vol. III. p. 101. 
The Royal Society adjourned till the 4th of November 182% 
Art-. XXIX. — Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural Mis-’ 
tory Society, (Continued from p. 167.) 
1822, May 4. — The Secretary read a communication from 
Lawrence Edmondston, Esq. of Shetland, on the Larus parasi- 
ticus or Arctic Gull: (This paper has already appeared in this 
Journal, p, 91. et seq. of this volume.) Mr John Stark then 
communicated some curious remarks regarding the habits of 
the Talpa Europsea or mole ; and Dr Grierson of Cockpen 
exhibited the model of a machine for extracting roots of trees, 
pr for similar purposes, invented by Mr John Fletcher of Bonny- 
rig, near Laswade. 
At the same meeting, the Reverend George Young of Whit- 
by being present, read an account of dilferent caverns in York- 
shire, recently discovered, which have been found to contain. 
