890 Proceedings of the Wernerian Society. 
May 17. — The Secretary read Professor Hansteen’s Observa- 
tions made on a Journey from Christiania to Bergen , across 
the high mountains. Dr Knox read a Memoir on the Organs 
of Sense , and the Anatomy of the Poison-Gland and Spur , of 
the Orniihorynchus paradoxus of New Holland. Dr Hibbert 
read a Notice regarding a Mineral lately found at Papa 
Stour in Shetland. And Mr Parry exhibited the Fossil Head 
of a very large Wild Boar, found imbedded in a peat-moss in 
Berkshire. 
May 31. — The Secretary read, 1. Mr Wilkinson’s Memoir 
on the Geographical Distribution of Plants in Yorkshire ; 2. 
Dr Thomas Barne’s Biographical Notice of Mary Noble of 
Penrith , now in the 107 th year of her age , with some general 
remarks on Longevity ; and, 3. Dr T. S. Traill’s Description 
of anew species of Regains (Motacilla) from Brazil , illustrated 
by a drawing. 
At the same meeting, Professor Jameson read the Rev. H. F. 
Borgesen’s Description of Vettie's Giel , a very remarkable and 
nearly inaccessible dell in Norway. (This paper is printed in 
the present number of the Journal, p. 299. et seq.) 
June 14. — The Secretary read, 1. The continuation of Dr 
Fleming’s Voyage round the North of Scotland in 1821 ; 2. 
Notices regarding the Migration of the Woodcock , by Major 
Morrison; and, 3. A Memoir on the power possessed by some 
species of Spiders of ascending into the air, * .by Mr John Mur- 
ray, F. L. S. 
There were then communicated to the Society the results of a 
series of Themometrical Observations made hourly at Leith, 
during twenty four successive hours, once every month, from July 
1822 to July 1823, by Mr Coldstream of Leith, assisted by his 
sister. 
At the same meeting, Professor Jameson read Dr Boue’s 
answer to M. Beudant’s opinion regarding the crystalline rocks 
of the Red Sandstone formation, as explained in the 3d volume 
of his “ Voyages en Hongrie.” Also, the first part of a learned 
and elaborate Commentary on the <c Herbarium Amboinense,” 
by Dr Francis Hamilton of Leny. 
The Society adjourned its meetings till November, 
