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Art. XXVI . — Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edhibu 7 'gh, 
(Continued from last Number, p. 175.) 
Jan. 8. 1825.— i HE following paper was read : On the Dis^ 
yersion of Stony fragments remote from their native beds, as 
displayed in a statum of Loam near Manchester, by Dr Hib- 
bert. 
Jan. 17. There were read, 1. Description of Fergusonitc, a 
new Mineral Species, by Mr Haidinger. 2. Extracts from a 
Journal of Travels through part of Persia, by James Baillie 
Fraser, Esq. 
Feb. 7‘ — There were read, 1. A Memoir on a singular Bloch 
of Stone, occupying the Summit of a Hill at Dunkeld, ,by Ur 
MacCulloch. 2. Description of Withamite, a new Mineral Spe- 
cies found in Glenco, by Dr Brewster. 
Feb. 21. There were read, 1. Account of a Sepidchral Urn, 
containing fragments of Bones, and a Boar’s Tusk, found near 
the village of Rathen, in Aberdeenshire, by John Gordon, Esq. 
of Cairnbulgh. 2. Description of a New Photometer, with its 
application, by Mr William Ritchie, A. M. Rector of the Aca- 
demy of Tain. 8. On the first introduction of Greeh Litera- 
ture into England efter the Darh Ages, by Patrick Eraser 
Tytler, Esq. 
Art. XXVII . — Proceedings cf the Wernerian Natural His- 
tory Society. (Continued from p. 176.) 
meeting were read, 1. A com- 
munication from Dr Treviranus of Bremen, On the Cochlea of 
the Internal Ear of Birds; 2. Notice by Mr J. W. Reddoch of 
Falkirk, regarding the bones of a quadruped found in a bed of 
clay, and of razor-shells found in a bed of sand under the clay, 
near Camelon, 90 feet above the present level of the Fortli ; 8. 
Description, by Dr Traill of Liverpool, of a new species of Si- 
Jurus, A. Parlceri, found in the river at Demerara in 1821 . 
