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paper is printed in the present Number of this Journal-, p. 197. 
et seq.l 
At this meeting the following communications were also readi 
4. Notice of the occurrence of Mineral Pitch in Primitive 
rocks in Ross-shire ; bj Mr Witham of Lartington. 2. Account 
of fossil-trees found in secondary trap-rocks at CJeghorn in. 
Lanarkshire, illustrated by specimens ; by Mr John Baird. 3. 
Notices regarding the Rhinoceros’ horns of Blair-Drummond, 
tending to shew that they may probably be regarded as having 
occurred in the blue clay of that district ; by Mr A. B. Black- 
adder, Allan Park. 4. Account of some remarkable fossilized 
trunks and branches of trees found in a quarry near Cold- 
stream ; fine specimens of which were exhibited. 
At this meeting, the following gentlemen were admitted mem- 
bers : 
RESIDENT : 
Henry Englefield, Esq, 
William Gibson Thomson, Esq. 
NON-RESIDENT I 
Dr Colin Rogers, 
Richard Davie, Esq. 
Joseph Mitchell, Esq. 
FOREIGN ; 
Professor Hansteen of Christiania. 
Professor Rathke of Christiania. 
Feh. 19. — The Secretary gave a general account of two com- 
munications received from Captain Franklin, viz. 1. Tables of 
Summer Temperature observed in Spitzhergen ; and, % Table 
of the Temperature of the Sea at various depths^ made during 
the voyage to Spitzhergen. [Both these interesting tables are 
given in the present Number of this Journal, pp. 232, 234.] 
There were then read, 1 . Account of fossil-trees, &c. found 
imbedded in the clay strata near Harwich, by Mr William 
Knott, Landguard Fort ; 2. Notice in regard to a collection of 
buried trees, apparently native species, lately discovered in the 
course of draining a peat-moss in West Lothian, in a letter from 
Mr Logan of Clarkstone, to Mr A, Blackadder.— Professor 
Jameson gave an account of a sandstone cast of a large fossil 
tree or arboreous stemmed plant, lately found in the quarry at 
Cullalo in Fife; the specimen being at the same time exhibited. 
