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Mr Charles Anderson of Leith presented to the meeting an 
improved measure, for ascertaining small quantities of liquids 
with expedition and accuracy. 
Professor Jameson then communicated extracts of letters, gi- 
ving a general account of discoveries made by Capt. Scoresby, 
during the last summer and autumn, on the east coast of West 
Greenland ; he having explored a stretch of about 800 miles of 
that almost unknown region. He found the coast totally un- 
like that laid down in our best charts, and differing very widely 
in its position. He was within 200 miles of the presumed site 
of the lost colony. He every where remarked traces of inhabi- 
tants, without seeing any. He found on some parts of the coast 
a line of open sea, about 20 miles broad, but in others the main 
ice was very near the shore. — The Professor then read an ac- 
count of a new species of Lophius (L. Histrio), from the West 
Indies, by the Reverend Mr Guilding of St Vincent’s ; and he 
also communicated a notice of a mammoth’s tusk, feet long, 
dug up at Rugby in Warwickshire, the tusk being at the same 
time exhibited. 
At this meeting the following gentlemen were elected office- 
bearers of the Society for the ensuing year : 
Robert Jameson, Esq. President. 
Robert Stevenson, Esq. 
David Falconar, Esq. 
Dr David Ritchie, 
Rev. Principal Baird, 
Pat. Neill, Esq. Secretary. Wm. Ellis, Esq. Treasurer. 
James Wilson, Esq. Librarian. P. Syme, Esq. Painter. 
Council. 
Dr Samuel Hibbert. R. K. Greville, Esq. 
P. Small Keir, Esq. Sir William Jardine, Bart. 
Robert Bald, Esq. Rev. James Grierson, M. D. 
Professor Dunbar. Professor Graham. 
At this meeting, also, the following gentlemen were elected 
members. 
Ordinary. 
The Rev. Dr D. Scott of Corstorphine. G. A. Walker Arnott^ Esq. A. M. 
Non-Resident. 
Hercules Scott, Esq. Prof. Moral Phil, in the Univ. and King’s College, Aberdeen* 
The Rev, Lansdown Guilding, B. A. F. L. S. &c. of the Island of St Vincent’s. 
Captain William Edward Parry, R. N. 
Captain William Franklin, R. N. 
' John Richardson, M. D. Naturalist to the American Land Expedition. 
Alexander Fisher, Esq, R. N. Surgeon, at present with Captain Parry. 
^■Vice-Presidents. 
