886 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, with remarks on his History of Scot- 
land 
On the same evening a notice was read by Dr Macdonald, 
66 respecting the formation of solid Chalcedonic Nodules in Trap 
Rocks 
Mar. 3. — Dr Hibbertread a paper u On the Physical Causes 
which have given rise to the popular belief in Apparitions 
At the same meeting a paper by Dr Brewster was read, <s On 
the existence of a New Fluid , possessing remarkable Physical 
Properties , in the cavities of certain Minerals .” A notice of 
this paper will be found in our Scientific Intelligence, p. 400. 
At this meeting the following gentlemen were elected Mem- 
bers : 
Sir James Stuart, Bart, of Allanbank. John Bonar, Esq, 
Sir Andrew Halliday, Knight, Physician Alexander Waddell, Esq. 
to His R. H. the Duke of Clarence. 
Art. XX . — Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History 
Society . — (Continued from p. 182.) 
Bee. 14. 1822.— At this meeting, a paper by the Reverend 
Dr Fleming of Flisk was read, containing “ Observations on sub- 
jects connected with Natural History , made in a Voyage round 
the North of Scotland, in the autumn of 1821.” (The first part 
of this paper is printed in the present number of this Journal, 
p. 294. et scq.) There was likewise read, an “ Account of a Ma- 
rine deposit , observable among the foetz strata on the margin 
of Loch Lomond? by Mr James Adamson. And Professor 
Jameson gave an account of a fine specimen (which was exhi- 
bited to the meeting) of the Zeus Luna or King Fish , lately 
taken in the Frith of Forth. 
Dec. 28. — The Secretary read the first part of the “ Journal of 
a Visit to the Summit of Adam! s Peak , the highest mountain of 
Ceylon ? by Mr Henry Marshall, staff-surgeon. Mr Greville 
then read an a Account of the Esculent Fungi of Great Britain ■? 
Dr Knox read a “ Notice relative to the Habits of the Hyaenas of 
Southern Africa? shewing that they are not in the practice of 
conveying their prey into their dens: and Dr Yule communi- 
