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cated Specimens of Maize, ripened in Scotland, in the garden of 
North Dairy mple. Esq. and made some observations on the prac- 
ticability of naturalizing that grain. 
At this meeting, the following presents were laid on the table : 
44 Abstracts of the Population Returns f in a large volume folio, 
presented to the Society by order of Government ; and the Ame- 
rican System of Mineralogy , &c. by Mr Parker Cleaveland, two 
vols. 8vo. 
Jan. 11 . 1828. — The Secretary read the second and concluding 
part of an 44 Account of a Journey to Adam's Peak in Ceylon f 
by Mr Marshall, staff-surgeon. Likewise an 44 Extract of a Letter 
from the Reverend William Dunbar of Applegarth , to Principal 
Baird," detailing experiments and observations which confirm 
the doctrines of Schirach and Huber, respecting the conversion 
of common larvae into queen-bees, in particular circumstances. 
The Secretary also read a 64 Proposal for an Improvement in the 
form of Cannon-balls , cdlcidated to communicate the advantages 
of projecting them from a Rifled Barrel ,” by Mathew Miller, 
Esq. of the 51st regiment. 
Dr Hibbert then read an 44 Additional Account of the Expe- 
dients resorted to by a Boy in Cheshire , to supply the deficiency of 
Fore-arms and Hands f and presented a portrait of the boy. 
Mr Innes of Stow exhibited to the meeting some admirable 
specimens, dated 44 Edinburgh, 1728,” of Drawings and orna- 
mental Penmanship, by Matthew Buckinger, a person who was 
destitute of hands and feet. 
Jan. 25. — The Secretary read a notice by Mr James Adam- 
son, regarding the principles on which the motion is communi- 
cated to steam-vessels. Also, a paper on the identity, considered 
as species, of the Golden and the Ringtailed Eagles, by Mr P. J. 
Selby of Twizel-House. 
Professor Jameson read an 44 Account of a remarkable Thunder 
Storm in Berwickshire in the course of which, all surrounding 
objects assumed the colour of copper. He then exhibited the 
Horn of a Rhinoceros, found in digging marl at the Loch of For- 
far, and stated reasons for believing it to have belonged to a species 
of rhinoceros which had formerly inhabited this island. He next 
laid before the meeting, the skeleton , and also the stuffed skin, 
of the Dugong of Singapour , an animal allied to the porpesse, 
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