SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS 
TO THE 
GENERAL MEETINGS. 
March 2_, 1841.— James Hamerton^ Esq. of Hellifield Peel, read 
a Paper on the best methods of planting and procuring Forest Treesp 
which he illustrated by specimens of different varieties of Timber in 
their several states of perfection and decay. 
April 6.—Observations on a Roman Sepulchral Monument, in the 
Museum of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by O^^Callaghan, Esq. Assistant- 
Surgeon, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards. 
May 4.““Meteorological Observations made at York, by John 
Ford. 
Jan. 4, 1842.— The Rev. John Graham, V. P., read a Paper, 
containing his own Observations on the Geology of Boulogne-sur-Mer, 
and the opposite coast of Sussex. 
