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of Edinburgh, Session 1870-71. 
here, ran to the right hand, while the single spiral at top 
and bottom of the cone (dL) was left-handed. 
VIII. Series, l , 9 , ^ ’ Ac ' 
Echinocactus . 
IX. benes, g , j 
Echinocactus (A) . 
5 
X. Seiies, ^^, -^g , 09 ? &c. 
Cone of Pinus Pinaster , in Museum of Edinburgh Botanic 
Gfarden, f A"\ . 
Dr Dickson drew special attention to five flower spikes of 
Banhsia occidentalism which he had examined from the Edinburgh 
Botanic G-arden. These he found to exhibit four distinct arrange¬ 
ments. One had fourteen vertical rows of bracts, from alternate 
whorls of seven; two presented thirteen verticals, from a A 
arrangement; one had also thirteen verticals, but from a A 
arrangement; the fifth had twelve verticals, from a A arrange¬ 
ment. 
2. On the Old River Terraces of the Spey, viewed in con¬ 
nection with certain proofs of the Antiquity of Man. By 
the Rev. Thomas Brown, F.R.S.E. 
Abstract- 
The author referred to the paper which he had read on the ter¬ 
races of the Earn and Teith,* and then described similar deposits 
which he had observed last autumn on the Spey, giving examples 
with drawings, from the neighbourhood of Kingussie, Dalvey, and 
Ballindalloch. The arguments formerly adducedf were equally con- 
* Trans. Roy. Soc. Ed. xxvi. 149. f Ibid. 154-168. 
