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of the well-authenticated instances in which the sperm-whale has 
been met with on the Scottish coasts. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Authority. 
Hoxav, Orkney, .... 
9th or 10th cent.? 
George Petrie. 
Limekilns,. 
Feb. 1689 
Sir E. Sibbald. 
Cramond,. 
1701 
James Paterson. 
Monifietli,*. 
Feb. 1703 
Sir E. Sibbald. 
Eoss-shire,. 
1756 
Sir W. Jardine. 
Cramond,. 
1769 
James Eobertson. 
Hoy Sound, Orkney, . . . 
About 1800 
George Low. 
Oban,. 
May, 1829 
William Turner. 
Thurso,. 
July, 1863 
J. E. Grav, and 
W. H. Flower. 
Loch Scavaig, Skye, . . 
July, 1871 
William Turner. 
Monday, 5th February 1872. 
Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
At the request of the Council Professor Tait gave an 
Address on Thermo-Electricity. 
The following Communication was read :— 
1. Note on Cystine. By James Dewar, F.R.S.E. 
The following observations on Cystine are a continuation of those 
formerly communicated to the Society by Dr Arthur G-amgee and 
m} r self, during the course of the Session 1869-70, and reprinted 
with addition in the “Journal of Anatomy and Physiology” for 
that year; and although really little of a novel nature to present 
to the Society, still it is necessary to show some additional facts have 
* In connection with this animal, I may refer to an essay in the “ Scottish 
Naturalist,” dated November 1871, by Mr Robert Walker, of St Andrews, in 
which he describes and figures the vertebra of a whale, in the University 
Library of that city, which he believes to be the tenth dorsal of a youngish 
Cachalot. He believes it to be a relic of a whale stranded there, from which 
Mr Foster, a former Regent in the University of St Andrews, obtained a para¬ 
site which he sent to Sibbald, who figured it. He thinks that the whale 
figured on the same plate, though stated to be stranded at Monifietli, may have 
been this animal. 
