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different times ; illustrated by some excellent sections and drawings of the quarry 
by Mr. Cunningham, and by the lithographic drawings prepared by the Society, 
as well as by the different slabs and casts presented to the Museum of the Royal 
Institution, by the Natural-History Society. 
The second soiree was held Dec. 12. The paper for the evening, “ On the 
Solidification of Carbonic Acid Gas," by Dr. Reynolds. The third will take 
place on the 9th of January, and the last for the present season on the 13th of 
February. 
The terms of admission are exceedingly moderate, being 10s. for a gentleman’s 
ticket, and 5s. for a lady’s ticket to the course. Strangers recommended by 
subscribers may obtain single tickets for half-a-crown. It is well to observe that 
the above price of admission merely defrays the expense of refreshments, and of 
lighting and warming the rooms, for which purpose a new apparatus has been put 
up, for warming the rooms with hot air. Many disappointments invariably 
occur, as the committee are regulated in the number of tickets they issue by the 
size of the lecture-room. The rooms of the Museum and Galleries would accom¬ 
modate a greater number, but then dissatisfaction would ensue at not being able 
to procure a place in the lecture-room. Between five and six hundred tickets 
are issued. 
ST. ANDREWS LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Nov. 30.—Lord Wm. Douglas, Pres., in the chair.—Present—Sir David 
Brewster; Professors Tennant, Jackson, Anderson; Col. Playfair; Major 
Playfair; Provost Wallace; Drs. Haldane, Buist, Cook, Briggs, Mudie* 
Thomson, Gillespie, Scott, Govan : Rev. S. Lumsdaine ; Mr. Lyon, Mr. 
Arnott, Mr. J. Goodsir, Mr. Adamson, Mr. Cox, Mr. Dempster, Mr. Buist 
(Kirkton), Mr. Wallace, Mr. Smith, Mr. Pattullo, Mr. Messieux, Mr. Geo. 
Buist, Mr. Berrie, Mr. Page, Mr. W. Buist, Mr. PI. Buist, &c. &c. 
The Curator read a very handsome list of donations from the University 
Library and from several Members of the Society. 
Lord Melville, Capt. Brown, and Mr. Greenhill were elected honorary 
members; and several ordinary members were admitted. 
The Secretary then read an extract of a letter from Dr. John Davy, in 
reference to the teeth of Megalychthys , found in Halbeath Parrot-coal, which had 
been put into his hands for analysis by Sir David Brewster. It had been 
analysed by him, and nearly the same conclusions come to as those formerly 
arrived at by Dr. Briggs. 
Mr. John Goodsir, of Anstruther, then laid before the meeting numerous 
specimens and drawings of fishes lately found in the Limestone and Shales of 
Corn-Ceres. Mr. Goodsir very ably explained the nature of the specimens. The 
