PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY

OF

EDINBURGH.

1854-1858.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY NEILL AND COMPANY.

MDCCCLVIII.

A

HARVARD COLLE ́E LIBRARY

BY EXCHANGE

1941

VII. Phoronis hippocrepia, and P. ovalis,

VIII, IX Hydractinia,

X. Coleoptera from Andes,

XI., XII. Clava and Eudendrium and Spio,

XIII., XIV. Laomedea accuminata,

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38

44

44

48

70

164

172

209

226

253

XV. Trichydra pudica, and Tubularia indivisa,

253

XVI., XVII. Coleoptera from Old Calabar,

271

XVIII., XIX. British Zoophytes,- Lagotia, Vaginicola, Ephe-

lota, Coryne, &c.,

335

XX., XXI. Anatomy of Malapterurus Beninensis,

359

XXII., XXIII.,

XXIV.

} Atractylis – Eudendrium, Laomedea,

477

CONTENTS.

SESSION 1854-55.

November 22, 1854.

PAGE

I. Miller (H.), on the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland,

Opening Address,

1

II. Murray (A.), on a Curious Habit of a Californian Wood-

pecker,

1

III. Lowe (Wm. H.), Notice of Lepidopterous captures near

Edinburgh,

IV. Logan (R. F.), Notice of

V. Smith (J. A.), Notice of Scops-Eared Owl (Scops Aldrovandi)

shot in Sutherlandshire,

VI. Murray (A.), Notice of Ivory Gull (Larus eburneus) shot in

Caithness,

3

4

December 27, 1854.

I. Heddle (M. F.), on the Occurrence of Oxalates in the
Mineral Kingdom, and Analyses of Conistonite and Hed-
dlite,

II. Miller (H.), on a Raised Sea Bottom near Leith,

III. Geikie (A.), Liassic Fossils from Pabba and Skye,

IV. Bryson (Alex.), on Worm-Tracks in Silurian Slates,

Office-bearers Elected for 1854-55,

January 24, 1855.

I. Bryson (Alex.), Discovery of Diatomaceæ in the Silurian

Slates of Scotland,

II. Bryson (Alex.), Notice on a specics of Nostoc or Sky-Jelly,