DONATIONS prefented to the ROYAL SOCIETY of Edinburgh, continued from the preceding Volume. By John Macgowan, Efq; Edinburgh. Anacardium Occidentale. LIN. The Fruit of the Cafhen Tree, preferved in fpirits. No. 722. Caftor Fiber. LIN. The Beaver, from Hudfon's Bay. No. 723. Crotalus Miliarius. LIN. The fmall Rattlefnake. No. 726. By the Right Honourable Lord Daer. A number of articles, collected in the South Seas by Captain BLIGH. Two parcels of fine New Zealand Hemp. No. 728. A Mufical Inftrument made of Reeds. No. 729. An Arrow-head, formed of a hard black Schiftus. No. 730. Fish-hooks of Mother of Pearl, and Lines, from the Friendly Ilands. No. 731.—733. Fish-hooks, and Lines, formed of the Sinews of an Animal from the coast of America, in Lat. 49° N. No. 734.-736. Capnias Auftralis, Smectis Auftralis, Catochites Auftralis, from the South Sea Islands. No. 737.—-739. By John Davidfon, Efq; of Ravelrig. A Lion's Skin, with the Head, Teeth and Claws, from the Cape of Good Hope. No. 740. VOL. II. Lift of Donations. Two Sea-weeds, taken out of the Atlantic, at a great distance from any land. No. 741. 742. Six Arrows from Bengal. No. 743. A Malay Poinard. No. 744. Lapis Judaicus, from the East Indies. No. 745. By John Learmonth, Efq; Merchant in Edinburgh. Scolopendra Gigantea, LIN. above fourteen inches long, from the West Indies, preferved in fpirits. No. 746. By Profeffor Dalzel. A Sceptre of Ivory, mounted with filver, given by the King of The Horn of an Antelope, from Africa. No. 748. By James Bofwell, Efq; of Auchinleck. Some large Nodules of Flint, from Italy; each having crystallifations in a large central cavity, fent from Leghorn by Sir John Dick. No. 749. By Captain Liddel. A white Greenland Bear. No. 750. By Francis Kinloch, Efq; of Gilmerton. Colymbus Arcticus, LIN. fhot on the fhore of Eaft Lothian. By the Honourable Lord Hailes. Trichechus Rofmarus. LIN. The Morfe or Sea Horfe; the By Mr John Macaulay, Town-clerk of Dumbarton. The Horn of a Stag, of a fingular form, dug out of a ftratum of Clay in Dumbartonshire. No. 753. By the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron Montgomery. By Dr Gregory. A large Lizard, from the West Indies, preferved in fpirits. By William Henry Charters, Efq; of Burntifland. Lava Garnets, found in the Lava, which overwhelmed Pompeii. No. 756. Two Copper Coins. No. 757. 758. A Silver Coin of Henry VI. ftruck at Calais, and found in the river Jed. No. 759. By Dr Roxburgh at Madrass. A Chest of Plants from Bengal and the Peninfula of India, containing feveral hundred Plants, in fine condition, and arranged according to the Linnean system. By The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, to the end of the year 1783, Vol. I. 4to. Boston, 1785. By The Royal Irish Academy. The Tranfactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 4to. Dublin, Lift of Dena tions. 1787. By Lift of Donations. By Adair Crawford, M. D. Experiments and Obfervations on Animal Heat, and the Inflammation of Combustible Bodies, &c. The fecond edition. 8vo. London, 1788. By Dr Carlyle. The Hufbandry of the Ancients, by Adam Minister of Whittingham. Dickson, A. M. late 2 Vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1788. By E. Peart, M. D. The Generation of Animal Heat inveftigated, &c. 8vo. Gainf Effays Medical, Philofophical and Experimental, Vol. II. By the Reverend Archibald Alison, A. B. 8vo. Effays on the Nature and Principles of Tafte. 4to. Edinburgh, 1790. TRANS poffeffion of health and of his faculties, and fortunate in his family and all his domeftic concerns ;-he had little elfe to pray for, (fince Heaven had ordered that he fhould now be called from the fociety of perfons fo dear to him) but an easy diffolution of his mortal state. And this Divine Providence thought fit to grant him. He died upon the 27th of September 1789, after an illness of two days, at his feat of Barskimming in Ayrshire, in the 72d year of his age, leaving no good man his enemy, and attended with that fincere and extenfive regret, which only those can hope for, who have occupied the like important stations, and acquitted themselves as well. We have spoken of him in his public capacity, and noticed his great temperance and folidity of judgment. Now, thefe qualities were in him the more to be praised, that they did not proceed from any coldnefs or tardinefs of nature, but were, on the contrary, united to a very warm and feeling heart; which was manifeft in his whole life and manners. No man was perhaps a better citizen, or more genuine patriot, than the late Prefident; if we are to esteem him fuch, who not only takes an intereft in the internal welfare and prosperity of his country, but feels an honeft pride and warm concern in its glory and confequence as a state, and in the fplendour of the peoples fame. Of all thefe, the Prefident had, and continued to have, even in his latest years, a moft lively fenfe; which was, at one period of his life, the fource of much joy and fatisfaction, and at a later period, of fincere mortification and regret, and caufed him often to lament to the rifing generation, during the misfortunes of the late war, that they had only feen a glimpfe of the glory of their country. That part too of the British dominions which gave him birth, he was attached to with all the partiality which a good man naturally feels; nor was there any fubject on which he dwelt more freVOL. II. (K) quently, Account of |