TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



NUMBER XLIX. JANUARY. 



Page. 



Mr. C. Lyell's Reply to a Note in the Rev. Mr. Conybeare's 

 Paper entitled " An Examination of those Phaenomena of 

 Geology, which seem to bear most directly on theoretical 



Speculations" 1 



Memoir of the late J. S. Miller, A.L.S. Curator of the Museum 



of the Bristol Philosophical Institution 4? 



Rev. J. Challis on the theoretical Determination of the Motion 



of Fluids 7 



Mr. N. J. Winch's Remarks on the Geology of the Banks of 

 the Tweed, from Carham, in Northumberland, to the Sea 



Coast at Berwick II 



Rev. W. D. Conybeare's Examination of those Phaenomena of 

 Geology, which seem to bear most directly on theoretical 



Speculations (continued) 19 



On the New Nautical Almanac 23 



On the Visitation of Greenwich Observatory: with a Copy of 



the New Warrant 27 



Mr. R. Warrington's Examination of a Native Sulphuret of 



Bismuth 29 



Recent Discovery of the Ladder of M. de Saussure in the Mer 

 de Glace ; with Inferences respecting the Progressive Move- 

 ment of Glaciers 32 



Mr. R. Bakewell's Facts and Observations relating to the 

 Theory ofahe progressive Development of Organic Life ... . 33 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 37 



. Linnaean Society 46 



Geological Society 4-7 



Zoological Society 53 



Chloroxalic Acid Potash from Felspar 66 



Native Phosphates of Manganese and Iron On Oxamide, by 



M. Dumas 67 



On two Kinds of Fulminating Gold, by M. Dumas 69 



On the State of Mercury in Mercurial Ointment, by M. Mit- 



scherlich 70 



Mr. Bennet's New Alloy for the Pivot Holes of Watches 



Earthquakes at the Cape of Good Hope in 1809 71 



New Patents 75 



Meteorological Observations 78 



Meteorological Observations made by Mr. Thompson at the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, near 

 London ; by Mr. Giddy at Penzance, Dr. Burney at Gosport, 

 and Mr. Veall at Boston 80 



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