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with some preliminary remarks on the analysis of organized bodies in 

 general. By William Prout, M.D. 



Presents received by the Royal Society : — Meteorological Journal. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. — Vol. 15th. Part II. 



Some account of a collection of cryptogamic plants from the Ionian 

 Islands. By Robert Kaye Greville, LL.D. — Description of a new 

 genus belonging to the natural family of plants called Scrophularince. 

 By Mr. David Don, Libr. L.S. — On Boswellia and certain Indian Te- 

 rebinthacece. By Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq. — The natural hi- 

 story of Oiketicus, a new and singular genus of Lepidoptera. By the 

 Rev. Lansdown Guilding, B.A. — Observations on the tracheae of 

 birds ; with descriptions and representations of several not hitherto 

 figured. By William Yarrell, Esq. — On two new genera of land 

 tortoises. By Thomas Bell, Esq. — Of the insect called Oistros by 

 the ancients, and of the true species intended by them under this 

 appellation : in reply to the observations of W. S. MacLeay, Esq., 

 and the French naturalists. To which is added, a description of a 

 new species of Cuterebra. By Bracy Clark. — A review of the genus 

 Combretum. By Mr. George Don. — Description of a new genus of 

 plants belonging to the order Nymphceacece i in a letter to H. T. Cole- 

 brooke, Esq. By Nath. Wallich, M.D. — Observations and experi- 

 ments, made with a view to ascertain the means by which the spiders 

 that produce gossamer effect their aerial excursions. By John Black- 

 wall, Esq. — Descriptions of two quadrupeds inhabiting the South of 

 Africa, about the Cape of Good Hope. By Andrew Smith, M.D. — 

 An account of a pair of hinder hands of an orang otang, deposited in 

 the collection of the Trinity- House, Hull. By John Harwood, M.D. — 

 On systems and methods in natural history. By J. E. Bicheno, Esq., 

 Sec. L.S. — An account of a new species of Pin us, native of Califor- 

 nia. By David Douglas. — Remarks on the Antilope Chickara : in two 

 letters addressed to the Secretary. By Robert Hills, Esq. — Extracts 

 from the minute-book of the Linnean Society, &c. &c. 



Memoirs of the Astronomical Society, Vol. 3rd. Part I. 



Observations made in the Island of Cuba. By the late Don Jose* 

 Joaquin de Ferrer, of Cadiz, member of the Phil. Acad. Boston. Com- 

 prehending, 1. Observations of the comet of 1807, with the determi- 

 nation of the elements of its orbit j 2. Observations of the lunar 

 eclipse, Nov. 14, 1807 j 3. Observations of the comet of 1813, with 

 the determination of the elements of its orbit, together with remarks 

 on its magnitude, and that of the comet of 1811 ; 4. Observations, 

 and computations of the elliptic orbit, of the comet of 1811 . — On the 

 longitude of Port Bowen, by the method of moon-culminating stars. 

 By Lieut. H. Foster, R.N. — Approximate places and descriptions of 

 295 new double and triple stars, discovered in the course of a series 

 of observations with a 20-feet reflecting telescope : together with some 

 observations of double stars previously known. By J. F. W. Herschel, 

 Esq. Pres. — Notice respecting some errors common to many tables 

 of logarithms. By Charles Babbage, Esq., For. Sec. — Astronomical 



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