CONTENTS 



OF THE 



EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 

 No. XVII. 



, Page 



Art. I. Account of the Structure, Manners, and Habits of an Orang-Outang 

 from Borneo, in the possession of George Swinton, Esq. Calcutta. By 

 J. Grant, Esq. Assistant-surgeon Bengal Establishment. In a Let- 

 ter to Dr Brewster, * 

 II. Account of a New Reflecting Telescope. By the Right Honourable 

 Lord Oxmantown, M. P. &c. Communicated by the Author, 25 



III. Observations on the Styles of Building employed in Ancient Italy, 

 and the Materials used in the City of Rome. Communicated by a 

 Correspondent, 30 



IV. On Botryogene, the native Red Iron- Vitriol of Fahlun. By Wil- 

 liam Haidinger, Esq. F. R. S. Ed. Communicated by the Au- 

 thor, 48 



V. Account of the Great Cavern of Boobon in the Cossyah Mountains. 

 By M. Duvaucel, 51 



VI. Additional Observations on the Cavern of Boobon, with a Plan. By 

 David Scott, Esq. Communicated by the Author, 54 



VII. On the Chalk Formation of Denmark. By Dr G. ForcHhammer. 

 Communicated by the Author, 56 



VIII. An account of the services which the little bird called Trochilos ren- 

 ders to the Crocodile. By M. Geoffroy St-Hilaire, 68 



IX. On the Diurnal Variation of the Barometer at Paris. By M. Bou- 



vard. Director of the Royal Observatory of Paris, &c. 72 



X. On the Influence of Wind on the Height of the Barometer. By M. 



A. Bouvard, Director of the Royal Observatory of Paris, &c. 77 



XI. Report on Double Stars from a Review of the Starry Heavens made 

 with the Great Achromatic Telescope of Fraunhofer, addressed to 

 Prince Lieven, Curator of the University of Dorpat. By F. G. 

 Struve, Director of the Observatory, 79 



XII. Notice of the Third Series of Observations with a twenty, feet Reflect- 

 ing Telescope, containing a Catalogue of 384 new Double and, Multiple 

 Stars, completing a first thousand of those Objects detected in sweeps 

 with that Instrument By J. F. W. Herschel, Esq. F. R. S. and 

 President of the Astronomical Society, 90 



XIII. Description of Erinite, a new Mineral Species. By William Haid- 



inger, Esq. F. R. S. E. &c. Communicated by the Author, 93 



