104 Baron Von Buch's Observations^ ^c. 



Sondmor, the mean temperature would be 5°.4 (19^.85 Fahr.) 

 which may perhaps approach very near to that of the pole. 



From the observations at Kendal and Sondmor, on the con- 

 trary, we obtain the mean temperature of 17°.8 of Reaumur, 

 (72°.05 Fahr.) for the equator, and + 0°.5 (33°.12 Fahr.) for 

 the pole ; results which should be mutually at greater distances 

 from each other. It is hence evident that the decrease of tem- 

 perature in the Northern Atlantic is much less than the general 

 rule requires. Some new principle of heat, modifying the re- 

 sults, must here have interposed ; and what is that else than the 

 upper equatorial current, which, between America and Europe, 

 descends to the surface of the ocean, and distributing its heat, 



On the Wombat of Flinders. By Dr Knox, F.R.S.E. M.W.S. 



Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology, Fellow of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, and Conservator of the 

 Museum *. (Communicated by the Author.) 



X HE genus Phascolome was establislied by M. St Hilaire for 

 the reception of certain animals brouglit from New Holland by 



* Read before the Wernerian Society 14th January 1826. 



