CONTENTS. * iu 



Art. XXIV. Description of several New or Rare Plants which 

 have flowered in the neighbourhood of Edin- 

 burgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 den, during the last three months. By Dr 

 Graham, - - - _ 371 



XXV. Celestial Phenomena from October 1. 1828 to 

 January 1. 1829, calculated for the Meridian of 

 Edinburgh, Mean Time. By Mr George 

 Innes, Aberdeen, - - - 383 



XXVI. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History 



Society. Continued from p. 180. - 385 



XXVII. Scientific Intelligence. 



NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 



1. Proposed Improvement of the Air-Pump, - -. 386 



meteorology. 



2. Prognostics of the Weather. 3. Disturbance of the Mag- 



netic Needle by Polar Lights. 4. Effects of Rarified Air 

 of Mountains on the Pulse. 5. Meteor of a Green Co- • 

 lour. 6. On Thermo-Barometrical Observations, 389, ^90 



hydrography. 



7. Blowing a River out. 8. Chemical Researches respecting 

 the Mineral Waters of Geilnau, Fachingen, and Sellers. 

 9. Petrifying quality of the Irawaddy. 10. Phospho- 

 rescence of the Sea, _ _ - 391 -393 



mineralogy. 



11. Influence of Organic on Inorganic Bodies. 12. On An- 

 thracite, or Glance-Coal ; by A. Breithaupt. 1 3. On the 

 probable Occurrence of the Diamond in Siberia, 393, 394 



geology. 

 14. Fossil Bones in the Cave of Miremont. 15. On Coral 

 Islands. I6. On Brown Coal, or Lignite, and Oolite, 

 superimposed on Chalk; discovered in Besserabia by 

 M. Eichfield, - - _ . 395-397 



botany. 

 17. Inquiries respecting the Pollen of Vegetables. 18. On the 

 Organization of the genus Chara. I9. Account of a 



