THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 



PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



SXHIBITIKG A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



CIENCES AND THE ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



ROBERT JAMESON, 



VATDHAL HISTORY, LKCTURFR OS MIVKRALOOY, AND KEKPBR OF 

 THE MU8KUM IN THE UNIVKP6ITY OK EDINBURGH ; 



Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh ; of the Antiquarian, Wemerian and Horti- 

 cultural Societies of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Royal 

 Dublin Society; Fellow of the Linnean and Geological Societies of London ; Honorary Member 

 of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and of the Cam- 

 bridge Philosophical Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Northern, and Cork Institutions; 

 of the Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark ; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin; of the 

 Royal Academy of Naples ; of the Irai)erial Natural History Society of Moscow ; of the Imperial 

 Pharmaceutical Society of Petersburgh ; of the Natural History Society of Wetterau; of the Ml- 

 neraloglcal Society of Jena ; of the Royal Mineraloglcal Society of Dresden ; of the Natural His- 

 tory Society of Paris; of the Phllomathic Society of Paris; of the Natural History Society of 

 Calvados; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History ; of the Society of Natural Sciences and 

 Medicine of Heidelberg ; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New 

 York ; of the New York Historical Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of the Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York ; of 

 the Natural History Society of Montreal, Sfc. Sfc. 



APRIL... SEPTEMBER 1828. 



TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. 



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PRINTED FOR ADAM BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH 



AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN, 



LONDON. 



1828. 



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