CONTENTS, " 



in Berwickshire. By Captain MILNE, R. N., 

 F.R.S.E. (Communicated by the Author), . 175 

 XX. Table of Heights ascertained barometrically in the 

 Department of the Hautes- Pyrenees. By M. 

 LE COMTE DE RAFFETOT. Communicated by 

 Professor FORBES in a Letter to the Editor, . 177 

 XXI. Extract of a Letter from Mrs SOMERVILLE to M. 

 ARAGO, detailing some Experiments concern- 

 ing the Transmission of the Chemical Rays of 

 the Solar Spectrum through different Media, 180 

 XXII. Observations regarding Fossil Infusoria, commu- 

 nicated to the Royal Academy of Sciences of 

 Berlin, by Professor EHRENBERG, on the 27th 

 and 30th June 1836, . .183 



XXIII. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, . 186 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Upon a new Thermometer, which will indicate Mean 



Temperatures. In a Letter from M. JULES JUB- 

 GENSEN to M. ARAGO, . . . .186 



2. Extract of a Letter from M. . to M. ARAGO, 



upon the Shooting Stars of the year 1695, . 188 



3. Shooting Stars on the Night of the llth-12th No- 



vember 1833, in a Letter from M. GAIMARD to M. 



DE FREYCINET, ..... 189 



4. Temperature of Space, . . . .189 



5. The Ancient Temperature on Mount Taurus, . 189 



6. Researches on Living Barometers, by M. D'Hon- 



BRES FlRMAS, . . . 190 



7. Luminous Appearance at Sea off the Shetland Isles, 191 



8. Tropical Nights. . 192 



ANIMAL ELECTRICITY. 



9. Experiments of M. MATTEUCCI upon the Torpedo, 193 



CHEMISTRY. 



10. On solid Carbonic Acid, . 194 



11. Mode of preventing Beer from becoming acid, . 196 



12. Note on the Manufacture of Platinum, by M. PE- 



LOUZE, . . . 197 



ZOOLOGY. 



13. On the Specific Characters of the larger Cetacea, as 



deduced from the Conformation of the Bones of 

 the Ear. By M. VANBEXEDEN, . .198 



14. Fossil Saurian in the Lias of the Isle of Skye, . 198 



15. Infusory Animals of the Springs of Carlsbad, . 199 



