CONTENTS. 



PAOR 



Art. I, On the Manner in which Sound is produced and dif- 

 fused. By Sir G. S. Mackenzie. Bart., F.R.S. ; 

 Vice-President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 

 &c. Communicated by the Author, . .197 



II. On the Soil of Palestine — its Deterioration — its Pro- 

 ductions — Food of the Orientals — Fertility of Pa- 

 lestine — Means of Restoration — Return of the 

 Jews — Peculiar Features of the Landscape, — In- 

 habitants — Mahomedan Civilization — ^Depopula- 

 tion, . . . . . 208 



III. Teleology of the Skeleton of Fishes. By Professor 



Owen, ..... 216 



IV. On the Small Temporary Glaciers of the Vosges. By 



Edward Collomb, . . . .227 



V. Memoir on the Bones found in the Stratified Gravels 

 in the vicinity of Mattegnin, Canton of Geneva. 

 By Professor F. J. Pictet, . . . 236 



VI. On Ground-ice. By Mr Richard Adie, Liverpool. 



Communicated by the Author, . . 243 



VII. On this Question — Is there Identity between the Spe- 

 cies of the Secondary and Tertiary Foimations, 

 and those belonging to the Existing Generations ? 248 



