17 CONTENTS. 



of Morayshire, By Captain Lambert Brick- 

 ENDEN, F.G.S., .... 353 

 2. On the Telerpeton Elginense, a Fossil Reptile 

 discovered in the Old Red Sandstone of Moray. 

 By Mr Patrick Duff ; and on supposed Fossil 

 Ova of Batrachians in the Lower Devonian 

 Shales of Forfarshire. By Dr Mantell, LL.D., 

 F.R.8., &c., 353 



Art. XXV. The Silurian System, .... 355 



XXVI. Scientific Intelligence : — 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Five Hundred Persons destroyed by a Water- 

 Spout, 358 



GEOLOGY. 



2. Sir Charles Lyell on Progressive Geological 

 Development. 3. Desor on the Drift of North 

 America. 4. Lieut. Charles Henry Davis on the 

 Connection between Tides and Alluvial De- 

 posits. 5. Different Gneiss Formations. 6. 

 Pseudomorphic Nature of Serpentine. 7. Cause 

 of the Thermal Waters in Western Asia- 

 Minor, .... 358-361 



MINERALOGY. 



8. Tourmaline, its different kinds. 9. R. Her- 

 mann's Arrangement of Minerals of the Felspar 

 kinds, 361 



ZOOLOGY. 



10. The Animals of a Coral Reef. 11. Cause of 

 the Jet from the Blow-Holes of Whales, 362, 363 



BOTANY. 



12. On the Palo de Velas or Candle-Tree {Par- 

 mentiera cereifera, Seem). By M. Berthold 

 Seeman, ..... 363 



miscellaneous. 



13. The Sources of the Nile. 14. Bonpland 

 the Botanist. 15, Shortening of Voyages be- 

 tween the Old and New Worlds. 16. On the 

 mode of manufacturing Pemmican. 17. Im- 

 portant Uses of lodiferous Compounds. 18. 

 On the Application of Rectified Oil of Coal- 

 Tar to the Preservation of Meat and Vegetables. 



By M. Robin. 19. Lapland, . 364-367 



XXVII. List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d 

 December 1851 to 24th March 1852, . 368 



