CONTENTS. iu 



Art. XVII. On the Irritability of the Sensitive Plant. ByM. 



DUTROCHET, - - - - - - 380 



XVIII. Description of an Improved Air- Pump. By John 



Dunn, Optician, Edinburgh. With a Plate, 382 

 XIX. Remarks upon the Wasting Effects of the Sea on 

 the shore of Cheshire, between the rivers Mer- 

 sey and Dee. By Robert Stevenson, Esq. 

 Civil Engineer, F.R.S.E. M.W.S. &c. Com- 

 municated by the Author, - - 386 



XX. Description of several New or Rare Plants, which 

 have flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh, during the last three months. By 

 Dr Graham, - - « . 389 



XXI. Celestial Phenomena from April 1. to July 1. 1828, 

 calculated for the Meridian of Edinburgh, Mean 

 Time. By Mr George Innes, Aberdeen, 394 



XXII. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History 



Society. Continued from p. 1 82. - 397 



XXIII. Scientific Intelligence. 



ASTRONOMY. 



I. Appendix to the Nautical Almanack. 2. Reduction of the 



Observations made by Sir T. M. Brisbane in the Sou- 

 thern Hemisphere. 3. Voyage of Experiment and Dis- 

 covery. 4. Charts of the Zodiacal Stars, - 398, 399 



meteorology. 

 5. Meteorological Table, extracted from the Register kept at 

 Kinfauns Castle, North Britain ; Lat. 56" 23' 30". ; above 

 the Level of the Sea 140 feet. 6. Mr Watt's Solar and 

 Lunar Compasses, - - - - 399, 400 



CHEMISTRY. 



7. Animal Matter in Mineral Waters, 8. Crystals of Oxalate 

 of Lime in Plants. 9* Iodine in Cadmium. 10. New 

 Mode of preserving crystals of Salts, - - 401 



GEOLOGY. 



II. Inflammable Gas arising after boring for Salt. 12. In- 



flammable Gas from Salt Mines employed for producing 

 Light 13. Analysis of Peat. 14. Geology of the Hi.. 



