CONTENTS 



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 Art. I. Biographical Memoir of Sir William Herschel. By 



Baron Fourier, - - - . i 



II. Description of a New Magnetical Instrument (pro- 

 posed to be called the Solar Compass or Heliastron), 

 with some Observations on subjects intimately or 

 remotely connected with the phenomena it exhibits. 

 By Mark Watt, Esq. Member of the Wernerian 

 Natural History Society. With a Plate. Commu- 

 nicated by the Author, - - - 1 6 



III. On the Semamith of Solomopi Prov. xxx. 28. By the 



Rev. David Scot, M. D. M. W. S. F.H.S. E. Com- 

 municated by the Author, - - 30 



IV. On Vegetable Substances growing on the bodies of 



living Animals, - - - - 38 



V. On the relative Proportions of certain parts of the 

 Eye of the Foetus, compared with the same parts of 

 the perfectly developed Eye. By Professor Carus, 41 

 VI. On the Irritability of the Stigma, and on the origin 

 and nature of certain parts of the Fructification in 

 Pinus Larix. By Mr David Don, Libr. Linn. Soc. 

 Member of the Imperial Academy Naturae Curioso- 

 rum, of the Royal Botanical Society of Ratisbon, 

 and of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh, &c. 

 Communicated by the Author, - - 43 



VII. Essay on the Domestication of Mammiferous Animals, 

 with some introductory considerations on the va- 

 rious states in which we may study their actions. 

 By M. Fred. Cuvier. Continued from former Vo- 

 lume, p. 318. - - - - 45 

 VIII. On a new Gyrogonite, or Fossile Capsule of the genus 

 Chara, occurring very abundantly in the fresh- water 

 Limestones of the neighbourhood of Paris. By M. 

 Constant Prevost, - - . - 60 

 IX. Notice regarding Fossil Remains found in Ava, 63 



