THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 



PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IK THE 



SCIENCES AND THE 



ROBERT JAMESON^ 



RKOIVS PROrBSSOR OF NATUBAI, HISTORY, liBCTURBR ON MINKRALOGV, AND KBRPBR OV 

 THE MUSKUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OP EDINBURGH ; 



Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh} of the Antiquarian andWemerian Societies 

 of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Royal Dublin Society ; 

 Fellow of the Linnean and Geological Societies of London ; Honorary Member of the Asiatic So- 

 ciety of Calcutta j of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and of the Cambridge Philosophi- 

 cal Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian/ Northern, and Cork Institutions ; of the Royal So- 

 ciety of Sciences of Denmark ; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin ; of the Royal Academy 

 of Naples ; of the Imperial Natural History Society of Moscow ; of the Imperial Pharmaceutical 

 Society of Petersburgh ; of the Natural History Society of Wetterau ; of the Mineralogical Society 

 of Jena ; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of Dresden ; of the Natural History Society of Paris ; 

 of the Philomathic Society of Paris ; of the Natural History Society of Calvados ; of the Senken- 

 berg Society of Natural History ; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 New York ; of the New York Historical Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, 



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