THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 

 PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



E^SIBITIKG A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE 



SCIENCES AND THE ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



ROBERT JAMESON, 



R£OIV8 PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, LKCTURKR ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OF 

 THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; 



Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; of the Antiquarian, Wemerian and Horti- 

 cultural Societies of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Royal 

 Dublin Society ; Fellow of the Royal Linnean and Royal Geological Societies of London ; Ho- 

 norary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 

 and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern, 

 and Cork Institutions; of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and New- 

 castle ; of the Royal Society 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 Pharmaceuticsd Society of St Petersburgh ; of the Natural History Society of Wefterau ; 

 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 Senkenberg Society of Natural History ; of the Society of Natural 

 Sciences and Medicine of Heidelberg; 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 ; of the Natural History Society of Montreal; of the Geological Society of France; of the 

 South African Institution of the Cape of Good Hope ; of the Franklin Institution of the State of 

 Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, ^-c. Sfc, 



OCTOBER 1831... APRIL 1832. 



TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. 



^ EDINBURGH : 



PRINTED FOR ADAM BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH 

 AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN, 

 LONDON. 



1832. 



