CONTENTS, 



Art. I. On Mineralogy considered as a Branch of Natural 

 History, and Outlines of an Arrangement of 

 Minerals founded on the Principles of the Natu- 

 ral Method of Classification. By L. A. Necker, 

 Honorary Professor of Mineralogy and Geology 

 in the Academy of Geneva, &c. Communicated 

 by the Author, - - - . 209 



II. Some Account of the Famine in Guzerat, in the years 

 1812 and 1813. By Captain James Rivett 

 Carnac, Political Resident at the Court of Gui- 

 cawar. In a Letter to William Erskine, Esq. 266 



III. On Physical Geography, - - . , 2^2 



IV. Account of a Hurricane in North America. By J. J. 



Audubon, Esq. F. R. S. L. & Ed. - 278 



V. Description and Explanation of a simple Rain-Gage, 

 calculated to show the depth of Rain falling 

 around it to the ten-thousandth part of an Inch. 

 By Matthew Adam, A. M., Rector of the Royal 

 Academy of Inverness, and Associate of the So- 

 ciety of Arts of Scotland. Communicated by the 



Author, 281 



VI, General View of Meteorological Observations for the 

 Years 1830 and 1831, extracted from the Regis- 

 ter kept by Matthew Adam, A. M., Rector of 

 the Royal Academy of Inverness, in Lat. 57° 30' 

 N. and Long. 4° 12' W. from Greenwich, at an 

 altitude of about 30 feet, and distance from the 

 sea of about one mile, - - - 289 



