CONTENTS. 



Art. I. Historical Eluge of Louis Nicolas Vauquklin. By 



Baroii CuviER. - - _ Piiee 209 



II. The Numerical Rolutions of AiiiniaJs from Linnjeus to 



the present time, - - - _ 221 



III. The Rock of Gibraltar. By Professor Hausmann, 227 



IV. Biographical Sketch of Anthony Scarpa, the cele- 



brated Anatomist and Surgeon, - - 283 



y. Report of a Lecture on the Chemistry of Geology de- 

 livered at one of the Evening Meetings at the Uni- 

 versity of London. By Edward Turner, M. D. 

 F. R. S. L. E., Sec. G. S. - „ 246 



VI. Dr Oppenhbiw on the State of Medicine in European 



and Asiatic Turkey, - - . 255 



VII. Observations on the Hygrometer. Communicated by 



the Author, - _ _ . ' 2*73 



VIII. An Account of Professor Ehrenberg's more Recent 

 Researches on the Infusoria. By William Sharpey, 

 M. D., Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology. Com- 

 municated by the Author. With a Plate, - 287 

 IX. Abstract of a Comparative Revieiv of Philological and 

 Physical Researches, as applied to the History of the 

 Human Species. By J. C. Prichard, M. D., F. R. S. 308 

 X. I. i\Ieteorological Observations made at Edinburgh 

 during the great Solar Eclipse of July I7. 1833.— -2. 

 A Method of Freeing the Determination of the Lati- 

 tude of an Observatory, and of the Declination of a 



