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near Edinburgh, by Messrs Drysdale and Walker, 195 of cbang- 



ed stratified rocks, 387 

 Ruminating animals, observations on tlieir vomiting, 200 



Salisbury Craigs, the altered slate-clay of, analyzed, 387 



Sang, Edward, on the advantages of a short arc of vibration for the 

 clock pendulum, 137 — his meteorological observations made at 



Edinburgh during the great solar eclipse of July 17. 1833 also 



his method of freeing the determination of the latitude of an ob- 

 servatory, and of the declination of a star, from the consideration 

 of atmospheric refraction, 32S 



Scandinavia, its physiognomy described by Professor Hausmann, 73 



, its gradual elevation or rise, considered by W. Johnston, 



A. M., 34 



Scarpa, Anthony, biographical memoir of, 233 



Secondary rocks, chemical analysis of, from Wardie, near Newhaven, 

 and the Pentlands, 193 



Sharpey, Dr, his account of Ehrenberg's late discoveries, 287 



Silvertop, Brigadier, on the tertiary formation in the province of Gra- 

 nada, 364 



Slate-clay of Wardie, analysis of, 195 — of Lochend, 387 



Society of Arts of Scotland, proceedings of, 204, 393 



Spain, geological map of, noticed, 398 



Specific gravity of different solid parts of the human body, 159 — of 

 gome British rocks, 194 



Steam-Boats, American, observations on, by Mr C. Redfield, 55 



Stucco for walls, 202 



Sun's mean right ascension, tables of, by W. Galbraith, 97 



Tooth, fossil, in red sandstone, account of, 397 



Trees, on the longevity of, 330 



Trilobite, living species of, discovered, 398 



Turkey, on the state of medicine in, 255 



Turner, Dr Edward, his lecture on the chemistry of geology, 246 



Varieties of the human species, observations on, by Dr Prichard, 308 

 Vauquelin, L. N., his eloge by Baron Cuvier, 209 

 Vomiting in ruminating animals, experiments on, 200 



< Water, deep, on the colour of, 348 



Wight, Robert, M. D., his characters of new or little known genera 

 of plants, 176, 378 



Witham, H., his new work on fossil trees, noticed, 402 



Wollastonite of Corstorphine Hill, analyzed, 388 



Wool, method of cleansing it of its grease, and economizing the resi- 

 due, 202 



Working classes, on competition among, 105 



Xavier de Maistre, Count, on t he col our of the atmosphere and deep 

 water, 348 X^ 



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