OONTKNTS. Ill 



Registry. 3. Of Meteorological Instruments, and 

 first, of the Barometer and its attached Thermometer ; 

 of the Kxtemal Thermometer ; of the Maximum 

 and Minimum, or Self-registering Thermometer ; of 

 Thermometers Buried in the Earth ; of the Temper- 

 ature of the Sea ; of the Hygrometer ; of the Wind ; 

 of the State of the Sky ; of Lightning and Thunder ; 

 and of the Electrical State of the Air. 



XVIII. On a Method of Drilling, Turning, and Working 

 Glass, by means of Turpentine. By Mr John 

 Adie, - - - - - - - 149 



XIX. Temperature of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Plants, 

 Trees, and Earths, as ascertained at different times 

 and places in Arctic America, during Captain 

 Back's Expedition. By Mr King, Surgeon to 

 the Expedition, - - - - - 150 



XX. General Table of Meteorological Observations at 



Fort Vancouver, from June 1. 1834 to May 13. 

 1835. By Dr M. Gairdnbb, - - - 152 



XXI. Description of several New or Rare Plants which 

 have lately Flowered in the Neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden. 



By Dr Graham, Prof, of Botany, - - 154 



XXII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 158 



XXIII. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History 



Society, 160 



XXIV. Proceedings of the Society for the Encourage- 



ment of the Useful Arts in Scotland, - - 164 



XXV. Scientific Intelligence, - - - - 169 



1. Shower of Falling Stars in Russia, on the night be- 



tween the 12th and 13th November 1832, . jb. 



2. Disengagement of Inflammable Gas in the Interior 



of Mines, I'JQ 



3. Analysis ofa Clay Ironstone, forming a bed twelve 



inches thick, in the Coal Formation at Wardie, 

 to the westward of Newhaven, near Edinburgh. 

 By William Gregory, Esq. M. D., . . I73 



4. Volcanos of Kamtschatka, . . . . J 74 



