CONTENTS. Ill 



PAGS 



XX. Abstract of Meteorological Observations for 1846, 

 made at Applegarth Manse, Dumfriesshire. By 

 Rev. Dr Dunbar, 363 



XXI. Summary of Meteorological Observations made at 

 Whitehaven in the year 1845. By J. F. Miller, 

 Esq. Communicated by the Author, . . 366 



XXII. Scientific Intelligence : — 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Sensation at Great Heights. 2. Die [Meteoriten, or 

 Meteorites in the Imperial Mineral Cabinet at 

 Vienna. 3. Observations on an Acid Rain. 4. First 

 Report on Meteorology. 6. Protection from Light- 

 ning of Houses with Metallic Roofs. . §73-375 



HYDROGRAPHY. 



6. M. Chancourtois, on the Salt Lake of Van, in Ar- 

 menistan. 7. Formation of young Ice. 8. Force 

 of the Waves in moving masses of Rock. . 377-380 



MINERALOGY. 



9. Manganocalcite. 10. Wohler on a New Locality of 

 Zircon in the Tyrol. 11. M. A. Damour's Analysis 

 of White Jade, and probable identity of that sub- 

 stance with Tremolite. 12. Predazzite. 13. The 

 so-called Red Albite of Kimito is an Oligoclase. 

 14. Crystallized Kupferindig. 15. Bpidosite, a new 

 species of Mountain Rock. 16. Kersten on the 

 Conversion of Sulphate of Lead into Lead-Glance, 

 by means of Organic Substances. 17. Vanadium 

 detected in an Ore of Iron. 18. Chrome in Serpen- 

 tine. 19. AUanite, Cerine, and Orthite. 20. Ana- 

 tase, Brookite, and Rutile. 21. Occurrence of 

 Diaspore at Schemnitz. 22. Yttro-Cerite. 23. Dy- 

 sluite identical with Automolite. . . 380-384 



geology. 



24. M. A. Daubr6e on the High Temperature observed 

 in a Pit sunk at Neuffen, in Wiirtemberg. 25. Sub- 

 sidence of the Land at Puzzuoli. 26. Discovery of 

 a large Deposit of Black Bituminous Coal in 

 Chatham Island, one of the Galapagos. 27. Air of 

 Mines. 28. The Oust- Art, and shores of Lake Aral. 



29. Siliceous Microscopic Sea Animals in Guano. 



30. On the Alios of the North- West of France. 



31. Traces of Glacial Action at North Berwick, &c. 



32. The Geology of Norway, as connected with the 

 absence of a Feudal Nobility, and the want of great 

 Public Buildings. 33. Desert of Sahara. 34. On 

 the Permeability of Metals. 35. New Map of the 

 Island of Sardinia, . . . 384-392 



paleontology. 



36. Infusoria. 37. New Work on the Fossil Plants of 



Scania, ..... 393 



