U CONTENTS. 



XI. Report on Nomenclature in Natural History to the 

 Association of American Geologists and Natura- 

 lists, May 1845. By Mr J. D. Dana, . . 301 

 XII. Observations on the Extent and Rate of Change of 

 Temperature of the Waters in the Estuary of the 

 Mersey; at Liverpool. By Mr Ritchie Adie. 

 Communicated by the Author, . . . 307 



XIII. On the Applicability of the Electro-Magnetic Bell to 



the Trial of Experiments on the Conduction of 

 Sound, especially by Gases. By George Wilson, 

 M.D., F.R.S.E., F.R.S.S.A. Communicated by 

 the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, . . 310 



XIV. On the Natives of Old Callebar, West Coast of Africa. 



By W. F. Daniell, Esq. Communicated by the 

 Ethnological Society, ..... 313 

 Supplement. — Upon the Philological Ethnography 

 of the Countries around the Bight of Biafra. By 



R. G. Latham, M.D., 327 



XV. Description of a Machine for Drawing the perfect 

 Egg- Oval ; and of a Method of producing Curvi- 

 lineal Figures, on a principle whereby Beauty of 

 Form may be imparted to Ornamental Vases and 

 Mouldings in Architecture, — to the Works of the 

 Silversmith, Brazier, and Potter, — equal to such 

 Works of the Ancients. Invented by D. R. Hay, 

 Esq., F.R.S.S.A. Communicated by the Royal 

 Scottish Society of Arts, . . . .331 



XVI. Additional Notice on the Urinary Excrement of In- 

 sects, with some Observations on that of Spiders. 

 By John Davy, M.D., F.R.S.L. & E., Inspector- 

 General of Army Hospitals. Communicated by 



the Author, 336 



XVII. On the Gold Produce of Siberia. By Sir R. I. Mur- 



chison, F.R.S., «&c. &c. &c., .... 340 

 XVIII. Habitation and Destruction of the Mammoths. By 

 Sir R. I. MuRCHisoN, F.R.S., &c. : — 



Habitation of Mammoths and their Destruction — Similar 

 Mammoth Burial in Western Europe — Siberian En- 

 tombment of Mammoths — British Analogies — Condi- 

 tions of Mammoth Burial Explained — Views of 

 Lyell, Humboldt, and Owen — Ancient Geography of 

 Siberia — Remote Age of the N. Courses of the Great 

 Siberian Streams — Elevation of Siberia, and End of 

 Mammoth Period — Fossil Quadrupeds of European 

 Russia — Mammoth Clay Drift at Taganrog — Whe- 

 ther Extinct Bos Urus and Living Aurochs are the 

 same ? — If so, its Preservation explained — Subject of 

 Great Fossil Mammalia concluded, . . . 344 



XIX. The Meteorology of Auckland. Remarks on the 



Weather, &c., from 1840-1844, ... 362 



