TABLE OF CONTENTS 



NUMBER XXXVIL— JULY, 1835. 



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Mr. Weaver on the Gold-workings formerly conducted in 



the County of Wicklow, Ireland 1 



Prof. Encke on Olbers's Method of determining the Orbits of 



Comets 7 



Prof. Young on the Summation of slowly converging and di- 

 verging Infinite Series . 25 



Dr. Hodgkin on the Importance of Studying and Preserving 

 the Languages spoken by Uncivilized Nations, with the view 



of elucidating the Physical History of Man 27 



Dr. Hussey's Catalogue of Comets 36 



Mr. Beke on the Geological Evidence of the Advance of the 



Land at the Head of the Persian Gulf 40 



Mr. Murchison on the Silurian System of Rocks 46 



Proceedings of the Geological Society 52 



Zoological Society 64 



Astronomical Society 69 



. at the Friday- Evening Meetings of the Royal 



Institution of Great Britain 70 



Cambridge Philosophical Society, Lent 



Term, 1835 . 70 



British Association for the Advancement of Science : Meeting 



at Dublin in August next 71 



Mr. Brayley on the frequent Deficiency of the Ungueal Pha- 

 lanx in the Hallux of the Orang Outang 72 



On Oil of Cinnamon, &c 74 



Atomic Weight of Aluminum 75 



Mr. Charlesworth on Veins of Crystallized Carbonate of 



Lime in Fossil Wood 76 



Phenomenon resembling the Mirage, seen in the Regent's 



Park 77 



Mr. A. Dunn's Experiments to ascertain the Existence of 



Lead in the Atmosphere of a White-lead Manufactory 77 



Decomposition of Cyanuret of Mercury by Iron ....." 78 



Sulphuret of Zinc and Iron 79 



Scientific Books : — The Second Edition of the First and Second 

 Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of 



Science 79 



Transactions of the Linnaean Society, Vol. XVII. Part ii. . . 79 

 Meteorological Observations made by Mr. Thompson at the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, neat 



London , and by Mr. Veall at Boston 80 



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