CONTENTS. Ill 



Page 

 Drawings of the actual living objects. By C. R. Goring, M. D., 



and Andrew Pritchard. No. II. pp. 64, with three Plates, 353 



3. A Flora of Berwick upon Tweed. By George Johnston, 

 M. D. Fellow of the College of Surgeons, &c. Vol. I. Ph^no- 

 GAMOus Plants. Edin. 1829. 12mo. Pp. 250, 356 



4. A Treatise on the Reflection and Refraction of Light, being Part 

 I. of a System of Optics. By Henry Coddington, M. A. 

 F. R. S. Fellow of Trinity College, and of the Astronomical and 

 Cambridge Philosophical Societies. Camb. 1829. Pp. 296, and 



10 Folding Plates, .... 359 



5. An Essay on the use of the Nitrate of Silver in the cure of In- 

 flammation, Wounds, and Ulcers. By John Higginbottom, 

 Nottingham, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. 2d Edit. 

 Lond. 1 829. Pp. 220, .... 360 



6. The Influence of Climate in the Prevention and Cure of Chronic 

 Diseases, more particularly of the Chest and Digestive Organs : 

 Comprising an account of the principal places resorted to by Inva- 

 lids in England and the South of Europe ; a comparative estimate 

 of their respective merits in particular diseases ; and general direc- 

 tions for Invalids while travelling and residing abroad. With an 

 Appendix, containing a series of Tables on Climate. By James 

 Clark, M. D-, Member of the Royal College of Physicians of 

 London ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Medical Society of 

 Marseilles, of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Naples, of the 

 Medical and Physical Society of Florence, of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences of Sienna, &c. &c. London, 1829. Pp. 328. 361 



XXIIL PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES, . . . 363 



1. Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of the Useful 

 Arts in Scotland, . . . . . ib. 



2. Northern Inverness Institution, . . 364 



XXIV. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. . . ib. 



I. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 



Astronomy — 1. Comparison of Observations on the Solar Eclipse of Novem- 

 ber 29th, 1826. By Mr George Innes, Aberdeen. 2. Occultations of 

 Aldebaran and the Moon on the 15th October and 9th December 1829. 

 Calculated by Mr Henderson and Mr Maclear, . 364—366 



Pneumatics — 3. On the cold produced by the dilatation of air. By M. 



LE GRAND, .... 367 



II. NATURAL HISTORY. 



Mineralogy. — 4. Analysis of the Brochantite. 5. Formulae for the Man- 

 ganese Ores. 6. Measurement of the Crystals of Adularia. T. Account 

 of Davyne a New Mineral Species. By W. Haidinger, Esq. 8. On 

 Specific Gravity as a Mineralogical Character. By M. Beudant, 367, 368 



Zoology 9. Captain Brown's new work on Horses. 10. Notice regarding 



the Male and Female Orang-outang in the possession of George Swin- 

 TON, Esq. of Calcutta, in a letter to Dr Brewster, dated 13th June 

 1828. 11. Sagacity of Elephants, . . 369—371 



