CONTENTS 



OF THE 



EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



No. I. 



NEW SERIES. 



Page 

 Art. I. Biographical Notice of the late Sir J. E. Smith, President of the 

 Linnaean Society, with an estimate of the character and influence of 

 his Botanical labours. By the Rev. E. B. Ramsay, A. B. F. R. S. E. 

 F. S. A. Scot. Communicated by the Author, . 1 



II. Theory of the Action of Caloric in producing the Expansion of 

 Fluids and Solids, with a Formula for the Modulus of Gravity. By 

 W. S. Sankey, Esq. A. M., of the University of Dublin, and Extra- 

 ordinary Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Com- 

 municated by the Author, . • . 1? 



I I I. Case of extraordinary Physical Developement in a Boy six years of 

 age. By Thomas Smith, Esq. Surgeon, Kingussie. With a Plate. 

 Communicated by the Author, . . 26 



IV. Abstract of a Meteorological Journal kept at Funchal in the Island of 



Madeira, from January 1st to December 31 st, 1828. By C. Hein- 

 EKEN, M. D. Communicated by the Author, . 34 



V. Observations on the Mean Annual Temperature of Funchal in Madei* 

 ra. By C. Heineken, M. D. Communicated by the Author, 40 



VI. Account of the Sirocco Winds at Funchal, in the Island of Madeira, 

 during the years 1 826, 1827, and 1828. By C Heineken, M. D. 

 Communicated by the Author, . . 42 



VII. On the Electricity of Elastic Fluids, and on one of the causes of the 



Electricity of the Atmosphere. By M. Pouillet, . 47 



VIII. Comparative experiments on different Dew-point Instruments ; with 

 a description of one on an improved construction. By Mr John 

 Adie. Communicated by the Author, ... 60 



IX. Notice of the performance of Steam-Engines in Cornwall for January, 

 February, and March 1829. By W. J. Henwood, F. G. S., Mem- 

 ber of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. Commvuiicated 

 by the Author, . . . 65 



X. Notice respecting a spontaneous emission of Inflammable Gas, near 

 Bedlay, about seven miles north-east from Glasgow. By Thomas 

 Thomson, M. D., F. R. S. L. and E., &c. Regius Professor of Che- 

 mistry Glasgow. Communicated by the Author, . . 67 



