THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 

 PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE 



IfilENCES AND THE ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



OBERT JAMESON, 



NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINKRALOGY, AND KBBFBR OF 

 THB MU8BUM IN THB UNIVERSITY OP EDINBURGH ; 



Fellow Of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; of the Antiquarian, Wemerian and Horti- 

 cultural Societies of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Royal 

 Dublin Society; Fellow of the Royal Linnean and Royal Geological Societies of London ; Ho- 

 norary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 

 and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern, 

 and Cork Institutions ; of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and New- 

 castle ; of the Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark ; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin ; 

 of the Royal Academy of Naples ; of the Imperial Natiiral History Society of Moscow ; of the 

 Imperial Pharmaceutical Society of St Petersburgh ; of the Natural History Society of Wetterau ; 

 of the Mineralogical Society of Jena ; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of Dresden ; of the 

 Natural History Society of Paris; of the Phllomathic Society of Paris; of the Natural History 

 Society of Calvados; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History ; of the Society of Natural 

 Sciences and Medicine of Heidelberg; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 of New York ; of the New York Historical Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the Lyceum of Natiural History of New 

 York ; of the Natural History Society of Montreal; of the Geological Society of France; of the 

 South African Institution of the Cape of Good Hope ; of the Franklin Institution of the State of 

 Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, S[c. Sfc 



OCTOBER 1833.... APRIL 1834. 



VOL. XVI. 



TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. 



EDINBURGH: 



ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH ; 



AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN, 



LONDON. 



1834. 



