INDEX. 40S 



Land-shelly on the liabits of some of them) 392 

 Low, the Orkney naturalist) 390 



Macgillivray, William, his remarks on Mr NicoVs observations on 



the structure of recent and fossil Conifer®, 369 

 Man, weight of, at diflPerent ages, observations on, by Quetelet, 334 

 Marcel de Serres on extinct animals, 168, 285 

 Medicine, state of, in Turkey, by Dr Oppenheim, 114 

 Memoir on the question, Whether any land animals have ceased to 

 exist since man's formation ? and, Whether man has been con- 

 temporaneous with species now lost, or appearing no longer to 

 have representatives on the earth ? by Marcel de Serres, 168, 

 285 

 Meteorological Table kept at Kinfauns Castle, 389 

 Meteoric stones, origin of, by F. G. Fischer, Esq., 75 

 Method of so far increasing the divergency of the two rays in cal- 

 careous spar that only one image may be seen at a time, 372 

 Migratory habits of certain species of Hirundo and Sylvia, 391 



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Nicol, William, observations on recent and fossil Coniferse, 1^7 — 

 additional observations on recent and fossil coniferse, 310 



Oodipoor, its geology, by Dr Hardie, 59 



Oppenheim, Dr, his observations on the state of medicine in Turkey, 

 114 



Patents, list of, granted at Edinburgh from 24th June to 27th Au- 

 gust 1833, 204, 398 



Proofs that the human bones and works of art found in caves in 

 the south of France, are more recent than the antediluvian 

 bones found in these caves, 302 



Petroleum or mineral-oil, observations and experiments on, by Dr 

 Reichenbach, 376 



Quetelet, his inquiries respecting the weight of man at different 

 ages, 334 



Rattlesnake disarmed by the leaves of the white ash (Fraxinus 



americana, Mich.), by Judge Woodruff, 43 

 Rive, Professor De la, his observations on electricity, and on the 



natural sources of electricity and magnetism, 266 



