CONTENTS 



OF THE 



EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 

 No. XIV. 



Page 

 Art. I. Historical Notice of the Life and Works of M. Breguet. By Ba- 

 ron Fourier, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, - 201 

 II. Account of a French Locality of Vauquelinite. By William Haid- 

 INGER, Esq. F. R. S. E., &c. Communicated by the Author, 213 



III. Description of a remarkable Bronze Relic found on the Sand Hills of 

 Culbin, near the estuary of the River Findhorn. By Sir Thomas Dick 

 Lauder, Bart. F. R. S. E. - - - - 214 



IV. A Metallurgic Memoir on the Nature and History of the Argillaceous 

 Carbonate of Iron. By Hugh CoLauHOUN, M. D. Comifiunicated 



by the Author. - - - - 217 



V. On Sternbergite, a New Mineral Species, By William Haidi3^ger, 

 Esq. F. R. S. E. &c. Communicated by the Author, - 242 



VI. Description of plant used in Bengal as a common green vegetable, 

 iOhis,) and of another nearly allied to it. By Francis Hamilton, 

 M. D. F. R. S. &c. Communicated by the Author, - 244 



VII. On Folyhalite. By William Haidinger, Esq. F. R. S. E. &c. 



Conmiunicated by the Author, - - _ 246 



VIII. Observations on the Temperature of the Atmosphere made by means of 



Balloons. By the Ri/jht Hon. the Earl of Minto, - 249 



IX. A short account of the results of recent Experiments upon the Laws of 

 Light and its Theory. By M. Le Chevalier Fraunhofer, Mem- 

 ber of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences at Munich. (Conclud- 

 ed from p. 1 13,) ... 251 



^. Remarks on the Climate of Naples and its Vicinity ; with an Account of 

 a Visit to the Hot Springs of La Pisavella, Nero's Baths. By a Cor- 

 respondent, - - . . _ 263 



XI. On the Domestic Economy of the Romans in the Fourth century. By 



M. Moreau de Jonnes, Member of the Institute, . ~ 267 



XII. Account of the Periodical Comet of 1819 that revolves within the orbit 



of Jupiter, with a period of 3| years, ... 273 



XIII. Observations on Caverns containing Bones, with an account of the Grotto 



of Oiselles, near Besanqon. By Baron Cuvier, - - 279 



XIV. Notes regarding a Cavern containing Fossil Bones, situated on the pro- 

 perty of M. Gautier, in the Commune of Lunel-Viel. By Dr Alphon- 

 so Menard. Communicated in a Letter from Mr Exshaw of Bour- 

 deaux to John Robison, Esq. F. R. S. Ed. - - 282 



XV. Observations on the History of the Developement of Magnetism by Ro- 

 tation. By S. H. Christie, Esq. M. A. F. R. S. &c. In a Letter 

 to the Editor, - - . . 287 



XVI. On certain Phenomtna of the Great Lakes of America. By De Witt 



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