CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIII. 



NUMBER CXLIX.— JULY, 1843. 



Page 

 Captain James's Remarks on the Variegated Appearances of the 



New and Old Red Sandstone Systems 1 



Dr. Kane on the colouring Matters of the Persian Berries .... 3 

 Prof. J. R. Young's Demonstration of the Rule of Fourier. ... 6 



The Rev. Brice Bronwin on the Problem of Three Bodies 8 



Prof. Johnston on the Sugar of the Eucalyptus 14 



Mr. W. J. Cock on Palladium— Its Extraction, Alloys, &c 16 



Dr. Liebig on the Formation of Fat in the Animal Body 19 



Mr. W. Kemp's Observations on the latest Geological Changes 



in the South of Scotland 28 



Mr. M.J. Roberts on the Analogy between the Phenomena of 



the Electric and Nervous Influences 41 



Notices respecting New Books : — Mr. Noad's Lectures on Che- 

 mistry, illustrated by 106 Wood-cuts 45 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 47 



Geological Society . . 57 



Chemical Society 71 



New Analyses of the Cymophane (Chrysoberyl) of Haddam, 



by M. A. Damour 77 



Action of Nitric Acid on Carbonate of Lime, by M. Barreswil 78 



Meteorological Observations for May 1843 79 



Meteorological Observations made at the Apartments of the 

 Royal Society by the Assistant Secretary, Mr. Roberton; 

 by Mr. Thompson at the Garden of the Horticultural Society 

 at Chiswick, near London; by Mr. Veall at Boston; by the 

 Rev. W.Dunbar at Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire; and 

 by the Rev. C. Clouston at Sandwick Manse, Orkney .... 80 



NUMBER CL.— AUGUST, 



Dr. R. D. Thomson's Examination of the Cowdie Pine Resin. . 81 



The Rev. B. Bronwin's Reply to Mr. Cayley's Remarks 89 



Dr. R. Hare's Additional Objections to Redfields Theory of 



Storms 92 



Dr. Pring on a Method of Etching on Hardened Steel Plates 

 and other Polished Metallic Surfaces by means of Elec- 

 tricity 106 



Series of Propositions for rendering the Nomenclature of Zoo- 



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