CONTENTS. Ill 



XXIII. Scientific Intelligence, - - - 180 



METEOROLOGY. 



I. Extract of Letter from Mr J. Mackintosh, principal 



Lightkeeper, Corsewell, to R. Stevenson, Esq. con- 

 taining a Notice of a Water-Spout. 2. Molybdena 

 and Copper in Meteoric Iron. 3. Barbadoes Hur- 

 ricane of 1831, - - - - 180 



ZOOLOGY. 



4. Comparative Temperature of Whites and Negroes. 

 5. Stature of the Human Race. 6. Gelatine of Bones, 

 7- Faraday on the Planariae. 8. Presence of Entozoa 

 in the Eyes of Animals. 9. On the Formation of 

 Pearls. 10. On the Reproduction of Nerves, by 

 Tiedemann, ... - 181-189 



GEOLOGY. 



II. Vienna — Meeting of Naturalists. 12. Relative Po- 



sition of Granular Rocks. 13. Silver Mines of 

 Kongsberg. - - - 189-194 



MINERALOGY. 



14. Analyses of Limestones of Barjarg and Closebum, 

 in Dumfriesshire, by William Copland, Esq. 15. 

 Analyses of Chabasites. 16. Analyses of Arsenical 

 Pyrites. 17- Harmotome from Strontian. 18. Fer- 

 tilizing Property of Sulphate of Lime, - 194-195 



BOTANY. 



19. Secretion of Water by certain Plants, - - ib. 



HYDROGRAPHY. 



20. Specific Gravity of Ice, - - - 197 



ARTS. 



21. French Ultramarine, - - - ib. 



STATISTICS. 



22. Ancient Price of Labour. 23. Butter. 24. Irish 



Trade with England, - - 198-201 



XXIV. New Publications, - - - 201 



1. Outlines of Physiology and Pathology. By W. P. 



Alison, M. D. F. R. S. E. Professor of Medicine 



in the University of Edinburgh, - - ib. 



2. Essay on the Natural History, Origin, Composition, 



and Medicinal Eflfects, of Mineral and Thermal 

 Sprngs. By Meredith Gardner, M. D. - 202 



