CONTENTS. 



Art. I. DeathofCuviER, - - ^ - - Page 209^ 



II. Vegetable Physiology in Relation to Rotation of Crops. 



By M. Macaire, - - - - 215 



III. A few Notes upon the Dark Days of Canada. By the 

 Honourable Chief-Justice Sewell, President of the Li- 

 terary and Historical Society of Quebec, - - 221 

 IV. Hygrometrical Observations made at Bancoorah in 

 Bengal. By George Macritchie, Esq. Communi- 

 cated by the Author, - - _ - 230 

 V. On an Acid Liquid obtained through the Agency of Po- 

 tash on Alcohol ; and on the Nature of the Lampic Acid. 

 By Arthur Connell, Esq. F. R. S. E. Communicated 

 by the Author, - - - - - 231 

 VL On the Instincts of Birds. By John Blackwall, Esq. 



F.L.S., 241 



VII. Additional Remarks on Ercilla, Macromeria, Aitonia, and 

 Citronella. By David Don, Esq. Librarian of the Lin- 

 nean Society ; Member of the Imperial Academy Natura? 

 Curiosorum ; of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 

 Moscow; of the Royal Botanical Society of Ratisbon; 

 and of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh, &c. Com- 

 municated by the Author, - - . 26l 

 VIII. Geology of the Valley of Oodipoor. By James Hardie, 

 ■Esq. Bengal Medical Establishment, Member of the 

 Asiatic Society, &c. Communicated by the Author, 26S 

 IX. The Life and Writings of Francis Huber. By Professor 



A. P. De Candolle, - - - - ^S 



