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XXIX. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES, - - - 174 



1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, - - ib. 



2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, - ib. 



XXX. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, - - 175 



I. NATURAL PHILOSOrHV. 



Astronomy. — 1. Observations on Encke's Periodical Comet. 2. Ephemeris 

 of Encke's Comet continued. .3. Comet of September 1827 and September 

 1820. 4. Elements of the Orbit of the Planet Juno, - 175—178 



Meteorology. — 5. Captain Kater's account of the Luminous Zone of the 

 29th September. 6. Observations on the Luminous Arch at Islay- House, 

 Islay. 7' Observations on the Luminous Arch near Edinburgh. 8. Notice 

 of the Mean Temperature of Falmouth and the vicinity. 9. Description of the 

 Luuiinous Arch, as seen at Perth on the 16th October. 10. Aurora Borealis 

 seen at Perth on the 29th October, - - - - 177 — 179 



Electricity. — 11. Foerstemann's Experiments on the conducting Power of 

 different Fluids for Voltaic Electricity, - - - - 179 



II. NATURAL history. 



Mineralogy 12. Notice of the Produce of the Tin Mines of Cornwall and 



Devon. 13. Of the Cornish Copper Mines. 14. Of the quantity of Metallic 

 Copper, the produce of the mines in Great Britain and Ireland, 180 



Geology. — 15. General Summary of the Geology of India. 16. Organic Re- 

 mains at Clash-bennie Quarry in Forfarshire. 17. Fossil Turtle, 181 — 185 



Botany, — 18. Account of the Sensitive Properties of the Stylidium gramini- 



folia. 19. Singular Phenomenon in the Sensitive Plant, - 185—186 



III. GENERAL SCIENCE. 



20. Notice of the Saline Lake of Loonar in Berar. 21. Inflammable Gas after 

 boring for Salt. 22. Bequest to Science by Dr Wollaston and Mr Davies Gil- 

 bert. 23. Adjudication of a Royal Medal to Dr Wollaston. 24. Adjudica- 

 tion of a Royal Medal to M. Encke. 25. Obituary of Members of the 

 Royal Society of London. 26. Two Royal Medals established for the 

 Society of Antiquaries. 186— .187 



XXXI. List of Patents granted in Scotland since September 9, 1828. 187 



XXXII. Celestial Phenomena, from January 1st, to April 1st, 1829, 188 



XXXIII. Summary of Meteorological Observations made at Kendal in Sep- 

 tember, October, and November 1828. By Mr Samuel Mar- 

 shall. Communicated by the Author, - - 190 



XXXIV. Register of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Rain-Gage, kept at 



Canaan Cottage. By Alex. Adie, Esq. F. R. S. Ed. - 192 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



It will give us great pleasure to receive Dr Heineken's Abstract of his Meteoro- 

 logical Journal for 1 828. 



