CONTENTS. iii 



Art. XXV. Account of Mr Crawford's Mission to Ava, 359 



XXVI. Notice of a new Calceolaria, and of Nepenthes dis- 

 tillatoria, mas., which have lately flowered in 

 the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Com- 

 municated by Dr Graham, - - 371 



XXVII. Celestial Phenomena from October 1. 1827 to Ja- 



nuary 1. J 828, calculated for the Meridian of 

 Edinburgh, Mean Time. By Mr George Innes, 

 Aberdeen, - - .. . 373 



XXVIII. Scientific Intelligence. 



- meteorology. 

 1 . Squalls of Wind on the African Shore. 2. Sound heard at 

 a great distance. 3. Method of reducing Barometrical 

 Observations to a standard temperature. 4. Aurora seen 

 in the day-time at Canonmills. 5. Aurora Borealis. 6. 

 Meteor. 7. Luminous Cross in the Heavens. 8. Polar 

 Lights in Siberia, - - - » 376-381 



hydrography. 

 9. Water of the Dead Sea. 10, Analysis of the Water of the 

 River Sagis in Siberia. 11. Dr Daubeny's Circular re- 

 questing information in regard to Mineral Waters, 381, 382 



geology. 

 12. Rule to be followed in examining Caves containing Fossil 

 Animal Remains. 13. On Chains of European Moun- 

 tains. 14. Death of Professor Brocchi. 15. Discovery 

 of Fossil Mammalia in Auvergne. 1 6* TenerifFe Filter- 

 ing Stone, - 382-384 



mineralogy. 

 17* Hydrosilicite, a New Mineral Species. 18. Chrome in dif- 

 ferent Minerals. I9. Fluoric and Muriatic Acids in 

 Apatite. 20. Glaukolite, a new Mineral Species. 21. 

 Ilmenite is Axotomous Iron-glance. 22. Apatite in Se- 

 condary Trap and Trachyte. 23. Boracic Acid in Mica. 

 24. Curved Lamellar Heavy-Spar a new Species. 25. 

 Fluoric Acid in Felspar, - - - » 385, 386 



BOTANY. 



26. Botany of the Dutch East India Possessions. 27- Com- 

 mon Sugar existing in the form of grains in the flowers 

 of Rhododendron ponticum. 28. On the Cotton of the 

 Ancients. 29- Brick Tea, - . - . 386-388 



