CONTENTS 



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 Art. I. Biographical Memoir of Michel Adanson. Read to 



the Institute of France by Baron Cuvier, - ] 



II. Notes on the Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). In a 

 Letter addressed to Thomas Stuart Traill, M. D. &c. 

 By John J. Audubon, F. R. S. E. M. W. S. &c. 

 Communicated by the Author, - » 21 



III. On the Rein-deer. 1. Its Naturalization in Scotland. 



2. Its Food. 3, Rein-deer Milk, and preparations 

 made from it. 4. Speed of the Rein-deer. 5. Rein- 

 deer eats the Lemming. 6. On the Furia inferna- 

 lis, - - - - - - 30 



IV. Account of a simple Apparatus for collecting the 



Gases evolved from Liquids submitted to Galvanic 

 Action. By the Rev. Mr A. Robertson jun. Inver- 

 keithing. Communicated by the Author, - 44 



V. Account of an Ascent to the Crater of the Great Vol- 

 cano of Kirauea. By the Rev. Charles Stewart, 

 late Missionary at Hawaii, - - - 45 



VI. Observations and Experiments on the different kinds 

 of Coal. ByM. Karsten. (Continued from p. 296. 

 of preceding volume), - - - go 



VII. On the substance called Fine Linen in the Sacred 

 Writings. By the Rev. David Scot, M. D. M. W. S. 

 &c. Communicated by the Author, - 71 



VIII. Account of the Capture of a colossal Orang-Ou- 

 tang in the Island of Sumatra, and Description of 

 its Appearances. By Dr Clark Abel. (Concluded 

 from p. 375. of preceding volume), - - 81 



IX. Description of the Hindoo Bellows, with Remarks on 

 the occurrence of a similar Bellows in Europe. By 

 W. A. Cadell, Esq. F. R.S.L. & E., M.W.S. &c. 

 Communicated by the Author, - - 84 



