ii CONTENTS. 



Art. IX. Notice of a new Scottish Locality for the Linncea 

 horealis. By John S. Bushnan, Esq. Member of 

 the Royal Medical and Plinian Societies of Edin- 

 burgh. Communicated by the Author, - 300 

 X. An Attempt at a New Classification of the Cichora- 

 ceae, with some Observations on the Geographical 

 Distribution of this Family. By Mr David Don, 

 Librarian of the Linnean Society, Member of the 

 Imperial Academy Naturae Curiosorum, of the 

 Royal Botanical Society of Ratisbon, and of the 

 Wernerian Society of Edinburgh, &c. Commu- 

 nicated by the Author, - - - 305 

 XI. The unsatisfactory nature of the '1 heories proposed 

 to account for the Descent of the Radicles in the 

 Germination of Seeds, shown by Experiments. 

 By Henry Johnson, Esq. Member of the Royal 

 Medical Society of Edinburgh, - - 312 



XII. Report of Mr W. E. Cormack's Journey in Search 

 of the Red Indians in Newfoundland. Read be- 

 fore the Baeothick Institution at St John's, New- 

 foundland. Communicated by Mr Cormack, 318 

 XIII. Observations on the Geology of the Meywar Dis- 

 trict. By James Hardie, Esq. Member of the 

 Medical and Physical Societies of Calcutta. Com- 

 municated by the Author, - - 329 



XIV. Observations on the Reproduction of Domestic 



Fowls. By M. Girou de Buzareingues, 336 



XVI. 1. Description of an Improved Blowpipe; 2. On 

 the Ascent of Mercury on Wires of Iron; 3. 

 Experiments on the Electro-magnetic Proper- 

 ties of Carbon when in a State of Combustion. 

 By Mr K. T. Kemp. Communicated by the Au- 

 thor, ----- 340 

 XV. General Considerations on the Nature of the Vege- 

 tation which covered the Earth, at the different 

 Epochs of the Formation of its Crust: Agree- 

 ment of Antediluvian Botany and Zoology ; and 

 Conjectures relative to the Aspect of the Earth, 

 and the Temperature of its Atmosphere, during 

 these Different Epochs. By M. Adolphe Brong- 

 niart, ----- 349 



