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Prof. J. D. Forbes on the Refraction and Polarization of Heat 



(concluded,) 366 



Proceedings of the Royal Society . „ 371 



Geological Society 376 



• • Linnsean Society 379 



Zoological Society 380 



Royal Institution of Great Britain 394 



Cambridge Philosophical Society 395 



Inquiry respecting the Existence of Provincial Literary and 

 Scientific Institutions — Mr. L. Horner on the Quantity of 



Solid Matter suspended in the Water of the Rhine 396 



Fall of a Meteorite in India, on the 8th of June 1834<-- Queries 

 on some Points connected with the Undulatory Theory, by 



A Correspondent 398 



Detection of Minute Portions of Sulphur— Conversion of Sugar 



into Formic Acid and Ulmin — Scientific Books 399 



Meteorological Observations 400 



NUMBER XXXVI.— JUNE. 



Mr. Beke on the Historical Evidence of the Advance of the 

 Land upon the Sea at the Head of the Persian Gulf; with 

 some brief Remarks on the Gopher-toood of Scripture, in 

 Reply to Mr. Carter 401 



Mr. L. Tonna*s Remarks on some curious Facts respecting 

 Vision described in the Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag, for 

 1834 409 



Dr. Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity. — 

 Eighth Series {concluded,) 410 



Mr. R. Addams's Notice of some Experiments which show a 

 repulsive Action between heated Surfaces and certain pul- 

 verulent Bodies 415 



Prof. T. Graham on Water as a Constituent of Salts. In the 

 Case of Sulphates (concluded) 417 



Notice of the Arrival of Twenty-six of the Summer Birds of 

 Passage in the Neighbourhood of Carlisle,, during the Spring 

 of 1834, to which are added a few Observations on some of 

 the scarcer Birds that have been obtained in the same Vici- 

 nity from the 10th of November 1833 to the 10th of No- 

 vember 1834 424 



Mr. E. M. Clarke on certain Optical Effects of the Magnetic 

 Electrical Machine, and on an Apparatus for decomposing 



Water by its means 427 



Mr. J. Nixon's Trigonometrical Height of Ingleborougli above 

 the Level of the Sea. Part II. {concluded) 429 



