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VII. Observations on South American and African 

 Guano. By John Davy, M.D., F.R.S. Lond. 

 and Ed. Communicated by the Author, 290 



VIII. On the Physical Charactersof the Esquimaux. 

 By Richard King, M.D. Communicated 

 to this Journal by the Ethnological Society 

 of London, . • . . . 296 



IX. On the Theory of Parallel Lines. By Henry 

 Meikle, Esq., A.M. Communicated by the 

 Author, . . . . .310 



X. On the Light thrown on Geology by Subma- 

 rine Researches ; being the Substance of a 

 communication made to the Royal Institu- 

 tion of Great Britain, on Friday Evening, the 

 23d February 1844. By Edward Forbes, 

 F.L.S., M.W.S., &c., Prof. Bot. King's Col- 

 lege, London. Communicated by the Author, 318 



XI. The Geological Arrangement of Ancient 

 Strata deduced from the condition of the pre- 

 sent Oceanic Beds. By William Rhind, 

 Esq., . . . . .327 



XII. Remarks on the Entomology of Angola, with 

 reference to the Distribution of Insects in 

 Africa. By Professor Erichson of Berlin, 334 



XIII. On the Incipient Disengagement of Elastic 



Fluids. By John Thomas Woodhouse, 

 M.D., Senior Fellow of Caius College, Cam- 

 bridge. Communicated by the Author, . 338 



XIV. On the Mode of Formation of Crystalline 



Limestone, Contact Products, Crystalline 

 Silicide- Slates, and Unstratified Crystalline 

 Silicide-Rocks ; with Preliminary Observa- 

 tions on the present state of Geology, and 

 on the Methods of Investigation pursued in 

 that^ Science. ByB. M. Keilhau, Professor of 

 Geology in the University of Christiania. 

 Communicated by the Author, . .341 



XV. Notices of Earthquake- Shocks felt in Foreign 

 countries, and in Britain. By David Milne, 

 Esq., F.R.S.E., M.W.S., F.G.S., &c. Com- 



