CONTENTS. HI 



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XVIII. Vegetable Physiology, 388 



XIX. Description of several New or Rare Plants which 

 have lately flowered in the neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden. By Dr Graham, Professor of Botany, 389 

 XX. Proceedings of the Royal Society of IMinburgh, 397 

 XXI. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History So- 

 ciety. Continued from vol. xxx. p. 441, . 401 

 XXII. Proceedings of the Society of Arts, 1840-41, . 405 



XXIII. Scientific Intelligence — 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Falling Stars, 425 



GEOLOGY. 



2. Galvanism and Polarity as connected with the Origin 



of the Structure of Rocks, 425 



3. Artesian Wells, 426 



4. M. d'Om alius on the Mineral Beds of Condros, . 426 



5. Geognostic Position of the Diamond, . . , 427 



6. Dartmoor Granite as a building material, . . 429 



GEOGRAPHY. 



7. Expedition up the Euphrates, .... 43Q 



MINERALOGY. 



8. Nitrate of Soda Quarries in Peru; — and Anhydrous 

 Sulphate of Soda, 43 j 



9. New Mineral Species, named Anthosiderite, . 432 



10. Occurrence of "Vanadium in Slags from the Copper 

 Slate, 432 



ZOOLOGY. 



11. Comparative Anthropolgy, . . . . 432 



12. Glarine and Infusoria in the Mineral Springs at Stock- 

 bridge, Edinburgh, Moffat, &c., .... 434 



13. Change of colour of the Lepus Americanus, . 435 



XXIV. New Publications, 435 



1. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Ma- 

 nual of Comparative Anatomy. By Thomas Rymer 

 Jones, Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's 

 College, London, &c., 435 



2. The Glacial Theory of Professor Agassiz. By Charles 

 Maclaren, Esq., F.R.S.E., &c., .... 435 



3. A History of British Star-fishes, and other Animals 

 of the class Echinodennata. By Edward Forbes, 



