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 GENERAL VIEWS ON ARCHEOLOGY— Subject of Races— Continued. 



Ancient knives 313 



Domestic animals 315 



IV. Physical Changes 317 



Decrease of saltness of the sea 318 



Level of the land 318 



Sweden 319 



Geological antiquity of man 319 



V. Comparison of the North with Switzerland 321 



Lacustrine habitations 321 



Reason for the lacustrine habitations 324 



Age of stone 324 



Age of bronze 327 



First age of iron t .*. 328 



Human races 332 



Domestic animal races and wild species 334 



VI. Chronological Question 336 



Ancient commercial relations ,. 338 



Ancient civilization of the North 339 



Absolute chronology 340 



Cone of the Tiniere 340 



THE MICROSCOPE— From " Aus der Natur," &c 344 



SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS OF CARLSRUHE. By M. J. Nickles 



MEMOIR OF RENE-JUST HAUY. Ey Baron Cuvier 37G 



NOTICES OF THE PROGRESS OF OUR KNOWLEDGE REGARDING THE 



MAGNETIC STORMS. By Major General Edw. Sabine 393 



METEOROLOGY. 1. On the Disappearance of Ice. By R. H. Gardiner 401 



2. Difference of Temperature in different parts of St. 



Louis, Mo. By A. Fendler . 403 



3. Best hours for observations of Temperature. By Prof. 



Chester Dewey 413 



4. Description of the Smithsonian Anemometer 414 



NATURAL HISTORY. 1. Suggestions for saving parts of Birds' Skeletons. Ey 



Alfred Newton 417 



2. Notes on the Wingless Grasshopper of Shasta and Fall 



River Valleys, California; and a plan for keeping them 

 out of fields. By Edw. P. Vollum 422 



3. Letter relative to the obtaining of specimens of Flamingoes 



and other birds from South Florida. By Gustavus 



WuRDEMAN 426 



4. On the habits of the Pouched Rat, or Salamander, of Georgia. 



By William Gesner ..„ 431 



5. Catalogue of the Birds of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 



with their times of arrival in Spring, from observations an- 

 nually for ten successive years. By Vincent Barnard 434 



G. On the Forests and Trees of Florida and the Mexican 



Boundary. By Dr. J. G. Cooper 439 



7. Errata and Corrections in the article by Dr. Cooper in 



Smithsonian Report for 1858 442 



