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CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



I. iJOME Information respecting the Lignum Rhodiutn of 

 Pococke's Travels, in a Letter to Alexander MacLeay, 

 Esq. F.R.S.Sec. L.S. By Sir James Edward Smith, 

 M.D.F.R.S.Pr.L.S.,4-c. .... p. 1 



II. Of the Formation of the Vegetable Epidermis. By the 

 Rev. Patrick Keith, F.L.S. ... - p. 6 



III. On the Classification of the Natural Tribe of Insects 

 NoTONECTiDEs, with Descriptions of the British Species. 



By William Elford Leach, M.D. F.R.S. and L.S. p. 10 



IV. Some Remarks on the Natural History of the Black 

 I'- Stork, for the first time captured in Great Britain. By 



George Montagu, Esq. F.L.S. - - - p. 19 



V. Some Account of the Tantalus Ephoiiskyca, a rare A merican 

 Bird. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. F.M.L.S. p. 24 



VI. Observations on the Orchis militaris of Linneeus. By Mr. 

 J. E. Bicheno, F.L.S. p. 28 



VII. Glyphis and Chiodecton, tno new Genera of the 

 Family of Lichenes, with Descriptions and Figures of the 

 Species hitherto discovered. By Erik Acharius, M.D. 

 F.M.L.S. ..-.--. p. 35 



VIII. On the Power of Sarracenia adunca to entrap Insects. 

 In a Letter to Sir J. E. Smith, Pres. Linn. Soc, from 

 James Macbride, M.D., of South Carolina p. 48 



IX. Observations on the Nature and Formation of the Stone 

 incrusting the Skeletons which have been found in the 

 Island of Guadaloupe, with some Account of the Origin 

 of those Skeletons. In a Report made to General Ernouf, 



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