vm CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Dr. Arnott on tlie Cocculus Indicus of Commerce 597 



Dr. Daubeny on Excretions from the Roots of Vegetables 598 



W. C. Trevelyan on the Distribution of the Phsenogamous Plants 

 of the Faroe Islands 598 



Zoology. 



John Graham Dalyell on the Propagation of certain Scottish 

 Zoophytes 598 



J. O. Westwood on the Transformations of the Crustacea 608 



P. J. Selby's Observations on the Orbital Glands in certain tribes 

 of Birds 609 



P. J. Selby's Notice of Birds observed in Sutherlandshire, June, 

 1834 610 



Sir W. Jardine's Observations on the Salmonidce which were met 

 with during an Excursion to the North-west of Sutherlandshire 

 in June 1834 , 613 



James Wilson's Notice regarding the Coleopterous Insects col- 

 lected during a Tour in Sutherland 615 



M. Agassiz on the different Species of the Genus Salmo which 

 frequent the various Rivers and Lakes of Europe 617 



Dr. Allen Thomson's remarks on some specimens of Reptiles. . 623 



Dr. Traill on the Laryngeal Sac of the Reindeer 623 



J. B. Pentland on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Andes 623 



Geology. 



David Milne on the Geology of Berwickshire 624 



Major-General Lord Greenock on the Coal-fields of Scotland . . 639 

 Dr. HiBBERT on the Ossiferous Beds contained in the Basins of 



the Forth, the Clyde, and the Tay 642 



Dr. Traill on the Geological Structure of the Orkney Islands. . 644 

 Professor Jameson's remarks on the Fossil Fish Cep/ialaspis . . . . 646 



M. AoAssiz on the Fossil Fishes of Scotland 646 



Mr. Maclaren on the Pentland Hills 649 



W. Macgillivray's account of the central Portion of the great 

 Mountain Range of the South of Scotland, in which- arise the 



Sources of the l\veed 650 



C. G. S. Menteath's notice of the Limestone of Closeburn, in re- 

 ply to a Query of the Geological Committee 651 



Dr. Knight's notice of the Flints of Aberdeenshire 651 



R. I. MuRCHisoN on the Old Red Sandstone and other Forma- 

 tions on the Welsh Border 652 



C. Lyell on the Change of Level of the Land and Sea in Scandi- 

 navia 652 



W. GiLBERTsoN on Marine Shells of recent Species found at consi- 

 derable elevations, near Preston 654 



Professor Phillips's Notices in reply to a Question proposed by 



