23ii 



A Eulogy on the Life and Cliaracter of Nathaniel Bowdich, 

 LL. D., F. R. S. By Daniel Appleton White. 



A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Nathaniel Bow- 

 dich, LL. D., F. R. S. By Alexander Young. 



Bi/ the American Academy. 



Journal of the Statistical Society of Loudon for December 1838. 



£1/ the Society. 



Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society for the Years 

 1831-37. Vol. vii By the Society. 



The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 

 Vol. viii. Parts 2, 3. — By the Society. 



A Sketch of the Geology of Fife and the Lothians, including de- 

 tailed Descriptions of Arthur's Seat and Pentland Hills. By 

 Charles Maclaren, Esq., F. R. S. E — By the Author. 



The American Journal of Science and the Arts. 



Conducted by Benjamin Silliman jun., A. B.—By the Editor. 



Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino. Tome xl. 

 — By the Academy. 



Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Vol. ii By 



the Institution. 



Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de I'Academie des 

 Sciences (1838, 2"'= Semestre). Nos. 23, 24, 23 By the Aca- 

 demy. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. April, May, Jane, 

 1838 By the Society. 



The following Communications were read : 



1. Notice respecting an Intermitting Brine Spring discharging 

 Carbonic Acid Gas, near Kissingen in Bavaria. By 

 Professor Forbes. 



The watering-place of Kissingen is situated in north latitude 

 49'' 50' east longitude, 9" 50' from Greenwich, 60 English miles 

 east of Frankfort. Long before it was frequented for medical pur- 

 poses, its salt springs were turned to profitable account. Of these 

 there are several, but the one recently enlarged by boring, known 

 under the name of the Runde Brunnen, is much more remarkable 

 than the others, on account of its Copiousness, its Temperature, its 

 discharge of Carbonic Acid Gas in vast quantity, and its extraor- 

 dinary phenomenon of Intermission. 



The spring rises through the new red sandstone, of which the 



