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Annual Reports of the Railroad Corporations in the State of Mas- 

 sachusetts for 1838. 



First Report on the Geology of tiie Public Lands in the State of 

 Maine. 



Report on a Re-examination of the Economical Geology of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Statistical Tables exhibiting the condition and products of certain 

 Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, for the year 1837. 



Second Report of the Agriculture of Massachusetts. 



Reports of the Commissioners of the Zoological Survey of the State 

 of Massachusetts. 



Reports on the Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds, of Massachusetts 



By the Family of the late Dr Bowdilch. 



Second Part of the twentieth volume of the Asiatic Researches. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for February and March 

 1 839. — By the Society. 



Transits as observed, and calculation of the Apparent Right As- 

 cension at the Cape of Good Hope, 1834. 



Zenith Distances observed with the Mural Circle, at the Royal Ob- 

 servatory, Cape of Good Hope, and the calculation of the Geo- 

 centric South Polar Distances, 1836 and 1837. 



Bessel's Refraction Tables. 



Observations of Halley's Comet, made at the Royal Observatory, 



Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1835 and 1836 By Thomas 



Maclear, Esq. 



On the Declinations of the Principal Fixed Stars, deduced from 

 Observations made at the Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 



in 1832 and 1833. By Thomas Henderson, Esq By the 



Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 



Prospectus and Illustrations of the Natural History of the Scottish 

 Salmonidae. By Sir William Jardine, Bart. — By the Author. 



The following communications were read : — 

 1. On the Effect of the Mechanical Texture of Screens on the 

 immediate Transmission of Radiant Heat. By Professor 

 Forbes, 



The following memorandum was communicated at the for- 

 mer Meeting of the Society. 



" On the 2d September ] 839, M. Arago communicated to the 

 Academy of Sciences a letter by M. Melloni, containing some very 

 interesting experiments on the transmission of Radiant Heat. M. 



