CONTENTS OF VOL. V. 



MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, kc. 



Page, 

 Doct John Beckwlth on the natural walls or dykes, of North Carolina, I 

 Mr. D. II. Barnes' Geological Section of the Canaan Mountains, &:c. 

 (with a plate,) ---.,---- 8 



Prof. A.Eaton on a singular deposit of gravel, - - - - 22 



Honourable notice of INIr. Schoolcraft's Memoir of a Fossil tree, - 523 

 James Pierce, Esq. on the Geology, Mineralogy, and Scenery of the 



Highlands of New-York and New-Jersey, - - - - 2& 



On certain rocks supposed to move without any apparent cause — by an 



anonymous Correspondent, (with a plate,) - - - • 3-1 



Letter from Prof Dana, on Putnam's Rock, - - .- - 37 



Editor's Miscellaneous Notices in Mineralogy and Gcolog)', - - 39 



Doct, J. G. Percival on the Sulphate of Barytes, fee. in Berlin, Conn. 

 &c. . . . ' 42 



Mr. John S. Bigsby's outline of the Mineralogy and Geolog}' of Malbay, 

 Lower Canada, (with a sketch,) , , - - 



Mr. Schoolcraft's remarks on the prints of human feet in Limestone, 

 (with a plate,) 223 



Hon. Thomas H. Benton^s letter on this subject, - « - 228 



Professor Amos Eaton's outline of the Geology of the highlands, on the 

 Hudson, - 231 



Doct John Torrey's description and analysis of a new ore of Zinc, 



Mr. Thomas Nuttall's obseri'ations and Geological remaiJiS-mi-^^**^ Min- 

 erals of Patterson and Sparta, N. J._^ — T"*"^ ' ' ^^'^ 



Professor Dewey's notice of crystallizea&teatite, and of ores of Iron 



205 



and Manganese 



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249 



Professor Green's notice of a mineralized tree — rocking stone, &:c. 251 



Editor's miscellaneous localities of minerals, - - - 254 



Professor Olmstead's descriptive catalogue of rocks and minerals, col- 

 lected in North Caroliiia, -_•,-,. 257 

 Several catalogues of Minerals presented to the Geological Society, 265 

 Geological Poems, _.-.«- 272 



ZOOLOGY. 



Doct. Mitchell's account of a group of polypes, - * 4S 



BOTANY. 



Mr. Lewis D. de Schweinitz's Monography of the Linnean Genus Vi- 

 ola, . . , . - r - - 48 



Mr. Thomas NuttalPs catalogue of a collection of plants from East 

 Florida -.---.- 28G 



MATHEMATICS. 



Professor A. M. Fisher, on Maxima and Minima of two variable quan- 



titles, .•.------- o*. 



Review of the Cambridge course of Mathematics, • - - ^4 



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