CONTENTS. 



VIII. On the Meteoric Showers of November 1836. By 

 Dennison Olmsted, Professor of Natural Phi- 

 losophy and Astronomy in Yale College, . 82 



1. Observations made at Springvale Maine. Extract of a 



Letter from Samuel Dunster, Esq. Agent of the Frank- 

 lin Manufacturing Company, . . 84 



2. Observations at Cambridge, Mass. ; published in the 



Boston Courier, November 14, . . 86 



3. Observations at Yale College, . . 86 



4. Observations at New York. From the New York Ame- 



rican of November 15,.. . 86 



6. Observations at Newark, New Jersey. From the New- 

 ark Daily Advertiser, ... 88 



6. Observations at Randolph Macon College, Virginia. By 



Professor E. Tolefree. Communicated in a Letter to 



the Writer of this Article, ... 88 



7. Observations made in South Carolina. From the 



Charleston Courier of November 25, . 88 



IX. On Unity of Function in Organized Beings. By 

 William Carpenter, M.R.C.S, Senior Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Medical Society, and President 

 of the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh. Com- 

 municated by the Author, . • 92 



X. Qn certain Modified Forms assumed by the Indnc- 

 tive Process in different Sciences ; being an at- 

 tempt to elucidate and extend some Doctrines of 

 the Novum Organum. By Robert Mortimer 

 Glover, Esq. Communicated by the Author, 115 



XI. Organic Remains in the Old Red Sandstone of 

 Fife. By the Reverend John Anderson, Mi- 

 nister of Newburgh. Communicated by the 

 Author, ..... 137 



XII. On the Fossil Organic Remains found in the Coal 

 Formation at Wardie, near Newhaven. By Ro- 

 bert Paterson, M. D. Member of the Werne- 

 rian Natural History Society of Edinburgh, &c. 

 Communicated by the Author, . . 146 



XIII. On the Account of the Creation in the First Chap- 

 ter of Genesis. By Charles Babbagb, Eiq. 

 F.R.S.E., .... I'jiJ 



