CONTENTS. 



Abt. I. Biographical Memoir of Sir John Leslie, late Pro- 

 fessor of Natural Philosophy in the University 

 of Edinhurgh, Member of the Institute of France, 

 &C.&C. By Macvet NAPiEBjEsq. F.R.S.L.&E, 

 one of the Professors of Law in the University 

 of Edinburgh, • • . . 1 



IL On Rodizite, a New Mineral Species, from Russia, 32 

 IIL Comparative Remarks on the Distribution of Ve- 

 getation on the greatest Heights of the Hima- 

 layah and of Upper Peru. ByJ.MEYEN. (Read 

 before the Geographical Society of Berlin.) . 34 



IV. Some Remarks on an article of John Davy, 

 M.D., F.R.S. inserted in the Edinburgh New 

 Philosophical Journal, April— July 1834, p. 42, 

 on the Supposed Property of Tin of Preserving 

 Iron from Corrosion in Sea- Water. By A. Van 

 Beek, Member of the Royal Institute of the 

 Netherlands. Communicated by the Author, . 46 

 V. On the Geography and Geology of Northern and 

 Central Turkey. Part II. Geology. By Dr 

 A. Bode'. Communicated by the Author. (Con- 

 cluded from p. 270 of preceding volume.) . 54 

 VI. On the Traces of a Vast Ancient Flood. (From 



Poggendorff's Annalen, 1836.) • • 69 



Additional Remarks by Mr Poggendorft", • • 72 



VII. On the Condition of Fossil Plants, and on the Pro- 

 cess of Petrifaction. By H. R. Goppert, . 73 



