Art. VY. 
Wi. 
War, 
VILE 
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XI. 
XII. 
CONTENTS. 
Laurence Hitt Junior, Esq., F.R.S.S.A., 
Civil-Engineer. With a Plate. Communi- 
cated by the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 
On a Method of rendering Baily’s Compensa- 
tion Pendulum insensible to Hygrometric 
Influence. By Mr Rosert Bryson, F.R.S.E., 
Watchmaker, Edinburgh. Communicated by 
the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 
An Account of some Experiments tending to 
illustrate the Formation of Guano. By Joun 
Davy, M.D., F.R.SS. Lond. & Ed., Inspec- 
tor-General of Army Hospitals, L.R. Com- 
municated by the Author, 
On the Heights of Mountains, &c., in Norway, 
I. Heights in the different Amts, 
II. Height of the Snow-Line, 
III. Limit of the Birch Tree, 
IV. Limit of the Scotch Fir, 
V. Limit of the Spruce Fir, : ° 
On the Physical Facts contained in the Bible 
compared with the Discoveries of the Modern 
Sciences. By Marven DE SERRES, 
On Earthquakes and Extraordinary Movements 
of the Sea; and on remarkable Lunar Perio- 
dicities in Earthquakes, Oscillations of the 
Sea, and Great Atmospherical Changes. ss) 
Ricuarp Epmonps Jun., Esq., 
. On the Constitution of the Ichthyolites of 
Stromness. By Anprew Fremine, A.M., 
M.D. Communicated by the Author, 
On the Determination of Heights by the Boil- 
ing Point of Water. By James D. Foxrszs, 
Esq., F.R.S., Sec. R.S. Ed., Corresponding 
Member of the Institute of France, and Pro- 
fessor of Natural Philosophy in the Univer- 
sity of Edinburgh. With Two Plates, 
Remarks on the Cirripedia, with Descriptions 
of several Species found adhering to Vessels 
from Ichaboe, on the West Coast of Southern 
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