CONTENTS. 



Page 

 S. Trail, M.D., F.R.S.E., M.W.S., &c. Com- 

 iiiunicated by the Author, . . . a3 



XII. On the Application of the Hypothesis of M. 

 Venetz to the Erratic Phenomenaof the North; 

 in a Letter addressed to M. Macaire, Counsel- 

 lor of State. By M. Jean de Chaupentier, 55 



XIII. Fragments of Philosophy. By Sir William 

 Hamilxon, Bart., Professor of Logic and Me- 

 taphysics in the University of Edinburgh, . 74 

 XIV. Notices of Earthquake- Shocks felt in Great Bri- 

 tain, and especially in Scotland, Avith inferences 

 sug'g'ested by these jiotices as to the causes of 

 the Shocks. By David Milne, Esq., F.R.S.E.. 

 M.W.S., F.G.S., &c. Communicated by the 

 Author, . . . . .85 



XV. Remarks on Earthquakes in British India, con- 

 tained in a Letter addressed to David Milne, 

 Esq. by Lieutenant R. Baird Smith, Beng'al 

 Engineers, Assistant Superintendent of the 

 Doab Canal, Saharunpore, . . . 107 



XVI. Remarks on two points in the Theory of Gla- 

 ciers. By M. Elie de Beaumont, Member of 

 the Royal Academy of Sciences, . .110 



XVII. On the Slopes of the Upper Limit of the Erra- 

 tic Zone, and on their Comparison with the 

 Slopes of Glaciers and of River- Courses. By 

 M. Elie de Beaumont, Member of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences, . . .115 



XVIII. Description of the genus Cuina, and of Two 

 New Genera nearly allied to it. By Henry 

 D. S. GooDsiR, Esq. Communicated by the 

 Author. (No. V.) With Three Plates, 119 



XIX. Description of a Self-Registering Tide-Gauge, 

 invented by Mr John Maxton, Engineer, 

 Leith. With a Plate. Communicated by the 

 Royal Scottish Society of Arts, . .1.30 



XX. Historical Remarks on the first Discovery of the 

 real Structure of Glacier Ice. By Professor 

 Forbes, Corresponding Member of the Royal 

 Institute of France. Communicated by the 

 Author, . . . . 1.3.3 



XXI. On the Natural-Historical Writings of the 



Chinese. By M. Schott, . , . 15.3 



