CONTENTS. 



burgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden. 



By Dr Graham, Professor of Botany, . 397 ' 



XXXVII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 400 



XXXVIII. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History So- 



ciety. Continued from p. 200, . 407 



XXXIX. Proceedings of the Microscopical Society, 414 



XL. Scientific Intelligence in Geology, Mi- 

 neralogy, &c. . • • 416 



i. Lantan, a new Metal, . . . .416 



2. Chemical Composition of Datolite and Botryolite, 417 



3. Andalusite and Chiastolite, varieties of the same Species, 417 



4. Chemical Composition of Mikrolin, . . 417 



5. Chemical Composition of Monazite, . • 417 



6. Mineralogical Optical Notice by Babinet, . 418 



7. Malthacite, a new Mineral Species, . . 418 



8. Serpentine Crystals of Snarum in Norway, . 418 



9. Opaline-Allophane, ..... 418 



10. Davidsonite, ..... 419 



11. Perikline, .... 419 



12. Chloritoide, . . . . -419 



13. Scale for the Fusibility of Minerals, . -419 



14. Recent Deposits of Salt, .... 420 



15. Height of the Coast Line of Fuci, . 420 



16. Oxides of Tin and Copper in Spring Water, . 42O 



17. Analysis of Fossil Bones, . . . 420 



18. On the Minute Animals found in Substances during 



the Process of Putrefaction, . . . 421 



XL. New Publications, . . . . 422 



1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Edited by 



the Acting Secretaries, .... 422 



2. Madras Journal of Literature and Science. Number 2d, 



year 1839, from April to July, . . 422 



3. Asiatic Researches, Part H. vol. xx. Calcutta, 1839, 423 



4. The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle, No. I. 



Part IV. Fish. By the Rev. Leonard Jenyns, 

 A. M., F. L. S. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 423 

 ."i. lUustr xtions of the Zoology of Southern Africa. By 



Dr Smith. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., . 424 



6. Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals of 



the British Islands. By David Low, Esq., F.B.S.E., 

 Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edin- 

 burgh. Part I., . . . . 424 



7. Traite' Elem^ntaire de Conchyliologie, avec I'applica- 



tion de cctte Science a la G^ognosie. Par G. P. 

 Deshayes. Livi-aisons, 1 — 5. . . 405 



XLI. List of Patents granted for Scotland from 21st De- 

 cember 1839 to 18th March 1840, . 423 

 Index, ...... 429 



Erratum, page 371, last line ; for 350 read 366. 



