THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 



PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE 



SCIENCES AND THE A] 



CONDUCTED BY 



ROBERT JAMESO]ffer^:^^ 



RKOIITS PB0FES60B OF NATURAL HISTORY, LECTUKKR OX MINERALOGY, AND KBBPKR OF 

 THB MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 

 Petlow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy ; of the 

 Hoyal Society of Sciences of Denmark ; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin ; of the Royal Academy of 

 Naples ; of the Geological Society of France ; Honorary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; Fellow of 

 the Royal Linnean, and of the Geological Societies of London ; of the Royal Geological Society of Comwall, and 

 of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; of the Antiquarian, Wemerian Natural History, Royal Medical, Royal 

 Physical, and Horticultural Societies of Edinburgh ; of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ; oi 

 the Antiquarian and Literary Society of Perth ; of the Statistical Society of Glasgow ; of the Royal Dublin 

 Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern, and Cork Institutions ; of the Natural History So- 

 ciety of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle ; of the Imperial Pharmaceutical Society of Petersburgh ; of 

 the Natural History Society of Wetterau ; of the Mineralogical Society of Jena ; of the Royal Mineralogical So- 

 ciety of Dresden ; of the Natural History Society of Paris ; of the Philomathic Society of Paris ; of the Natural 

 History Society of Calvados ; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History ; of the Society of Natural Sciences 

 and Medicine of Heidelberg ; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York ; of 

 the New York Historical Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadfclphia ; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York ; of the Natural History Society of Montreal ; of 

 the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts ; of the Geological 

 Society of Pennsylvania ; of the Boston Society of Natural History of the United States ; of the South African 

 Inttitution of the Cape of Good Hope ; Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of France, &c. &c. &c. 



OCTOBER 1839. ...APRIL 1840. 



VOL. XXVIIL 



TO BE CONTINUED QUABTERLY. 



EDINBURGH: 



ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH; 

 LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN & LONGMANS, LONDON. 



1840. 



