THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 



PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITING A VIKW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE 



SCIENCES AND THE ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



ROBERT JAMESON, 



REQIUS PBOFfiSSOK OP NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OF 

 THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; 



Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Ediuburgh ; Honorary Member of tlie Royal Irish Aca- 

 demy ; of the Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark ; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin j 

 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 Lon- 

 don ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; 

 of the Antiquarian, Wemerian Natural Historj', Royal Medical, Royal Physical, and Horticultural 

 Societies of Edinburgh ; of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland ; of 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 

 Society 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 Society 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 

 Philadelphia; 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 Me- 

 chanic Arts; of the Geological Society of Pennsylvania ; of the South African Institution of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, ^c. SfC. Sfc. 



OCTOBER 1837... .APRIL 1838. 



VOL. XXIV. 



TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. 



EDINBURGH : 



ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH; 

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



1838. 



