CONTENTS. 



XVIII. SciENTH-ic Intelligence, • 221 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Storm at Constantinople, • • • 220 



2. Great Meteor observed at Paris on tlie 21st Septem- 



ber 1837, ..... 221 



3. Aurora Borealis, ..... 222 



GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



4. The Lartington-Hall Museum of Natural History, 223 



5. On the increase of Temperature in the interior of the 



Earth, 224 



C. Effects of Clearing a Country, ... 225 



7. Fossil Bones of Sansan, .... 225 



8. IMutl Volcanoes, .... 22« 



9. Morphology of Rocks, .... 226 



10. Height of Waves, .... 22? 



11. Gas of the Sacred Fires of Bakou, near the Caspian Sea, 227 



12. Volcano of Aconcagua in Chili, . . 227 



13. Un intermediate Chemical Combinations which have 



not yet been detected by Chemists, . . 228 



1 4. Tantalate of Iron and of ]Manganese, . . 228 



15. Artificial Ilubies, .... 228 



BOTANY. 



IG. Remarks on Dr Wight's paper rcgaiding the Tree 



which produces the Gamboge of Commerce, 229 



17- Discovery oi' Carex Lcporina, Liniu, near the summit 



of IjOch-na-Gar, .... 230 



18. ]Mac<iuart and Hope's Experiments on the Colours of 



Plants, . . . . . 231 



10. On the Floating Masses of Fucus occurring near the 



Cape Verd Islands, . . . . 23l' 



ZOOLOGY. 



20. Ehrenberg's discovery of Stomachs in the Baccillaria-, 232 



21. Experiments on the Plague, . . - 232 



22. White Phosjihorescent Tract of Sea in the Persian 



Gult; 232 



NECROLOGY. 



23. Death of Dr IMeredith Gairdner, . . 2^3 

 XIX. New Publication. 



History of British Quadrupeds, including the Cetacoa. By 

 Thomas Bell, Esq., F. R. S., &c. 1 vol. 8vo, with numerous 

 plates. 



XX. List, of Patents granted in Scotland from 2d Oc- 

 tober to 'JOth December 1837, . . 233 



TO THE BINDER. 

 It is niQuculcd that pages 331 to 338 inchmivc of last Number ( Vol. XXIII.) 

 be cancelled, and that the payes appended to this Number be substituted, t 



