CONTENTS. 



IV. Observations on the Hurricanes and Storms of the 

 West Indies and the Coast of tlie United States. 

 By W. C. Redfield, Esq. With a Chart, 307 



V. On the Differences of the Laws regulating Vital and 

 Physical Phenomena. By William B. Carpen- 

 ter, M. R. C. S., late President of the Royal Me- 

 dical and Royal Physical Societies of Edinburgh. 

 Communicated by the Author, . 827 



VI. Observations on Rabies or Madness in Dogs, Oxen, 

 Horses, Pigs, and Sheep. By Dr Wagner, Me- 

 dico-Forensic Censor of the Schieben District, 353 



VII. Analysis of Gmelinite or Hydrolite. By A. Con- 

 NELL, Esq., F.R.S.E. &c. Communicated by the 

 Author. . • 360 



VIII. Upon Glaciers, Moraines, and Erratic Blocks ; be- 

 ing the Address delivered at the opening of the 

 Helvetic Natural History Society, at Neuchatel, 

 on the 24th of July 1837, by its President, M. L. 

 Agassiz, . . . 364 



IX. Notice of Observations made on the Rapidity of Mo- 

 tion, and on the Duration of Stoppages on the 

 Liverpool and Manchester Railway. By Edward 

 Sang. Esq. F.R.S.E., late V.P. S. A,, Lecturer on 

 Natural Philosophy, &c, Edinburgh, (Communi- 

 cated by the Society of Arts.) . 383 



X. Theory of Granite, and the other Massive Rocks ; 

 together with that of Crystalline Slate ; proposed 

 in Lectures in Geology, in the University of Chris- 

 tiania in Norway, in the year 1836. By B. M. 

 Keilhau, Professor of Mineralogy, . 387 



1. Granite and Syenite, . . 390 



2. Porphyry without Quartz ; Amygdaloid and Basaltic 



formations. . . . 392 



3. Eurite-Porphyr}', Greenstones, &c. . 394 



4. Rhombic Porphyry, ... 396 



5. Facts that seem to require the rejection of the igneous 



origin of the rocks above mentioned, . 399 



