CONTENTS. vii 



XI. Meteorological Observations made at Regent Ter- 



race, Edinburgh, for each month of the year 1837. 

 By Alexander Adie, Esq. , 403 



XII. Kinfauns Meteorological Table for 1837, . 404 



XIII. Abstract of a Meteorological Journal for the year 

 1837, kept at Anderson's Institution, Elgin. By 

 Mr Allan, . . . 405 



XIV. Summary of Observations of the Barometer, Tlier- 

 mometer, &c. for the year 1837, made at the 

 Manse of the Parish of Abbey St Batlians, Ber- 

 wickshire. By the Rev. John Wallace, 406 



XV. Meteorological Table for St Andrews in Fifeshire, 



from 1828 to 1828, . . 407 



XVI. An Attempt to ascertain Characters of the Botanical 

 Alliances. By Sir Edward Ffrench Brom- 

 head, Bart. M. A., F. R. S. L. & E. (Communi- 

 cated by the Author.) . . 408 



XVII. Description of several New or Rare Plants which 

 have lately Flowered in the Neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, chiefly in the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 den. By Dr Graham, Prof, of Botany, . 420 



XVIII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 423 



1. On the Food of the Vendace, Herring and Salmon. 

 By John Stark, Esq. 2. llemaiks on the Ossiferous 

 Caves of Cefn, in Denbighshire. By Professor Traill. 

 3. Experiments on the Growth of the Fry of the Sal-, 

 mon, from the exclusion of the Ova to the age of seven 

 months. By Mr John Shaw. 4. On the Terrestrial 

 Mechanism of the Tides. By John Scott Russell, 

 Esq. 



XIX. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History So- 

 ciety. (Continued from p. 209.) . 427 



XX. Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 428 



XXI. Scientific Intelligence, . 431 



PHYSIOLOCy. 



I. On the Gases contained in tiie Blood, and on llcspira- 

 tion. By M. G. Magnus, . . i.fl 



