CONTENTS. 



Art. I. Biographical Memoir of M. Philippe Pinel. By Ba- ^ 

 ron CuviER, - - - . 205 



II. On the Ergot in Maize, and its Effects on Man and 



Animals. By M. Roulin, - . 217 



III. On Hibernation, and the Action of Cold upon Ani- 



mals, - . . - 219 



IV. General Observations on Univalves. By Charles 



Collier, Esq. Staff-Surgeon at Ceylon. Communi- 

 cated by Sir James Macgrigor, Director-General 

 of the Army Medical Board, F. R. S., &c. &c. 225 



V. An Account of the Inundation of a Coal-work at Beau- 

 jonc, near Leige, belonging to Messrs Colson and 

 Company, and of the remarkable escape of a num- 

 ber of the Miners, - - . 237 

 VI. Sir Frederick Mohs, Professor of Mineralogy in Vi- 

 enna, - - _ _ 250 



VII. Extraordinary Case of Atmospheric Refraction. By 

 John Cruickshank, Esq. Professor of Mathematics 

 in the Marischal College, Aberdeen. (Communi- 

 cated by the Author), - - . 254 

 VIII. Analysis of Galena, from Castleland Hill, near Inver- 

 keithing. By Mr A. Robertson pinior, Inver- 

 keithing. (Communicated by the Author), - 256 

 IX. Notice of a large Greenstone Boulder in the Pentland 

 Hills. By James D. Forbes, Esq. (Communicated 

 by the Author), - - _ 259 

 X. Notice of Earthquakes on the Mississippi. By Mr 



Flint, - - _ . 262 



XI. On the Circumstances which appear to have accom- 

 panied the Deposition of the Tertiary Formations. 

 In a Letter addressed to M. Adolphe Brongniart, 

 by M. Marcel de Serres, - - 264 



XII. On Pasturages, their importance and their extent, in 



the different Countries of Europe, - 272 



