CONTENTS. i^ 



Art. XXII. Celestial Phenomena from July 1. to October 1. 

 1829, calculated for the Meridian of Edinburgh, 

 Mean Time. By Mr George Innes, Aber- 

 deen, - . . _ . 189 



XXIII. Proceedings of the Wemerian Natural History 



Society. (Continued from former Volume, 



p. 391.), . - - . 192 



XXIV. Scientific Intelligence. 



ASTRONOMY. 



1. Observations on the Comet of Encke, - - igs 



meteorology. 



2. Malaria. 3. Influence of the Aurora Borealis on the Mag- 



netic Needle. 4. Rain at Bombay, - - 19S-4 



GEOGRAPHY. 



5. Mr Professor Kupfer's Journey into Siberia, - 19* 



HYDROGRAPHY. 



6. Level of the Caspian, _ . _ . ib. 



ZOOLOGY. 



7. Height of the Patagonians. 8. Hint to Dissectors of Hu- 



man Bodies. 9. The Giraffe and Unicorn. 10. Female 

 Child with Two Heads. 1 1 . Observations on a Human 

 Monster belonging to a new genus, - 195-197 



BOTANY. 



12. On the Calcareous Crystals which occur in the Tissues 



of living Vegetables, - - - - 199 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



I. Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed. By George Johnston, 

 M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, &c. 

 Vol. I. Phaenogamous Plants, - - - 200 



II. Plantae Asiaticae Rariores ; or. Descriptions and Figures 

 of a Select Number of Unpublished East Indian Plants. 

 By N. Wallich, M. D. &c. - - - ib. 



III. The Influence of Climate in the Prevention and Cure of 

 Chronic Diseases, &c. By James Clark, M. D. Fellow 

 of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 1 Vol. 

 8vo, .. - - - - 202 



