THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 



PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE 



SCIENCES AND THE ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



ROBERT JAMESON, 



REOIVS PBOFESSOB OF NATURAfc'#ISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OP 

 THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH ; 



Fellow Of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh ; of the Antiquarian, Wemerian and Horti- 

 cultural Societies of Edinburgh ; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Royal 

 Dublin Society; Fellow of the Linnean and Geological Societies of London ; Honorary Member 

 of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and of the Cam- 

 bridge Philosophical Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Northern, and Cork Institutions ; 

 of the Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark ; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin ; of the 

 Royal Academy of Naples ; of the Imperial Natural History Society of Moscow ; of the Imperial 

 Pharmaceutical Society of Petersburgh ; of the Natural History Society of Wetterau; of the Ml- 

 neralogical Society of Jena ; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of Dresden ; of the Natural His- 

 tory Society of Paris ; of the Philomathic Society of Paris ; of the Natural History Society of 

 Calvados; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History ; of the Society of Natural Sciences and 

 Medicine of Heidelberg ; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New 

 York ; of the New York Historical Society ; of the American Antiquarian Society ; of the Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the Lyceum of Natiural History of New York ; ef 

 the Natural History Society of Montreal, ^c. ^c 



JANUARY... APRIL 1830. 



TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. 



EDINBURGH : 



PRINTED FOR ADAM BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH ; 



AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROAVN, & GREEN. 



LONDON. 



1830. 



