THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 



PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE 



PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS 



IN THE 



SCIENCES AND THE ARTS. 



\ 



, ^- j CONDUCTED BY 



ROBERT JAMESON, 



RESaUS PJHOFBSSOS «F NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OF 

 " — «^— - " THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH; 



Fellow of the Royal Sodeties of London and Edinburgh ; of the Antiquarian, Wemerlan and Horti- 

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

 Dublin Society ; Fellow of the Royal, Linnean and Royal Geological Societies of London ; Ho- 

 norary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 

 and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern, 

 and Cork Institutions ; of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and New- 

 castle ; 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 Mineralogical Society of Jena ; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of Dresden ; of the 

 Natural History Society of Paris; of the Plulomathlc Society of Paris; of the Natural History 

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

 Sciences aud 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 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New 

 York, of the Natural History Society of Montreal ; of the Geological Society of France ; of the 

 South African Institution of the Cape of Good Hope ; of the Franklin Institute of the State of 

 Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts ; of the Geological Society of Pennsylvania, 

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OCTOBER 1834... APRIL 1835. 



VOL. XVIII. 



TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. 



EDINBURGH : 



ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH ; 

 LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN ^ LONGMAN, LONDON. 



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