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 Abt. I. Journal of a Voyage to Spitzbergen and the East Coast 

 of Greenland, in his Majesty's Ship Griper. By 

 Douglas Charles Clavering, Esq. F.R.S., Com- 

 mander. Communicated by James Sjiith, Esq. of 

 Jordanhill, F. R. S. E. With a Chart of the Disco- 

 veries of Captains Claveking and Scoresby, 1 

 I. Voyage from the Thames to Hammerfest in Nor- 



'>'''\v> 3 



IT. From Hammerfest to Spitzbergen, . . 9 



III. Unsuccessful attempt to reach from Spitzbergen a 



high Northern Latitude, ... 12 



IV. From Spitzbergen to the East Coast of Old Green- 



land — Exploration from Cape Parry to Roseneath 

 Inlet — Meeting with the Natives — Account of them 

 — Finally quit the Coast, and return to England, 14 



II. Analysis of the Vegetable Milk of the Hya-hya Tree 

 of Demerara. By Robert Christison, M.D. Pro- 

 fessor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of 

 Edinburgh. Communicated by the Author, 31 



III. On the Physiognomy of the Vegetable Kingdom in the 



Brazils. By Dr C. F. Phil, von Martius, Knight 



of the Bavarian Order of Alerit, &c. - 35 



IV. Lectures on the History of the Natural Sciences. By 



Baron Cuvier, - - - - 41 



Lecture IV. Greece,— concluded from p. 349. of former 



Volume, - - . . . ib. 



Lecture V. Schools of Philosophy before Socrates, 42 



Lecture VI. Socrates and his Epoch— State of the 



Sciences up to the time of Aristotle, - 49 



Lecture VIII, Aristotle's History of Animals, - «« 



Lecture IX. Theophrastus, . . . Jg 



