CONTENTS. iii 



Art. XXV. Scientific Intelligence, • - 374 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Thunder-Storm at Inchkeith. 2. On Sounds on the Peak 

 of Teneriffe. 3. Magnetizing Power of the Solar Rays. 

 4. Radiation from Trees, - - - 374-376 



GEOLOGY. 



5. Eruptions of Water. 6. Eruptions of Gas. 7- Fossil Trees 

 in an erect position. 8. Crustacites and Cidarites in 

 Mountain Limestone. 9. Connexion of Diseases with 

 the Rock Formations of a Country. 10. Coprolite found 

 in the Tyrol. 11. Fossil Fox. 12. Fossil Floras. 13. 

 Boue on the relative Age of the Secondary Deposites in 

 the Alps and Carpathians. 14. Journal de Geologic, par 

 MM. A. Boue, Jobert, et Rozet. 15. Flint in Scotland. 

 16. Blackpots Clay, near BanflF, - - 376-382 



MINERALOGY. 



17. Prunnerite. 18. Pinguite, _ - , 382 



ZOOLOGY. 



19. Motions in Water occasioned by the process of Respiration 

 in Animals. 20. Migration of the Common Cockle (Car- 

 dium edule) and Donax anatinum. 21. Nerita glaucina. 

 22. Proof that the Stomach is still the best Distinctive 

 Character of Animals from Vegetables. 23. On the 

 Power of Horses ; by B. Bevan, Esq. 24. Fertility of 

 the Unio Pictorum. 2.5. Traditional Story regarding the 

 last of the Wolves in Morayshire. 26. The Lacerta agi- 

 lis ovo- viviparous in Scotland. 27. Phosphorescence of 

 the Sea in the Gulf of St Lawrence, - 382-388 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



28. The Norwegians. 29. Natives of New Guinea are Can- 

 nibals, 389-90 



GEOGRAPHY. 



30. M. Gerard's Journey in the Himala Range, - 391 



31. Enormous quantity of Iron manufactured, and of Coal con- 

 sumed in Wales. 32. Importance of the Discovery [of the 

 Curing of Herrings. 33. On the setting of Plaster ; by 

 M. Gay Lussac, , - - - 394, 395 



