CONTENTS. ili 



Art. XVII. Table, shewing the Mean Temperatui-e at Aber- 

 deen for each Month of the last Eight Years, 

 — Mean Height of Barometer for 1830, — and 

 Rain fallen at Marischall College Observatory 

 during the last Two Years. By Mr George 

 Innes, Astronomical Calculator, Aberdeen, 153 



XVIII. On the Utility of fixing Lightning Conductors 

 in Ships. By W. S. Harris, Esq. Member of 

 the Plymouth Institution, - - 154 



XIX. On the Proximate Causes of certain Winds and 

 Storms. By Professor E. Mitchell, Univer- 

 sity of North Carolina, - - 167 



XX. Further Notices in regard to the Bones foimd 



in Wellington Country, New South Wales, IJQ 



XXI. The Geological Age of Reptiles. By Gideon 

 Mantell, Esq. F. R.S. L. &c. 



XXII, Description of several New or Rare Plants which 

 have lately flowered in the neighbourhood 

 of Edinburgh, and chiefly in the Royal Bota- 

 nic Garden. By Dr Graham, Professor of 

 Botany in the University of Edinburgh, 



XXIII. Celestial Phenomena from July 1. to October 1, 



1831, calculated for the Meridian of Edin- 

 burgh, Mean Time. By Mr George Innes, 

 Astronomical Calculator, Aberdeen, 



XXIV. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History 



Society, . . _ . 



XXV. List of Patents granted in Scotland from 14th 

 March to 13th June 1831, 



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199 



,*, Want of room prevents the notice of several Works, and also the 

 insertion of Literary and Scientific Intelligence. 



