vi. Contents. 



REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Page 



T. P. Thompson's Geometry without Axioms. By W. F. Newman . 68 

 Beaufoy's Nautical and Hydraulic Experiments . . . .82 



Allan's Manual of IVFineralog-y ..... ib. 



Mathematical Researches. By G. B. Jerrard, A. B. . . . 121 



Outlines of Comparative Anatomy. By R. E. Grant, M. D., F. R. S., &c. 124 



El^mens de Zoologie, etc. Par M. H. Milne-Edwards . . 125 



A History of British Fishes. By W. Yarrell, F. L. S. . . . 126 



Essai sur la Statistique Morale de la France. Par A. INI. Guerry . ib. 

 Geographical Transactions : — Col. Jackson on the Classification and 



Nomenclature of Rivers ...... 129 



Professor Olmsted on Meteors, from the Companion to the American 



Almanac ........ 182 



M. Aimt on a New Method of Making Magnets, from Lcs Annales de 



Chimie . . . - • • • .186 



Simms on the Use of Mathematical Instruments . . . 186 



Professor Phillips's Guide to Geology . . . . . 2A& 



Mrs. Somerville on the Connexion of the Physical Sciences . . 247 



M. Agassiz, Rechcrches sur les Poissons Fossiles . . . 250 



Senior's Statement of the Provision for the Poor in America and Europe 253 

 Fitzherbert's Translation of Dr. Raciborski's Manual of Auscultation and 



Percussion ....... 255 



LOCAL OCCURRENCES, &c. 



Local Geology 83,255 



Saurian Remains in the Magnesian Conglomerate of Bristol . . 84 



Ichthyology. — M. Agassiz' Visit to Bristol . . . .85 



Tide Gauge Register 86, 189, 257, 369 



Books purchased by the Bristol Institution since Michaelmas, 1834 . 86 



Meteorological Tables. By E. Jones . . 87, 136, 193, 260, 374 



Quarterly Horticultural Report, from the Bristol Nursery . . 134, 187 



Donations to the Bristol Institution .... 137, 194 



