CONTENTS. 



PART I.— SCIENCE. 



Page 



Address ........ i. 



Essay on Geology. By Rev. W. D. Conybeare . . . . 1, 89 



Essay on Zoology ....... 19, 101 



On the Formation and Growth of Coral Reefs and Islands, I)y S. 



Stutchbury ........ 45 



Professor Faraday's Recent Discoveries .... 56 



On the Interferences of Aerial Waves. By R. Addams . . .60 



Horticulture ....... 61, 134, 187 



Observations upon the Polders of Flanders . . . .64 



On the Relations between Mind and Muscle. By Dr. Symonds . 112, 168 

 On the Reflection and Refraction of Light. By T. Exley, A. M. 141, 197 



Giant's Cave ........ 148 



Tahiti in 1826 ........ 150 



Botanical Catalogue. By H. O. Stephens .... 158, 237 



Queries respecting the Culture of Ferns . . . . .166 



On Luminous Wood. By J. S. D. . . . . . 167 



On certain Objections to the Hypothesis which supposes the Central 



Mass of the Globe to be in a state of Igneous Fusion. By the Rev. 



W. D. Conybeare ....... 207 



On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Organs of the Senses . 210 



On the Structure and Functions of the Organs of Respiration . 217, 279 



On the Cultivation of Wheat within the Tropics. By W. Hamilton, M.B. 229 

 Observations on the Dyke on Clifton Down. By S. Stutchbury . . 235 



A Geological Description of the Parish of Portishead . . 261 



Short Notes upon the Diluvial and Alluvial Deposits of the Taffe Valley 272 

 On the Sense of Feeling ....... 287 



A Sketch of the Present State of our Knowledge of the Laws of Chemical 



Coml>ination, with some of their more important Applications • . 310 



Some Account of the Mcr-de-Glace ..... 320 



On the Practicability and Advantages of a Communication between the 



Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, across the Isthmus of Central America. 



By W. Hamilton, M.B. . . . 323 



Moral Statistics of France ...... 334 



