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X. On the Changes of the Vegetable Kingdom in the 

 different Geological Epochs. By M. Adolphe 

 Brongniart, . ..... 97 



XI. Observations on the Relative Position of the Forma- 

 tions of the Western Swiss Alps, and of the Alps 

 of Savoy. By Professor Favre, . . 101 



XII. A Description of the Glaciers of the Pindur and 

 Kuphinee Rivers in the Kumaon-Himalaya. By 

 Lieut. R. Strachey, Bengal Engineers, . 108 



XIII. Note on the Temperature of the Spider ; and on the 



Urinary Excretion of the Scorpion and Centipede. 

 By John Davy, M.D., F.R.S., Lond. and Edin., 

 Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, . .123 



XIV. Description of a new Pyrometer. By Mr Alex. 



Miller, Liverpool. With a Plate. Communi- 

 cated by the Author, ..... 126 



XV. Meeting of Association of American Geologists and 



Naturalists, held at Boston, September 27, 1847, 131 



XVI. On the Zeuglodon — Koch's Hydrarchos, . . 152 



XVII. On the Malayan and Polynesian Languages and Races. 

 By John Crawfurd, Esq., F.R.S.L., Conductor 

 of the Embassy to Siam. Communicated by the 

 Ethnological Society for the Edinburgh New Phi- 

 losophical Journal, . . . . .155 



XVIII. Notice of some Plants which have flowered recently in 

 the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. By J. H. Bal- 

 four, M.D., Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Edinburgh. Communicated by the Author, 200 



