iv CONTENTS. 
MISCELLANIES.—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 
f Page. 
1. Mr. Faraday on the most improved form of the Galyanic De- 
flagrator, especially as constructed by Dr. Hare, = - - 170 
2. Fossil footsteps in sandstone and graywacke, - - 174 
3. Observations on the Aurora Borealis of Jan. 25, 1837, - 176 
ig Foreign accounts of the Meteoric Shower of Nov. 1836, - 181 
5. United States’ gold mine, near Fredericksburgh, Va., - 183 
& 7. Culpeper gold mine, Virginia—Geological oe - 185 
8, 9. Fire bricks—Supposed volcano at sea, - 195 
10. Visit to Ieeland, = - 9° - © «sree we 186 
11, 12. Storms—Galvanism, - - - - - - - 197 
13. Animal electricity, - stews | os TUS 
14. Fall of fishes from the stmoxphere in Kady ie 199 
15. Nature of different — nes ae -- 200 
16. Telegraphs, - aie ea. See 
Fi, 1s. aaa Congres at Mee tee York Statistical So- 
cie - = ; 
19, 20. olen of the Rew York Lyéton of Natural Hidery . 
“ee gan of the a sored of Science and Lite- 
rature, - = - - ee ee 
21. Pieptiied new work on Lena: skulls, Fe . - 207 
22, 23. Maury’s treatise on Navigation—Gummere’s Nliedtctese 208 
24. Wiseman’s Lectures on the connection between Science and 
Revealed Religion, 
209 
25, 26, 27. Dr. Buckland’s new + wets: Lip aiite Geology bth edi- 
210 
tion—Lindley’s Introduction to Botany, - 
28, 29. Lindley’s Natural System of ee triste on the eulti- 
vation of the Mulberry, &c. 
211 
30, 31, 32. Johnston’s Chemical Pibiice —Maserine of Zoology 
and Botany—Thomson’s Records of Science, - 
33. The Annals of Electricity, Magnetism and Chemistry, he 
Obituary: Dr. Edward Turner, 
M. Persoon—Mr. Richard | Conningham—Mr. Hdwitd 
Turner Bennet, - - - 
: Dr. William Henry, - “ “ . ‘ s 
* otha Geology, - - Fe ‘a Sati ‘i 
: Appendiz. 
Notice! oft, the Electro-Magnetic Machine of Mr: Thomas 
ar es Pesredss near eas besaue 
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