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CONTENTS. v 
great Telescope of the Earl of Rosse, 208.—Third Comet of 
1843 : Remarkable Fulgurite, 210.—Upon the deposit of Gold 
recently discovered in the Ural, 211.—Periclase, a new min- 
eral, 212.—Coast Survey : Canal around the Sault St. Marie 
to connect Lake Superior with Lake Huron, 213.—Destruc- 
tion of the Public Conservatory at Boston: The De Candolle 
prize for Botanical Monographs, 214.—Effect of Electricity : 
Proposed nomenclature of numbers between ten and twenty : 
Heat from solid carbonic acid, 215.—Death of Dr. Richard 
Harlan: Death of Col. Trumbull: Death of the Rev. James 
H. Linsley, 216. 
NUMBER II. 
Page. 
Arr. I. Description of the Tithonometer, an instrument for meas- 
uring the Chemical Force of the es _— 
by Prof. Joun W. Drarer, M. D., 217 
II. Beaumontite and Lincolnite identical with saoctanlic : 
RANCIS ALGER, 
III. Scraps in Natural Hisory, (Quadrapes 3} ng Dr. lone 
T. PLrumMeEr, 236 
IV. Analysis of Wines pitt Palestine, eiyria oe Asia Mi- 
nor, and of Specimens of American Cider ; 2 Prof. 
Epwarp Hircucock, LL. D., - 
V. Statement of Elevations in Wisconsin ; by L. e% Emin 258 
VI. List of Birds found in the vicinity of Carlisle, Cumber- 
land County, Penn.; by Wm. M. and Srencer F. Barr, 261 
VII. Abstract of a Meteorological Journal for the year 1843, 
kept at Marietta, Ohio; by S. P. Hiwpretu, M.D., - 277 
VIII. A Week among the Glaciers; by Dr. H. Atten Grant, 281 
IX. Notice of Remains of Megatherium, Mastodon, and Silu- 
rian Fossils; by Rurvs Haymonn, M. - 
X. Notice of a Memoir by C. G. Ehrenberg, “ ‘On the wssiat 
and Influence of i Life in North and South 
America,” = - 297 
“XI. On the Ridges, Elevated Saks, Inland Clift al Boul- 
der Formations of the Canadian Lakes and Valley of St. 
Lawrence; by Cuartes Lystt, Esq., F.R.S., &c., - 314 
_ XII. On the Tertiary Strata of the Island of Martha’s Vineyard 
in Massachusetts; by Cuas. Lyext, Esq., V. P.G.S., &c., 318 
