C K T K N T S 

 OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH VOLUME. 



D N the Physiology of Botany. .. .. •• 3 



Reflections on the Noachian Deluge, and on the Alteinpts 

 lately made at Oxford^ for connecting the same with present 

 Geological Appearances. ,. .. .. .. H) 



Remarks on the Lunar Theory. .. .. .. 14, 'iOS 



Catalogue of Ancient Eclipses, with the Dates of their cor- 

 responding Eclipses at out and two Periods Distance. With 

 Remarks. .. .. .. .. •■ 17, '-^78 



Experiments on the Alloys of Steel, made with a Viav to its 

 Improvement , . . . . ,. . . . . 2G 



Tables of the Sun's Altitude and Zenith Distance, for every 

 Day in the Year, when it passes the Meridian, in Latitude 

 5l°29'S" ^j 



Biographical Memoir of the late Rt. Hon. S/r Joseph Banks, 

 Bart. G.C.B. President of the Royal Society. .. ^U 



On the true Measure of a Lunar Cycle, as compared with the 

 Lunar Tables in the Nautical Almanack. .. .. SI 



Account of the Loss of the French Ship of Discovery , Urania. 



Account of the new Discovery of a Southern or Antarctic Con- 

 tinent. . . .. .. .. .. •• i^3 



Description of a Volcanic Eruption in the Island of Sumbawa. 



Observations on the Phcenomeyia of the Universe. . . 100 

 Some Account of the Caves near Bans, called thePdnch Pandoo. 



^ loy 



On apportioning the Supply cf Oil, Naphtha, or Gas, necessary 

 for Street-Lampi, according to the varying Lingths of the 



Nights of the Year. .' H^ 



Vol.iti. No. 272. Der. 1820. • S<^"'-c 



