CONTENTS. 



vcred in Europe. By Dr. J. Nceggeuath, and Dr. G. Bis- 

 CHOF, of Bonn ™ ' • " *^^ 



On the Discovert/ of an almost perfect Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus, 



BjjtheRev.'W.J).CoiiYB^AKB,F.R.S.M.G.S. . . 412 



Menstruum for Biting-in on Steel Plates. By Mr. Edmund 



TuuRELL, of Clarendon-street, Somerstoiim .... 4.21 



On the Invention, Progress, atid Advantages of the Art of En- 

 graving in Mezzotinto upon Steel. By Mr. Charles Tur- 

 ner, of Warner-street, Fitzroy-square . . . . • 426 



Observations on the dichotoinous Distribution of Animals : to- 



<rether 'with a Binary Arrangement of the Natural Order 



Saxifrageae. By A. H. Haworth, Esq. F.L.S. 8fc. . 428 



Description of an improved Cross for Land-Surveyors. By Mr. 



Isaac Newton *^^ 



On Mr. J. Herapath's Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem. 

 % M;-. L. T. Ward *32 



A Description of a new Species o/'Scolopax lately discovered in 

 the British Islands : with Observatio7is on the Anas glocitans 

 of Pallas, cmd a Description of the Female of that Species, 

 By N. A. Vigors, Esq. A.M. F.L.S 433 



An experimental Inquiry ifito the Nature of the radiant heating 

 Effects from terrestrial Sources. By Baden Powell, M.A. 

 F.R.S., of Oriel College, Oxford 437 



On the Osteology of Reptiles, and on the Geological Position 

 of their Fossil Remains. By M. Le Baron G. Cuvier 447 



Notices respecting New Books 48, 131, 210, 291, 385, 457 



Proceedings of Learned Societies 52, 136, 214, 295, 390, 458 



Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles 63, 140, 225, 304, 393, 



466 



List of Patents 75, 152, 282, 318, 398, 471 



Meteorological Tables .... 80, 160, 240, 320, 400, 473 



PLATES. 



I. & II. Captain Guaydon's Celestial Compass. 



III. The Rev. W. D. Conybeare's almost perfect Skeleton of the 

 Plesiosaurus. 



ERRATA: 



Page 159, line 2, for 1681, (under Nimbus,) read 1581. 



Page 298, lines IG and 19, /or Rausselaer, read Rensselaer. 



Vol. 64. page 211, line b,for True altitude, &c., >rrtrfTrue co-altitude, &c. 



