VI CONTENTS, 



Page 

 is prefixed M. de Blainville's Report on the Subject to the 



Royal Academy of Sciences {continued) 278 



Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of Ochsenheimer's 

 Genera of the Lepidoptera of Europe ; &c. (continued) .... 287 



New Books: — Mr. John Taylor's Records of Mining 297 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 300 



Linnaean Society 306 



~- at the Friday Evening Meetings of the Royal In- 

 stitution of Great Britain 307 



. Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris. . . . 308 



Effects of Light on Solution of Tartar-Emetic and Antimonial 



Wine 309 



Nitrate of Silver as a Test for Vegetable and Animal Matter — 

 Solubility and Melting Point of Phosphorus — M. Rose on 

 the Action of Sulphuretted Hydrogen Gas on Solutions of 



Mercury 310 



Professor Bessell's PenduUim Experiments 312 



Scientific Books 312 



Dr. Burney's Results of a Meteorological Journal for the Year 

 1828, kept at the Observatory of the Royal Academy, Gos- 



port, Hants ' 313 



New Patents 318 



Meteorological Observations 318 



' made by Mr. Booth at the Gar- 

 den of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, near London, 

 by Mr. Giddy at Penzance, Dr. Burney atGosport, and Mr. 

 Veall at Boston 320 



NUMBER XXIX.— MAY. 



Rev. J. Kenrick on the ancient Inscriptions of Persepolis . . . 321 



Dr. Foville's Researches on the Anatomy of the Brain '. 331 



Dr. Bigsby's Sketch of the Topography and Geology of Lake 

 Ontario [continued) 339 



Mr. Forster's Extract from a Report made on the 29th of Sep- 

 tember 1827, on the Probability of finding Coal near Lei- 

 cester 34-7 



Mr. Nixon on the Measurement (by Trigonometry) of the 

 Heights of the principal Hills of Wensleydale, Yorkshire 

 [continued) 350 



Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of Ochsenheimer's 

 Genera of the Lepidoptera of Europe ; &c. [continued.) . . . . 363 



Dr. Green's Reply to Mr. J. de C. Sowerby's Remarks on " Ex- 

 periments on the Pressure of the Sea at considerable Depths." 371 



Mr. Maclear on a Luminous Arch seen at Biggleswade, on the 

 23rcl of March 373 



Mr. Lowry on the Rev. W. Ta3'lor's Experiments on the Com- 

 bustion of Coal-Gas, and on the best form for Gas-Burners 375 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 377 



• Linnaean Society — Geological Society . . . 384 



Proceed- 



