CONTENTS OF N" 5b.—New Series. 



I. On the Thermo-Magnetism of Homogeneous Bodies; with illus- 

 trative Experiments. By Mr. Wm. Sturgeon, Lecturer on Experi- 

 mental Philosophy at the Hon, East India Company's Military Aca- 

 demy, Adiscombe. ( With a Plate.) ( To be continued) page 1 



II. On Simple Elimination. By J. E. Drinkwater, Esq 24 



III. On the Solar Eclipses and Transit of Mercury over the Sun's 

 Disc in 1832. By Prof. Enckk ; 28 



IV. Of the Conditions of Life. By the Rev. Patrick Keith, 

 F.L.S. {To be continued) S2 



V. Proceedings of Learned Societies : — Royal Society ; Geological 

 Society; Astronomical Society; Zoological Society; Friday -Evening 

 Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 41 -67 



VI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles :— Account of an 

 Aerial Voyage made in a Balloon on Saturday the 30th of April 

 1831, by T. Forster, M.B. F.L.S. &c.; New Patents; Occulta- 

 tions of Planets and Fixed Stars by the Moon in July 1831 ; 

 Results of a Meteorological Journal for the year 1830, kept at the 

 Observatory of the Royal Academy, Gosport, Hants, by William 

 Burney, LL.D. ; Extract from the Meteorological Journal kept at 

 Penzance, by Mr. Giddy ; Meteorological Observations for May 

 1831 ; Table, &c 67-80 



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