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Art. I. Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, - 
If, Memoir upon the Temperature of re solid fins of the 
Globe, of the Atmosphere, and of those regions of space 
traversed by the Earth; by M. Poisson. Translated 
from the French, by R. W. Haskins, 
Ill. Miscellaneous Remarks on certain pasticlade of the Geol- 
ogy of Maine; by Dr. Cuaries T. Jackson, - - 
1V. Popular Notices of Mount Washington and the vicinity ; 
by G. W. 2 spar additional asa — the 
EpitTor, 
V. On the Tides ; by Dives NVowereiee: - 
VI. Equalization of Temperature and supply of air in rooms 
warmed by furnaces beneath ; by Jas. perio A. M., 
M. 
Vil. Desteintion aoe an Air Pia of a very y teihipte construc- 
tion, which acts both as an exhauster and condenser ; by 
Prof. Joun Jounsron, 
VIII. Notes respecting certain Indian Mounds and ‘Rentnvarez 
in the form of Animal Effigies, chiefly in the Wisconsin 
Territory, U. S.; by Ricnarp C. Taytor, Esq. 
IX. Observations made during an excursion to the White 
sae in ~~ 1837 ; Lf Prof. Ottver P. Hus- 
X. Prof Loti on Magneto-Electricity, ind Blectro-Mag. 
netical Machines, 
XI. Abstract of a Meteotsiojacl Joatiak for the year 1837, 
kept at Marietta, Ohio; by S. P. Hitpretn, - = - 
XII. Geology of Upper Illinois; by Prof. Coartes Urnam 
SHEPARD, - 
XIit. Coletronbatité; anew p Mtisieral Species: by Prof. is 
Upnam SHEPARD, % 
XIV. New Magnetic Electrical Machine of peat power, with 
two parallel horse-shoe magnets, and two straight ro- 
tating armatures, affording each, in an entire revolution, 
a constant current in the same direction ; — Cuas. G. 
Pacer, M.D. - - : 
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