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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXIIl. 
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Arr. I. Examination of the Theory of a Resisting Medium, in 
which it is assumed that the Planets and Comets of our 
System are moved; by R. W. Haskins, 
Il. Sketch of the Early History of Count Rumford, in 
which some of the mistakes of Cuvier, and others of 
his biographers, are corrected ; by Joun Jounston, 
Hil. On a aa of Figures of iad is by James D. 
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V. Description of an Alembic for “distilling Amalgam of 
Gold, contrived by M. F. Maury, U.S. N - 
Vi. Crystallographic Examination of Eremite ; by JAMES D. 
Dana, - 
VII. Address fikanie! at a denies Mécting of co 
Genlagienl Society of London, on the 17th of HRP UAE 
1837; by Cuarues Lyent, Jun. - 
Vil. Bxperiments in Pree aes ay Dr. ‘Det ien G. 
"ox. Womans on the aha TP Ncw York; 3 Prof. C. fasce 
X. Queries proposed by the Geologists of the new atts 
of the State of New York, - - 
XI. Notice of the Meteors of the 9th a 10th of ives 
1837, and also of Nov. 12th and 13th, 1832; ny Gro. 
C. ScHAEFFER, - - 
XII. Questions relative to Mineral pe cubnsitia to re 
tical Miners; by Ropert Were Fox, - - - 135 
XIII. Descriptions of two species of Trilobites, belonging to 
the genus Parapoxipes; by Mr. James Haun, - 139 
XIV. On the Aurora Borealis of July 1, 1837, — - - 143 
XV. On Spontaneous Combustion; by James aac. M.D. 147 
XVI. Notice of “A Report on the Geological Survey of the 
State of Connecticut; by Pevfessor Cuar.ies UpHam 
Sierarp, M.D., &c. &c.”—with extracts and re- 
marks, by the Epiror,_ - 151 
XVII. On the Shooting Stars of wwii 9th saa Loth, 1837; 
and on the Probability of the Annual Occurrence of a 
Meteoric Shower in August; by Epwarn C. Herrick, 176 
