CONTENTS. 
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Art. 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, 
II. 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, 
III. On os erie of mene of ase o James D. 
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IV. Maisetahd gent Steichen; 
VY. Description of an Alembic for ‘distilling Amalgam of 
Gold, contrived by M. F. Maury, U 
VI. Crystallographic Examination of Eremite ; by Sie D. 
Dana, - - - - - - 
VII. Address delivered at the ant yicians Meeting? of the 
Geological Society of London, on the 17th of ~— 
1837; by Cuartes Lyet, Jun 
VIIT. ee eras in Electro-Magnetism ; by Dr. ‘Coens G. 
Pace, 
IX. femarks on the avis of New York; by Prof. C. Dawe; 
X. Queries proposed by the Geologists of the new —s 
of the State of New York, 
XI. Notice of the Meteors of the 9th and 10th of Aided 
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1837, and also of Nov. 12th and 13th, 1832; = Gero. 
133 
C. ScHAEFFER, 
XII. Questions relative to Mineral oe sintehiibed to Pras 
tical Miners; by Rosert Were Fox, a 
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XIII. Descriptions of two species of Trilobites, belonging 1 to 
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the genus ParapoxipEs; by Mr. James 
XIV. On the Aurora Borealis of July 1,1837, - - - 
XV. On Spontaneous Combustion; by James Mease, M. D. 
XVI. Notice of “A Report on the Geological Survey of the 
State of Connecticut; by Professor Cuartes Urnam 
Surparp, M. D., &c. &c.”—with extracts and re- 
marks, by the Epiror, - ws 
XVII. On the Shooting Stars of eerast Oth cal 10th, 1837; 
and on the Probability of the Annual Occurrence of a 
Meteoric Shower in August; by Epwarp C, Herrck, 
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