iv CONTENTS. 
MISCELLANIES. 
Page 
1. Report on the sees Stars of the 9th and 10th of Bee 
1838, - - 167 
2. Observations ris at Yale College on the Solar = of 
Sept. 18, 1838, - - 
3. Supposed New Mineral « at Bolion, ‘Mion 178 
4, 5. New Locality of eer = came Chabiisie > a ‘ities 
minerals at Stonington, Ct. 
6, 7. Crichtonite in R. 1.—Notice of the stew Flora of North 
America now publishing by John Torrey and Asa Gray, 180 
8. Redfield’s Law of Storms mae of Lieut. Col. Reid's 
179 
work on hurricanes, - 182 
9. Notice of Lea’s Observations on ii genus ie Unio, ke. - 184 
10. Notice of Holbrook’s North American Herpetology, Vols. 
1&2, ier - : - + . - - 186 
11, 12. Announcement of Second Part to Shepard’s Deseriptive 
Mineralogy—Blowpipe mouth for oxygenand hydrogen, 187 
13. Salisbury’s Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Avon, N. ¥Y. 188 
14. Notice of Feuchtwanger’s Treatise on Gems, - 
15. Extreme heat at Cumberland, Md. in July, 1838, 
16. Evidences of diluvial curr —n 
17. Notice of the American Almanac for 1839, - - - 49% 
18, 19, 20. Green Feldspar and Galena—Fossil fishes in the red 
sandstone of New Jersey—U. S. South Sea sprite 
_ and Exploring Expedition, - 192 
$ A als of Natural Bey: or a of Zoology, Botany, 
and Geology, - 194 
22. Analysis of Gmelinite or Hydrolite, - ay 
23. Prof. Owen on the Fossil Animals collected by Mr. Charles 
Darwi 
2A, 25. ieee - the Wollaston Medal—On the Rapidity. 
of Motion in Railway Cars which is stent with safety, 197 
oe On the Gases contained in the Blood, and on Respiration, 198 
ae om of the British Association for the Advance- 
195 
