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Art. I. Some Observations upon the Valley of the Jordan and the 



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Dead Sea ; by John D. Sherwood, A. B., 1 



II. On the Crystals which occur spontaneously formed in the 



W.Bailey, — (with a plate,) 17 



III 



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BY, B. D., 



33 



IV. A new way of obtaining the Exponential and Logarith- 

 mic Theorems ; by Prof. Theodore Strong, 36 



V. Analysis of Coprolites from the New Red Sandstone for- 

 mation of New England ; by Samuel L. Dana, M. D. 

 with remarks by Prof. Hitchcock, - - - - 46 



VI. Extract of a Letter from Prof. E. Hitchcock, embracing 



miscellaneous Remarks upon Fossil Footmarks, the Lin- 

 colnite, &c, and a Letter from Professor Richard Owen, 

 on the great Birds 1 Nests of New Holland, 61 



VII. On Pseudomorphous Minerals, [Die Pseudomorphosen des 



Mineralreichs ;] by Dr. J. Reinhard Blum, 66 



VIII. Observations on Pseudomorphism ; by James D. Dana, 81 



IX. Scraps in Natural History, (Molluscs ;) by Dr. John T. 



Plummer, ........ 93 



X. (1.) Action of Solutions of the Neutral Phosphates of the 

 Alkalies upon the Carbonate of Lime, and some other 

 insoluble Carbonates; (2.) Source of Fluorine in Fossil 

 Bones; (3.) Composition of the Marl from Ashley Riv- 

 er, S. C. ; (4.) Existence of the Oxide of Cobalt in 

 South Carolina ; by J. Lawrence Smith, M. D., - 97 



XI. Notice of the Medals of Creation, or First Lessons in Ge- 

 ology, and in the Study of Organic Remains ; by Gideon 

 Algernon Mantell, LL. D., F. R. S., - - . 105 



137 



XII. New Experiments on the Solar Spectrum ; communicated 



by Prof. Olmsted, 



XIII. Cartography ; by Prof. C. Dewey, — (with two plates,) 140 



XIV. (1.) Remarks on the Alabama Meteoric Iron, with a 



Chemical Analysis of the drops of Green Liquid which 

 exude from it; by Charles T. Jackson, M. D. (2.) Let- 

 ter from Mr. A. A. Hayes on the same subject, with re- 

 marks on the origin of the Chlorine found in the Alaba- 

 ma Iron, and a description of new methods employed in 

 the Analysis of Meteoric Irons r .... 145 



