CONTENTS 



OF THE 



EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



No. VI. 



Page 

 AllT. I. On the Limits of the Retina in the Eye of the Sepia Loligo, one of 

 the Cephalopodous Mollusca. By Robert Knox, M. D. F. R. S. E., 

 Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology, and Conservator of the Museum of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons. Communicated by the Author, 193 



1 1. An Account of the Frontier between the Southern part of Bengal and the 

 Kingdom of Ava. By Francis Hamilton, M. D. F. R. S. and F. A. S. 

 Lond. and Edin. Communicated by the Author, . . 201 



III. On the Quartz District in the neighbourhood of Loch Ness. By George 

 Anderson, Esq. F. R. S. E, &c. Inverness, . . . 212 



IV. On the Genus Calymperes of Swartz>nd Syrrhopodon of Schwaegrichen, 

 of the Order Musci. By W. J. Hooker, LL. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. Regius 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow, and R. K. Greville, 

 LL. D. F. R. S. E. &c. &c Communicated by the Authors, 218 



V. Some Account of the Climate, &c. of the North of France, collected part- 

 ly from Observation, partly from a free Communication with the Inhabit- 

 ants of various ranks. Written during a Residence in that Country ■ 

 for the use of a Friend in Britain. By Henry Home Blackadder, 

 Esq. Surgeon, - 227 



VI. Account of the Specific Gravity of several Minerals. By William 



Haidinger, Esq. F. R. S. E. Communicated by the Author (Con- 



tinuedfrom Vol. II. p. 74.) - . . - 241 



VII. Botanical Letters from J. J. Rousseau to M. Gouan, Professor of Bo- 

 tany at Montpellier. Communicated by Dr Hooker, . 246 



VIII. On the Construction of Meteorological Instruments, so as to register their 

 Indications during the absence of the Observer at any given Instant, or 



at successive intervals of Time, - . . - 251 



IX. Observations on the Gulf-Stream, in crossing it from Halifax to Beimuda, 

 and from Bermuda to Halifax, in his Majesty's Ship Jaseur, in 1821. 

 Communicated by J. D. Boswall, Esq. R. N. F. R. S. E. 256 



X. On Lithion-Mica. By Edward Turner, M. D. F. R. S. E. Lecturer 

 on Chemistry, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. 

 Communicated by the Author, - ogj 



