V1U CONTENTS. 



Astronomy.— Le Verrier's Further Vindication of his predicted theory of Neptune, 

 442. — Indication of a Method of testing Olbers's Theory respecting the common 

 origin of ihe small Planets, by S. Alexander, 447.— New Comet, 449. 



Miscellaneous Intelligence.— On Meteoric Iron in South Carolina, by Charles 

 Upham Shepard, 449.— Staite's Electric Light, 450.— Anniversary of the Ge- 

 ological Society for 1849, held in London, 451 — Obituary.— Edward Forster, 

 Esq. : M. Hommaire de Hell, 451.— Dr. George Fownes : Dr. Prichard, 452. 



Bibliography. — Botanical Collections in New Mexico, and in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains: Hooker's London Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, 452. 

 Posthumous Papers, bequeathed to the Hon. East India Company by the late 

 Wm. Griffith, r F.L S., &c. : Bibiiographia Zoologize et Geologise, &c, by 

 Prof. L. Agassiz, 454. — Observations at the Magnetic and Meteorological Ob- 

 servatory, at the Girard College, Philadelphia, made under the direction of 

 A. D. Bache, LL.D.: An Introduction to Practical Chemistry and Analysis, 

 by John E. Bowman, 455.— Gmelin's Chemistry : Transactions of the Amer- 

 ican Ethnological Society, 456.— Verhandlungen der Russisch-Kaiserlichen 

 Mineralogischen Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg, 457. 



List of Works, 457. 

 Index, 459. 



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