CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV 



NUMBER X . 



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II. General Geological Distribution and probable Food and Cli- 



mate of the Mammoth ; by Prof. R. Owen, 



III. Note upon Carex loliacea, Linn., and C. gracilis, Ehrh. ; by 

 A. Gray, _..-.---- 



IV. Description of Three New Carices, and a New Species of 



V. 



Rhynchospora ; by John Carey, 



Wh 

 Falls of Niagara ; by R. Bakewell, 



VI. On certain Improvements in the Construction and Supply of 

 the Hydro-oxygen Blowpipe, by which Rhodium, Iridium, or 

 the Osmiuret of Iridium, also Platinum in the large way, have 

 been fused ; by Prof. Robert Hare, M.D., 



VII. Description of Two New Species of Fossil Footmarks found 

 in Massachusetts and Connecticut, or, of the Animals that 

 made them ; by Rev. Edward Hitchcock, - 



VIII. Glycocoll (Gelatine Sugar) and some of its Products of De- 

 composition; by Prof. E. N. Horsford, — (continued,) 



IX. On the Potato Disease, ------- 



X. Report on Meteorites ; by Prof. Charles Upham Shepard, - 



XI. A General Review of the Geological Effects of the Earth's 



XII. Review of the Organic Chemistry of M. Charles Gerhardt ; 



by T. S. Hunt, 



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Cooling from a state of Igneous Fusion ; by James D. Dana, 88 



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SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



Chemistry and Physics.— Congelation of Mercury in three seconds, by virtue of 

 the spheroidal state, in an incandescent crucible : On a new Test for Prussic 

 Acid, and on a'simple Method of preparing the Sulphocyanid of Ammonium, by 

 Prof. Liebig, 101.— Separation of Alumina from Oxyd of Iron: Detection of 

 minute traces of Alcohol : On the Acid Reaction of the Gastric Juice, by Prof. 

 C. G. Lehmann, 102.— Equivalent number of Titanium, 103.— On the com- 

 jounds of Iron with Carbon, by M. Karsten, 104.— Note on the Action of a so- 

 ution of Caustic Soda upon a Stoneware Jar, by Trenham Reeks, 105.— On 

 the Detection of Cotton in Linen, by G. C. Kindt, 106.— Nitrification and 

 Fertilization of Soils, by F. Kuhlmawn : Anhydrous Alcohol, by M. Casoria, 

 107.— On the Compounds of Phosphoric Acid with Aniline, by Ed. C. Nichol- 

 son: On the relations of Glycocoll and Alcargene, by Thomas S. Hunt, 108. 



Mineralogy and Geology.— Hauerite, a New Mineral Species, by VV. Haidi^ger, 

 108.— Coal and Iron in India, 109.— On Slaty Cleavage, by Daniel Sharpe, 110. 

 —Geological Society of London, 113.— Remarks on a Boulder Mass of Native 

 Copper from the southern shore of Lake Superior, by Forrest Shepherd, 115. 

 —On Fossil Trees found at Bristol, Conn., in the New Red Sandstone, 116. — 

 Observation on the Basaltic Formation on the northern shore of Lake Su- 

 perior, by T. R. Dutton, 118. 



