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ted by Col. J. C. Fremont, in California, by Jonn Torrey, F.L.S., 424, -~On Darling- 
tonia California, a New Seger cae oe ca California, by Joun Tor a Fas0-2 
rrapage saenea on the Bat of Linneus, by Joan Torrey, F.LS.: Pla nite 
Living Animals, ay y ‘JosEPH Lerpy, M.D.: Exotic Pe: from the Schweinitzian Her- 
barium, principally from Surinam, revised iby t the | . J. Berxexey, M.A., F.LS., 
and Rev. M. A. Curtis, ak 426.— of y.—Adrien de Jussieu, 426.— 
M. Achille Richard: Dr. Pres! : Dr. Wale ‘an 
Flea — Bip of Works on sapeaage? F 427.—Lectures on Surgical Pathology, a at 
e 
f England, by James Paget, F.R.S., &c. 
‘onomy.—New Comet IV of 1853: Proserpine : Second Comet of 1853, 430.—Third 
Astron 
Comet of 1853: Shooting Stars of August 9-10th 1853, 431. 
iscellaneous Intelligence. —Note to Prof. Barnard’s paper on oe ee of Heat in the 
Miscel 
Hot-air Engi the Author, 431.—The Conical Condenser, a serge Appendage, 
by Lieut. ih B. Hunt , 432. zy taiiecs s of | . accep hical Department of the Library of 
Congress, by Lieut. E. B, Hunt, 436 the Compuaiie and Figuring of the Spec- 
. e : 
e me 
sBy, 438.—On the 
employment of the piers Sine Dieese of Calcium as a means of preventing and destroying 
the Oidium Tuckeri, or G Betas np by Dr. Ast TLE y P. Price, ¥Riet the Interior 
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by M. H. Boye; On the Popular Theory of we Arctic Basin. Is it true ? * 
Dr. Scorgssy, 446.—On the Consolidation of Cora I"Rormations : Daguerreotypes for 
the Stereoscope: British Association: Cli Sep Arago: H E. Stric tland, 447,— 
Annual Report of the Superintendant of the Coast Survey : Twentieth Annual Report 
of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 1852 : The Book of N a 
Rich ScHoEeDLeER, Ph.D.: The Ethnographical Library, conducted by Epwin pre 
RIs, Esq., 450 —Contributions to est Aa Rota Geography of South Eastern Asia an 
ee by G. W. Earx: Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Illinois, ee 
G. NoRwoop: a Honilboak of the Dageteiderz ye; by S. D. Humpurey, 451. 
List of Works, 451. 
Index, 452. 
ERRATA. 
5.1. from top, for Trommet, read Tom 
P. 280 
is pod i 1. sf bottom, for ancien yo aarescogli, read Melampyrum, Pedicularis, 
P. 289, 5 1. toa botkiee, for passed, read eae é 
