Vili . CONTENTS. 
le ann's Botany of the ilies of the Herald: Notice of the death of Dr. Fischer, 
of St. Petersburgh, M. Moricand of Geneva, and Philip Barker Webb, Esq., 429.— 
Description of a New Species of Cry shots Sond California, by James D. Dana, 430. 
Astronomy.—New Planets : New Comet, 430. 
Miscellaneous Intelligence.—Correspondence of M. JERomE Nréxiis—Death of f Dr. Lal- 
Jemand and of Melloni: Weights and Measures: Researches on Colored Impressions 
produced by the Chemical action of Light, 431.—Protection against — 482: —Dis- 
<r Plants: Dimorphism, 433.—Coloring matter of Flowers, 434.— s Me- 
moirs, 435. Sanaa of pewdee 436.—Stereoscopy : Photography : Pho 
ss moxie n Judea: New Collodion, 437.—Impression by ats ‘or iia ypy: 
Electrie iy, 438.—Notice of the ‘‘ Fountain of Blood” in Honduras, care 
Nature doing her own engraving: Mount Ararat and places in the pi ian Basin : 
Zodiacal Light, 440.——Notes on California, by W. P. Buaxe: aie Bp Sketch 
c fat 
Iridium und ‘ins Verbindungen, iT—The Chemitey of Cann sae by JamEs 
F.R.S,, &c.: Souvenirs d’un Naturaliste, par A. DE Quatreracres: The Principal 
Forms of the Skeleton, and of the Teeth, by Professor R. Owsn, F.R.S., &c. : Princi- 
ples of Comparative Physiology, by Wm. B. CarrenTER, M.D., F.R.S., &c. 448.—Hu- 
man Physiology, by Wortnincron Hooker, M.D.: Science and Mechanism I)lus- 
trated by Examples in the New York Exhibition, 1853-54, edited by E. R. GoopricH, 
Esq., aided by Professors Hau and Sriuiman, &c.: History of the re of Massa- 
chussetts, by Davip Humpureys Storer: The Principles of Animal and Vegetable 
Physiology, by J. Stevenson Busunan, M.D.: System der pinnae Morphologie, 
von Dr. J. Vic 
the Universi ersity of the State of New York on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Nat-_ 
ural E Popular — reg tee Deen by oe Minntrtg, 451. 
List of Works, 451. 
Index, 452, 

ERRATA. 
P. 19, wns last line to bottom of p. 18. 
p. 65 is corrected on 
P. 415, — ~ from top, dele “all lene two of.” ; 
Vol. XVII, p. 287, line 10 from tq, for “6r.m.," read “10P.™.:"" same page, line 21 
from Scent, for “59° 27,” read “127° 9,” : 
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