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ting Meteor, seen to fall at Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 16th, 1857, with notices of other supposed 
shooting Meteors; by Charles Upham Shepard. — Scientific Intelligence. 
Nr. 84. enthält: The Correlation: of Physical, Chemical and Vital Force, and the Conservation of Force 
in Vital Phenomena; by Prof. Joseph LeConte. — Report on the Exploration of two Passes, (the 
Kootanie and Boundary Passes) of the Rocky Mountains in 1858; by Capt. Blakiston. (With a map.) 
Appendix : Extracts from Sir R. L Murchison’s Anniv. Address Geogr. Soc. (Palliser Expedition.) — 
On Nitride of Zirconium; by Prof. J. W. Mallet. — On the Atomic Weight of Lithium; by Prof. J. W. 
Mallet. — Notes on certain Ancient and Present Changes along the Coast of South Carolina; by Oscar 
M. Lieber. — On the Sudden Disappearence of the Ice of our Northern Lakes in the Spring; by Gen. 
J.G. Totten. — On some Reactions of the salts of Lime and Magnesia, and on the Formation of Gyp- 
sums and Magnesian Rocks; by T. Sterry Hunt. — On Gallic and Gallhumic (Metagallic) acid; by Dr. 
F. Mahla. — The Great Auroral Exhibition of August 28th to Sept. 4th, 1859. (Observations mad at Le- 
wiston, Maine, by Prof. El. Loomis; at Toronto, by Prof. G. P. Kingston; at New Haven, by Prof. 
C.S. Lyman; at West Point, by Prof. AL C. Twining; Letters from Prof. Dan. Kirkwood, Bloo- 
mington; On the Meteorological and Magnetic Phenomena accompanying the Aurora Borealis, as observed 
at Springhill, Ala., by Prof. A. Cornette; Observations at Jefferson Co., Miss.; Deseription of two Auro- 
rae Boreales observed at Havana, Cuba, by M. Andras Poey; Observation at San Francisco, California, 
by Dr. J. B. Trask: Height of the base of the Auroral curtain, August 28th; Appeal to observers.) — 
Account of several Meteorie Stones which fell in Harrison Co., Indiana, March 28th, 1859; by Prof. J. 
Lawrence Smith, M. D. — Geographical Notices. Nr. IX. (The Inland Seas of Africa. Sources of the 
Nile. — History of the Discovery of America. Atlas of Kunstmann, Spruner and Thomas. — The Fate of 
Sir John Franklin.) — Correspondence of Prof. Jer. Nicklès. — Scient. Intell. 
Vol. XXIX. Nr. 85. enthält: On the Origination and Distribution of Species : Introductory Essay to the 
Flora of Tasmania; by Dr. Joseph D. Hooker; — Some General Views on Archaeology; by A. Mor- 
lot. — On a new genus of Patelliform shells from the Cretaceous rocks of Nebraska; by F. B. Meek 
and F. V. Hayden. (With a Plate.) — General account of the results of the discussion of the Declinome- 
ter observations made at Girard College, Philadelphia, between the years 1840 to 1845, with special refe- 
rence to the eleven year period; by A. D, Bache. (With a Diagram.) — A Visual Method of effecting a 
Precise Automatic Comparison of Time between distant stations; by Jonathan Homer Lane. (With a 
Plate.) — On Osmious Acid, and the position of Osmium in the list of Elements ; by Prof. J. W. Mallet. 
— The Comas and Tails of Comets; by Prof. W. H. C. Bartlett. — On Sodalite and Elaeolite from 
Salem, Massachusetts; by J. P. Kimball, P. D. — Description of Nine new species of Crinoidea from 
the Subearboniferous Rocks of Indiana and Kentucky ; by Sidney S. Lyon and S. A. Casseday. — 
Theoretical Determination of the Dimensions of Donati’s Comet; by Prof. W. A. Norton. — Geographi- 
cal Notices. Nr. X. (The Mountains of Western North America. — Baikie's Niger Expedition. — Khani- 
koff's Expedition in Central Asia.) — The Great Auroral Exhibition of August 28th to Sept. 4th 1859. 2d Ar- 
ticle. — On Numerical Relations existing between the Equivalent Numbers of Elementary Bodies; by M. 
Carey Lea. — Remarks on the Dissolution of Field Ice; by Chas. Whittlesey. — Scient. Intell. 
Nr. 86. enthält: Review of Darwin's Theory on the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. — 
Forces; by Theodore Lyman. — On-the causes of deviation in Elongated Projectiles; by Maj. J. G. 
Barnard. — Gulf Stream Explorations. Third Memoir. Distribution of Temperature in the Water of the 
Florida Channel and Straits; by A. D. Bache. With Diagrams. — On the Chemical Composition of Pecto- 
lite; by J. D. Whitney. — Notes on the Ancient Vegetation of North America; by Dr. J. S. Newberry. 
“In a letter to Prof. Dana. — Abstract of a Meteorological Journal, kept at Marietta, Ohio; by S. P. 
