XU CONTENTS. 



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Dr. W. Marcet's Experimental Inquiry into the Action of Alcohol on the 

 Nervous System 1 70 



Mr. W. E. C. Nourse on the Organs of the Senses, and en the Mental Percep- 

 tive Faculties connected with them 171 



Dr. Ogilvie on the Genetic Cycle in Organic Nature 1/2 



Dr. Peter Redfern on the Method of Production of Sound by a Species of 

 No toned a 173 



i -on the Admixture of Nervous and Muscular Fibres in the 



Nerves of the Ilirudo medicinalis and other Leeches 174 



— — — — — — — on the Structure of the Otoliths of the Cod (Gadus 



Morrhua) 174 



Miscellaneous. 

 Mr. Andrew Murray on the Disguises of Nature 175 



GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. 



M. A. Ameuney (a Syrian) on the Arabic- speaking Population of the World ... 176 



Baron de Bode on the Country to the West of the Caspian Sea 177 



Mr. W. Bollaert on the Geography of Southern Peru 177 



Dr. W. Camps on the Laws of Consanguinity and Descent of the Iroquois ... 177 



Mr. J. Crawfurd on the Relation of the Domesticated Animals to Civilization 177 



Mr. Joseph Barnard Davis, Remarks on the Inhabitants of the Tarai, at 

 the foot of the Himalayas 177 



Admiral FitzRoy on Meteorology, with reference to Travelling, and the Mea- 

 surement of the Height of Mountains 178 



Colonel J. Forbes on the Ethnology and Hieroglyphics of the Caledonians.... 178 



Consul S. Freeman, Description of Ghadames 178 



Sir A. L. Hay, Notes on the Vitrified Forts on Noth and Dunnideer 179 



Dr. Hector, Description of Passes through the Rocky Mountains 180 



Mr. John Hogg on Gebel Hauran, its adjacent districts, and the Eastern Desert 

 of Syria; with Remarks on their Geography and Geology 180 



, Notice of the Karaite Jews 181 



On the Application of Colonel James's Geometrical Projection of two-thirds of 

 the Sphere to the Construction of Charts of the Stars, &c 183 



Colonel Henry James on the Roman Camp at Ardoch, and the Military Works 

 near it 183 



Extracts from a Letter of Dr. Kirk to Alex. Kirk, Esq., relating to the Living- 

 stone Expedition. (Communicated by Dr. Shaw) 185 



Hon. T. M'Combie on the Aboriginals of Australia 186 



Dr. M'Gowan on the Native Inhabitants of Formosa 186 



on Chinese Genealogical Tables 186 



Mr. Thomas Michell on the Russian Trade with Central Asia 186 



Mr. J. Lyons M'Leod on the Resources of Eastern Africa 188 



Mr. Laurence Oliphant, Notes on Japan 194 . 



Captain Sherard Osborne on the Yang-tse-kiang, and its future Commerce 196 



Major Phillips on some curious Discoveries concerning the Settlement of the 

 Seed of Abraham in Syria and Arabia 197 



Major J. Stokes, Notes on the Lower Danube 197 



