CONTENTS. V 



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203. — ^Alabaster in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, 206. — 

 Tubular concretions of Iron and Sand from Florida, 207. — 

 Spark Extinguisher, 209. — Destructive Thunder Shower, 

 210. — Elementary composition of vegetable tissue, 212. — 

 Mr. Lyell and Mr. Murchison, 213. — Carburetted Hydrogen 

 encased in spheres of Carbonate of Lime : Society of North- 

 ern Antiquaries : Barometrical Observations made to ascer- 

 tain the Level of the Dead Sea, 214. — Picture of a Parthian 

 Archer, 215. — Correction, 216. 



NUMBER II. 



Art. I. A Notice of Prof Augustine Pyrame De CandoUe ; by 



George B. Ebierson, .... 217 



II. Geological Reports of the State of New York for 1840, 227 



III. On the Manipulations of the Dipping Compass ; by Prof. 



John Locke, M. D., - - - - 235 



IV. The Involution of Polynomials ; by Wm. J. Lewis, 239 

 V. Notice of a Hurricane that passed over New England 



in September, 1815 ; by Noyes Darling, Esq., - 243 



VI. A New Method of determining the quantity of Nitrogen 

 in Organic Compounds ; by Drs. Varrentrapp and 

 Will. Translated from the original in the Annalen der 

 Chemie und Pharmacie, by J. Lawrence Smith, M. D., 253 

 VII. A Letter to Wm. Whewell, Professor of Moral Philoso- 

 phy in the University of Cambridge, England, in reply 

 to certain allegations and arguments advanced in a 

 pamphlet entitled a Demonstration that all Matter is 

 Heavy ; by Prof Robert Hare, M. D., - - 260 



VIII. Integration of a particular kind of Differential Equations 



of the second order ; by Prof. Theodore Strong, 273 



IX. Notice of the Zoological Writings of the late C. S. Rafi- 

 nesque ; by S. S. Haldeman, - - - 280 



X. Sir M. Faraday's answer to Dr. Hare's second Letter, 291 

 XI. Meteorological Observations, made at the Mines of San 



Fernando, situated in the Partido de la Manicaraqua, 

 Island of Cuba ; by John H. Blake, - - 292 



XII. Reply to Dr. Hare's Objections to the Whirlwind Theo- 

 ry of Storms ; by W. C. Redfield, - - - 299 



