IV CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANIES.-^^ -^MESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



Page. 



1. Mr. Faraday on the most improved form of the Galvanic De- 



flagrator, especially as constructed by Dr. Hare, - - 170 



2. Fossil footsteps in sandstone and graywacke, - - - 174 



3. Observations on the Aurora Borealis of Jan. 25, 1837, - 176 



4. Foreign accounts of the Meteoric Shower of Nov. 1836, - 181 



5. United States' gold mine, near Fredericksburgh, Va., - 183 



6. 7. Culpeper gold mine, Virginia — Geological Reports, - 185 

 8, 9. Fire bricks — Supposed volcano at sea, - - - 195 



10. Visit to Iceland, - - - 196 



11, 12. Storms — Galvanism, - - ' 197 



13. Animal electricity, -------- 198 



14. Fall of fishes from the atmosphere in India, - - - 199 



15. Nature of different cements, 200 



16. Telegraphs, - - - - - - - ' - - 201 



17. 18. Scientific Congress at Metz — New York Statistical So- 



ciety, - 202 



19, 20. Officers of the New York Lyceum of Natural History — 

 Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Science and Lite- 

 rature, 204 



21. Proposed new work on American skulls, - - - - 207 



22, 23. Maury's treatise on Navigation — Gummere's Astronomy, 208 



24. Wiseman's Lectures on the connection between Science and 

 Revealed Religion, - - 209 



25, 26, 27. Dr. Buckland's new work — Lyell's Geology, 5th edi- 



tion— Lindley's Introduction to Botany, - - - • - 210 

 28, 29. Lindley's Natural System of Botany — Hints on the culti- 

 vation of the Mulberry, &c. ------ 211 



30, 31, 32. Johnston's Chemical Tables — Magazine of Zoology 



and Botany — Thomson's Records of Science, - - 212 



33. The Annals of Electricity, Magnetism and Chemistry, &c. 213 



Obituary: Dr. Edward Turner, 213 



M. Persoon — Mr. Richard Cunningham — Mr. Edward 

 Turner Bennet, - - - - - - - 215 



Dr. William Henry, - 216 



East Indian Geology, 216 



Appendix. 



Notice of the Electro-Magnetic Machine of Mr. Thomas 

 Davenport, of Brandon, near Rutland, Vermont. 



