IV CONTENTS. 



XIV. Bibliographical Notices : — De Candolle's Prodromus sys- 

 tematis naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, sive Enumeratio con- 

 tracta Ordinum, Generum, speci^rumque Plantarum hue 

 usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas diges- 

 ta, 198. — Walpers's Repertorium Botanices Systematicse : 

 Kunth's Enumeratio Plantarum omnium hucusque cogni- 

 tarum, secundum Familias Naturales disposita, 200. — 

 Endlicher's Mantissa Botanica, sistens Generum Planta- 

 rum Supplementum Tertium, 201. — The Botany of the 

 Voyage of H. M. ship Sulphur, during the years^l 836-42, 

 202. — Fielding's Sertum Plantarum, or Drawings and 

 Descriptions of Rare or Undescribed Plants, from the 

 author's Herbarium : Jussieu's Cours elementaire de 

 Botanique, 204. — Jahresbericht iiber die Arbeiten fiir 

 Physiologische Botanik im Jahre, 1841 : Anatomia Plan- 

 tarum Iconibus lUustrata : Crania iEgyptiaca, or Observa- 

 tions on Egyptian Ethnography, derived from Anatomy, 

 History, and the Monuments, 205. — Ehrenberg's Re- 

 searches on the Distribution of Microscopic Life, 208. — 

 Rigg's Experimental Researches, Chemical and Agricul- 

 tural, 211. 



Miscellanies. — Notes on the Cretaceous Strata of New Jersey 

 and parts of the United States bordering the Atlantic, 213. — 

 On the probable age and origin of a bed of Plumbago and 

 Anthracite, occurring in mica schist near Worcester, Mass., 

 214. — Hydrous Borate of Lime : Anatase, 215. — Pennine : 

 Talc: Dioptase : Beaumontite, 216. — Sismondine, a new min- 

 eral : Description by Captains Cook and Flinders of Birds' 

 Nests of enormous size on the coast of New Holland, 217. — 

 Festival in honor of Berzelius, 218. 



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Art. L Researches in Elucidation of the Distribution of Heat 



over the Globe, and especially of the Climatic Features 



peculiar to the Region of the United States ; by Samuel 



FoRRY, M. D.— (concluded,) - - - - 221 



n. On the Condition of Equilibrium between Living and Dead 



Forces ; by Robert Henry Fauntleroy, - - 241 



