VI CONTENTS. 



Page. 



V. An Account of a Filaria in a Horse's Eye,' with remarks 

 on similar phenomena, and the mode of their origin ; 



by Charles A. Lee, M. D., 378 



VI. An Attempt to determine by Experimental Research the 

 true Theory of the Pneumatic Paradox ; by Jos. Hale 



Abbot, 296 



VH. On Terrestrial Magnetism ; by .John Locke, M. D., 319 

 VIII. Observations on the Shooting Stars of August 9th and 



10th, 1840 ; communicated by Edward C. Herrick, 328 

 IX. Earthquake in Connecticut, &.C., . . . . 335 



X. A Synopsis of the Birds of North America ; by John 



James Audubon, F. R. SS. Lond. and Ed., . . 343 



XI. On a supposed new Mineral Species ; by Prof. Charles 



Upham Shepard, ....... 357 



miscellanies. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Philad., 361 



2. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, . 373 



3. 4. Most Brilliant Meteor — Explosion of a Meteor near Anti- 



gua, West Indies, . . . . . . . . 381 



5. Splendid Meteoric Fire-Bail, 382 



6, 7. Alleged fall of a Meteor in Canada — Auroral Belt of May 



29, 1840, 383 



8. Tornado at Northford, Conn., June 19, 1794, . . . 384 



9. Method of permanently Fixing, Engraving, and Printing from 



Daguerreotype Pictures, ...... 385 



10, Cloth of Glass, . 386 



11, 12. Death of Olbers— New Fossil Shells from N. Carolina, 387 

 13, 14. Intelligence — Sorex parvus and Sorex brevicaudis, . 388 



15. The Natural History and Classification of Fishes, Amphib- 

 ians, and Reptiles, or Monocardian animals, . . . 389 



16. Natural History of the fresh water Fish of Centi-al Europe, 390 



17. 18. Elements of Chemistry, and A Manual of Chemistry — 



Hitchcock's Geology, 391 



19, 20. Monograph of the Limniades, and other fresh water Uni- 

 valve Shells of North America — Leonhard's Geology, . 393 

 21. The American Repertory of Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, 

 embracing records of American and other patent inventions 

 — Accounts of Manufactures, Arts, «fec. — Observations on 

 Natural History and Mechanical Science, &c. &c., . . 394 



