CONTENTS TOIL VOL. IX, 



GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, TOPOGRARHY, &c, 



Page 

 Notice of Snake Hill and Saratoga Lake, and its environs, by Dr. 



J. H. Steele, T 



Prof. Olmsted on the Gold Mines of North Carolina, - - . 5 

 Description of the Oolitic Formation of Saratoga Co. N. Y. by Dr. 



J. H. Steele, - - - 16 



Notice of a Singular Conformation of Limestone, by Prof. Dewey, 19 

 Notice of several Localities of Minerals in Massachusetts, by Rev. 



E. Hitchcock, 20 



Geological and Miscellaneous Observations, by M. Boue, - 23 



Notice of a Rocking Stone in Savoy, Mass, by Dr. J. Porter, - 27 

 On Bowlders and Rolled Stones, ------ 28 



Notices of Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals, - - - 39 



On Earthquakes — their Cause§ and EflFects, by Isaac Lea, - 209 

 An Account of the Earthquakes which occurred in Sicily, in March 



1823, by Prof. Ferrara of Pale i-mo, 216 



Remarks on the Moving Rocks of Salisbury, by Charles A. Lee, 239 

 Notice of the Flexible or Elastic Marble of Berkshire County, by 



Prof. C. Dewey, -----.., 241 



An Account of some New and Extraordinary Minerals discovered 



in Warwick, Orange, Co. N. Y. by Samuel Fowler, M. D. - 242 

 Notices of Miscellaneous Localities of Minerals - - - 240 

 Geological Systems — Geological Maps — Chatoyant Feldspar, (Ex- 

 tract of Letters to the Editor from Mr. Maclure,) .. - 253 



BOTANY. 



Physiology of the Gyropodium coccineum, by the Rev. E. Hitch- 

 cock, 50 



Caricography, (continued,) by Prof. C. Dewey, - - . 60 

 List of the Rarer Plants found in Alabama, by M. C. Leavenworth, 

 M. D, - 74 



Caricography, (continued,) by Prof. C, Dewey, ... 257 



On the Botany of America, by W. J. E[ooker,'LL. D. F. R. S. E. 263 



ZOOLOGY. 



On Hybernation, by Isaac Lea of Philadelphia, ~ - - 75 



On the Emigi'ation of a Colony of Caterpillars, observed in Pro- 

 vence, by James Skene, Esq. - - - - - - 28 1 



Account of an Insect of the Genus Urocerus which came out of the 

 wood of a Table, by Mr. John Foggo, .... 258 



The Hedge-Hog Ray, a new species of Fish, by Samuel L. Mitchill, 

 M. and LL. D. ' - ■■ ' - ~ - - - - - 290 



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