CONTENTS. V 



Page. 



5, 6. Morton's Crania Americana — Annals of the Lyceum of 

 Natural History of New York, 214 



7. Description of new species of Mollusca and Shells, with re- 



marks on several Polypi, &c., found in Massachusetts Bay, 216 



8, 9, 10. Third American Edition of Bakewell's Geology — Olm- 



sted's Natural Philosophy — Second Report of the Geology 



of Maine, 219 



Intelligence. 



1. Return of the Bonite from a voyage around the world, 219 



Obituary — The Hon. Nathaniel Bowditch, - - - 220 



NUMBER II. 



Art. I. Description of a Crustaceous Animal, belonging to the 

 genus Caligus — C. Americanus ; by Charles Picker- 

 ing, M. D. and James D. Dana, . - . . 225 

 n. On the Aurora BoreaHs of November 14, 1837; by Prof. 



F. A. P. Barnard, 267 



HI. On the Variation and Dip of the Magnetic Needle in 

 different parts of the United States ; by Prof. Elias 



LooMis, 290 



IV. On the Latitude and Longitude of Yale College Obser- 

 vatory ; by Prof. Elias LooMis, - - - _ 309 

 V. Notice of Warwickite, a new mineral species ; by Prof. 



Charles Upham Shepard, M. D. - - - - 313 

 VL Considerations upon the Nature of the Vegetables that 

 have covered the surface of the Earth, at different 

 epochs of its formation ; by Mons. Adolphe Brong- 

 NiART. Translated from the French, by R. W. Has- 



kins, 315 



VH. Notice of a second locality of Topaz in Connecticut, and 

 of the Phenakite in Massachusetts ; by Prof. Charles 



Upham Shepard, M. D. 329 



VHI. Chemical Analysis of Meteoric Iron, from Claiborne, 



Clarke County, Alabama ; by Charles T. Jackson, 332 

 IX. Table of Greek Correlatives, accompanied with explana- 

 tions ; by Prof. Josiah W. GiBBs, - - - - 337 



