IV CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANIES. 



Page. 



1. Report on the Shooting Stars of the 9th and 10th of August, 



1838, 167 



2. Observations made at Yale College on the Solar eclipse of 



Sept. 18, 1838, ....... 174 



3. Supposed New Mineral at Bolton, Mass. ... 178 



4. 5. New Locality of Crichtojnite — Stilbite, Chabasie, and other 



minerals at Stonington, Ct. . . . . . 179 



6, 7. Crichtonite in R. I. — Notice of the New Flora of North 



America now publishing by John Torrey and Asa Gray, 180 



8. Redfield's Law of Storms ; — Notice of Lieut. Col. Reid's 



work on hurricanes, 182 



9. Notice of Lea's Observations on the genus Unio, &c. - 184 



10. Notice of Holbrook's North American Herpetology, Vols. 



1 & 2, - - - - - - - - - 186 



11, 12. Announcement of Second Part to Shepard's Descriptive 



Mineralogy — Blowpipe mouth for oxygen and hydrogen, 187 



13. Salisbury's Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Avon, N. Y. 188 



14. Notice of Feuchtwanger's Treatise on Gems, - - 189 



15. Extreme heat at Cumberland, Md. in July, 1838, - - 190 



16. Evidences of diluvial currents, &c. ... - 191 



17. Notice of the American Almanac for 1839, ... 191 



18. 19, 20. Green Feldspar and Galena — Fossil fishes in the red 



sandstone of New Jersey — U. S. South Sea Surveying 

 and Exploring Expedition, ..... 192 



21. Annals of Natural History, or Magazine of Zoology, Botany, 



and Geology, - 194 



22. Analysis of Gmelinite or Hydrolite, .... 195 



23. Prof. Owen on the Fossil Animals collected by Mr. Charles 



Darwin, 196 



24. 25. Presentation of the Wollaston Medal — On the Rapidity 



of Motion in Railway Cars which is consistent with safety, 19? 



26. On the Gases contained in the Blood, and on Respiration, 198 



27. Eighth Meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 



ment of Science, - 200 



