CONTENTS. V 



NUMBER IL 



Page. 



Art. I. On the Courses of Hurricanes ; with notices of the Ty- 

 foons of the China Sea, and other Storms ; by W. C. 



Redfield, - - 201 



IL On the Meteor of May 18th, 1838, and on Shooting 



Stars in general ; by Prof. Elias Loomis, - - 223 



III. Account of a Storm in New Hampshire, in a letter ad- 



dressed to Prof. O. P. Hubbard of Dartmouth College ; 



by Rev. John Woods, - 233 



IV. Notes on American Geology ; by T. A. Conrad, - 237 



V. Magneto-Electric and Electro-Magnetic Apparatus and 



Experiments ; by Charles G. Page, M. D., - - 252 



VI. Description of some new Shells ; by Benjamin Tap- 



pan, ..- 268 



VII. On the employment of Uvularia perfoliata as a rem- 



edy for Poisoned Wounds ; by Benjamin Horner 

 CoATEs, M.D., 270 



VIII. An Account of the proceedings of the Eighth Meeting 



of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, .__..-.. 275 



IX. On Cupellation, an easy, an accurate, and new method ; 



by W. W. Mather, - - - - - - 321 



X. Meteoric Observations made at Cambridge, Mass. ; by 



Prof. J. Lovering, .---.. 323 



XI. Notice from Prof. Robert Hare, respecting the Fu- 

 sion of Platina, also respecting a new Ether, and a 

 Series of Gaseous Compounds formed with the Ele- 

 ments of Water, - - 328 



XII. Letters on Steam Navigation ; by Junius Smith, Esq. 



— with a Letter to the Editors, from Mr. Henry Smith, 332 

 XIII. On a New and Effectual Method of Preserving Speci- 

 mens of Organic Nature, and of Obviating the Blanch- 

 ing influences of Light, and the Depredations of Insects ; 

 — -most Advantageously Applicable to the Formation 

 and Unlimited Preservation of a Hortus Siccus, or Mu- 

 seum of Dried Plants ; by Professor John L. Riddell, 



M. D., - - - - 338 



XIV. Electro-Magnetic Engine, constructed by the late A. W. 



Campbell, ---.--.- 343 



XV. Miscellaneous Notices in Opelousas, Attakapas, &c. ; 



by Prof. W. M. Carpenter, - - - . = 344 



