CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANIES. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



Page. 



1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, - 153 



2. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, - 193 



3. Reports on the Shells and Minerals presented by Dr. Brinck- 



erhoft'to the New York Lyceum of Natural History, - 198 



4. Further account of the Shooting Stars of Aug. 9 and 10, 1839, 203 



5. 6. British Antarctic Expedition — Compound Electro-Magnet, 204 

 7, 8. Exchanges of American Shells and Insects — The Railway 



Magazine and Steam Navigation Journal, - - 205 



9, 10. To remove Carbonic Acid Gas from Wells, &.c. — The 



Katakekaumene, ------ 206 



NUMBER II. 



Art. I. Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism. On Elec- 

 tro-Dynamic Induction ; by Prof. Joseph Henry, 209 

 II. Analysis of a Chromic Iron Ore, first observed by R. 

 C. Taylor, Esq., at Mahobal, near Gibara, Island of 

 Cuba ; by James C. Booth and M. Carey Lea, - 243 



III. Remarks upon some of the probable effects of a Re- 



sisting Medium ; by Prof. Thomas H. Perry, 246 



IV. Description and Analysis of a Meteoric mass, found in 



Tennessee, composed of Metallic Iron, Graphite, Hy- 

 droxide of Iron and Pyrites; by Prof. G. Troost, M. D., 250 

 V. Notice of Tracks of Animals in Variegated Sandstone 

 at Polzig, between Ronneburg and Weissenfels ; by 

 Hr. Dr. B. Cotta, 255 



VI. Observations on the Aurora Borealis of Sept. 3, 1839; 



communicated by Edward C. Herrick, - - 280 



VII. Abstracts of Meteorological Observations made at St. 

 Johns, Newfoundland, and at Canton, in China : with 

 some Notice of the Half Yearly Inequalities of At- 

 mospheric Distribution, which appear in these Obser- 

 vations ; by W. C. Redfield, - - - . 265 

 VIII. Abstract of a Meteorological Journal for the year 1839, 

 kept at Marietta, Ohio, Lat. 39° 25' N., and Lon. 4° 

 28' W. of Washington City ; by S. P. Hildreth, M. D., 273 



IX. Description of a New Compensating Pendulum ; by 



William Gwynn Jones, 374 



