CONTENTS. V 



Page. 



12. Shower of Falling Stars in Russia, on the night between the 



12th and 13th November, 1832, 189 



13, 14. Declination and Inclination of the Magnetic Needle at 

 Paris — Progressive Rise of a portion of the bottom of the 

 Mediterranean, -..----- 190 



15. Hail, ......... 191 



16, 17. New Animal — Ornithology, 192 



18, 19. The Tongues of Ducks— Locusts, - - - - 193 

 20. Memorandum of an excursion to the tea hills, which pro- 

 duce the description of tea known in commerce under the 



designation of Ankoy (Nganke) tea, . _ . - 194 



NUMBER II. 



Art. I. Memoir of Rev. John Prince, LL. D., late Senior Pastor 

 of the First Church in Salem, Mass. ; by Rev. Charles 



W. Upham, - - 201 



II. On the Length of a Degree of the Terrestrial Meridian — 

 Oblateness and axes of the Earth — Comparative oblate- 

 ness of the Planets — Reduction of Latitude — Radius of 

 the Earth — and Length of a Degree of Parallels of Lati- 

 tude, with appropriate Tables ; by Prof. Tho. Jeffer- 

 son Cram, of West Point, 222 



III. On Definitions ; by Rev. D. Wilkie, - - - 236 



IV. Remarks on the Geology of Western New York ; by 



Geo. E. Hayes, 241 



V. On Zinc, as a covering for buildings ; by Prof. A. Cas- 

 well, 248 



VI. An account of a Hurricane, which visited Shelbyville, 



Tennessee, June 1st, 1830; by Dr. J. H. Kain, - 252 

 VII. On the sections of a plane, with the solids formed by the 

 revolution of the conic sections, about axes situated in 

 their planes ; by Prof. Benedict, Univ. Vermont, 258 



VIII. On the Conduction of Water ; by Prof. C. Dewey, 266 



IX. Breithaupt's new Specific Gravities of Minerals ; by Dr. 



Lewis Feuchtwanger, 268 



X. Expeditious Mode of Manufacturing Vinegar, practiced 



in Germany; by Dr. Lewis Feuchtwanger, - 272 



