Vi CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Histoire abregee des anomalies de I'Organisation dans les 

 Vegetaux, 374. — A Manual of Botany, 375. — Report on 

 the Manufacture of Iron, 376. — Report on the Inverte- 

 brate Animals of Massachusetts : Reports on the Herba- 

 ceous Plants and Quadrupeds of Massachusetts, 378. — 

 Boston Journal of Natural History : Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, 382. — First Annual Report 

 on the Geology of the state of New Hampshire, 383. — 

 Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts, 384. — 

 Fifth Annual Report on the Geology of Pennsylvania, 

 385. — A sketch of the Geology of Surrey, 386. — Popular 

 Lectures on Geology : Notice of the Relation between 

 the Holy Scriptures and some parts of Geological Sci- 

 ence, 387. — Astronomy for Schools : Pantology, or a Sys- 

 tematic Survey of Human Knowledge, 389. — Notes on 

 Gun powder. Percussion powder, Cannon and Projectiles : 

 Army Meteorological Register for the years 1826-1830, 

 390. 

 XIV. Proceedings of Learned Societies : — British Association 



for the Advancement of Science, .... 391 

 Miscellanies. — Observations on the Shooting Stars of Aug. 9 and 

 10, 1841, 399. — American Polythalmia from the Upper Mis- 

 sissippi, and also from the Cretaceous Formation on the Upper 

 Missouri, 400. — On New Substances from the Peat Mosses : 

 Gilding by Electrography, 402. — Shooting Stars of December 

 7, 1838 : Scientific visit of Charles Lyell, Esq. of London, to 

 the United States : Shower of red matter like blood and mus- 

 cle, 403. 



ERRATA. 



In Mr. Hodge's article on the tertiary of the Soutliern States, are the follo\vin<T 

 mistakes. — For Cytherea reporta, passim, read Cytherea rcposta. 



" Plagiostoma palagicum, read P. pelagicum, pa. 337 1. 10 and 11. 

 " that the honic-niade, read and the home-made, pa. 341 1. 11 fr. hot. 

 " Venus mcrcinaria, read V. mercenaria, pa. 344 1. 7 fr. hot. 



