iv CONTENTS. 



Page, 

 XV. On the general principles of the Resistance of Fluids, 

 in a notice of the Fifth Article of No. XV of the South- 

 ern Review; by Lewis R. Gibbes, - - 135 

 XVI. Essay on the Indian Summer, read at a meeting of the 

 Maryland Academy of Sciences, by one of its members, 

 Baltimore, Dec. 16, 1833, - - - - 140 



MISCELLANIES. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



1. Abstract of the Proceedings of the New York Lyceum of 



Natural History, ----- 148 



2. Stony concretions in the ovary of a turtle, - - 163 



3. Vertebral bone of a mastodon, - - - - 165 



4. Fossil Tooth, 166 



5. Some account of the organic remains found in the marl pits 



of Lucas Benners, Esq. in Craven County, N. C. - 168 



6. 7, 8. Confirmatory notice of the medical virtues of Guaco — 



Notice of a hail storm in Louisiana — Ledererite not a new 

 mineral, - - - - •- - 171 



9. Meteorology, ------ 172 



10. Meteorological Journal, _ - . - 173 



11. A Treatise upon elemental locomotion, by means of steam 



carriages, upon common roads, and Journal of Elemental 

 Locomotion, - - - . - - - 174 



12. Notice of ancient pottery, - - - - 175 



13. Notice of the culture of the potatoe in France, - 176 



14. Annual Report of the Regents of the University to the Legis- 



lature of New York, - - - - - 177 



15. 16. Picture gallery of Toronto — Spontaneous combustion, 178 

 17, 18. Wood set on fire by the heat of the sun — Substitute for 



linen, - - - - - - 179 



19. Notice of the United States Medical and Surgical Journal, 180 



20. Strontianite discovered in the United States, - - 182 



21. Munificent donation to Yale College library, - - 184 



22. Telescopes, ------ 184 



23. On electromotors, ----- igg 



24. Influence of the moon on the weather, - - 192 



25. Artificial ultramarine, - - - - - 195 



26. Magnesium the metallic radical of magnesia, - - 196 



