IV CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 



Page. 



1. Fifth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 347 



2. Report of the fourth meeting of the British Association, - - 355 



3. Lyell's Geology, ------- 358 



4. Notice of a new mode of preserving animal bodies ; by Mr. H. N. Day, 359 



5. 6. Remains of birds in the strata of Tilgate Forest — Specimens from Dr. 



Mantell, -------- 362 



7, 8. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles — Gradual rising of parts of Swe- 

 den, and of other countries around the Baltic, - - - , 363 

 9. Notice of a Plesiosaurus and other fossils, and of remarkable human re- 

 mains, &c. --.----. 364 



10, 11, 12. Volcanic eruption — Diamond, matrix of, &c. — Proceedings of the 



fifth meeting of the British Association, - - - _ 366 



13, 14. Mr. Hawkins' collection of Saurian remains — Observations on a dis- 

 ease affecting the leaves of the vine, and on a new .species of Mucedinea, 367 



15. On Mercaptan, -------- 368 



16. Experiments upon the chemical action of electrical currents produced by 



the influence of terre.strial magnetism and electro-dynamic magnets, &c. 369 



17. New compounds of nitrogen, ------ 371 



18. 19, 20, 21. Depth of mines — Topaz in Ireland — Roasting of copper ores — 



The best method of assaying the ores of manganese, - - 374 



22. Jahresbericht der Konigl. Sclnvedischen, &c. - . - 375 



23. On the cause of the meteors of Nov. 13lh, 1833; by Prof D. Olmsted, 376 



24. Observations upon the facts recently presented by Prof. Olmsted, in rela- 

 tion to the meteors seen on the 13th of Nov. 1834; by Prof. A. D. Bache, 383 



25. Aurora Borealis of Nov. 17th, 1835, - - - - - 388 



26. 27. Transactions of the ^Geological Society of Pennsylvania — Mr. Con- 



rad's nevv work on American conchology, - - - . 391 



28. Valuable cabinet of minerals for sale, - - - - - 392 



29, 30. Botanical specimens wanted — Fossil Flora of North America, - 393 

 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. History of the Americas — Prodromus herbarium Rafines- 



quianum — Autiken Botanikon — Diamonds in N. America — Obituary, 394 

 36. List of new publications, ...... 396 



ERRATA. 



P. 22, bot. 1. dele " Walhouding or" and insert " the." — p. 27, 1. 15 fr. top, far 

 " shells," read " shales." — p. 38, 1. 8 fr. bot- for " Monongahela," read " Maxahala." 

 — p. 40, 1. 15 fr. bot. for " leaves," read " covers." — p. 50, 1. 4 fr. top, for '= Another," 

 read " Descriptions." — p. 71, 1. 6 fr. top. dele "or Walhouding." — p. 102 1. 10 fr. 

 top, for " poles," read " polls." — p. 274, 1. 4 fr. top, and 1. 10 fr. bot. for " 28," read 

 " 27." — p. 315, 1. 12 fr. bot. for " opvva and T't;ti'otf," read " opwj and oxvos" 



Dr. Hildreth does not consider it as quite certain, although highly probable, that 

 the rock which he has called Lias, is identical with that of England ; the opinion, 

 that they are geologically identical, is ably maintained by another gentleman, whose 

 observations will appear in our next number. — Ed. 



Vol. xxviir.p. Ill, 1. 6fr. top, for " W. W.," read « F. H."— p. 118, 1. 5 fr. top, 

 for " 10.63," read " 1063 grs."— p. 378, 1. 7, 10, 16, 27, and contents p. 7. 1. 8 fr. top, 

 for " Brown," read " Bronn." 



