VI CONTENTS. 



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 Mr. Jabez Allies on Marine Shells found in Gravel near Worcester . 70 



Mr. W. R. Wylde on the Topography of Ancient Tyre 71 



Mr. H. E. Strickland's Queries respecting the Gravel in the neighbour- 

 hood of Birmingham 71 



Mr, BiNNEY on Microscopic Vegetable Skeletons found in Peat near 

 Gainsborough 71 



Mr. R. I. MuRCHisoN on the Carboniferous and Devonian Systems of 

 Westphalia 72 



Mr. G. Lloyd's General Outline of the Geology of Warvsrickshire, and a 

 Notice of some new^ Organic Remains of Saurians and Sauroid Fishes 

 belonging to the New Red Sandstone 73 



Mr. BiNNEY on Fossil Fishes from St. George's Colliery near Manchester 75 



Mr. O. Ward on the Foot-prints and Ripple-marks of the New Red 

 Sandstone of Grinshill Hill, Shropshire 75 



Rev. W. BucKLAND on the Action of Acidulated Waters on the surface 

 of the Chalk near Gravesend 7Q 



Mr. Robert Garner on an ceconomical Use of the Granitic Sandstone of 

 North Staffordshire 77 



Mr. Jos. Brooks Yates on the rapid Changes which take place at the 

 entrance of the river Mersey, and the means adopted for establishing 

 an easy access to Vessels resorting thereto 77 



Dr. G. H. Adams on Peat Bogs 78 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. 



Mr. Edwin Lankester on the Formation of Woody Tissue .... 78 

 Mr. Edward Forbes's and Mr. John Goodsir's Notice of Zoological 



Researches in Orkney and Shetland during the month of June 1839 . 79 

 Mr.JoHNGooDSiRon the Follicular Stage of Dentition in the Ruminants, 



with some Remarks on that Process in the other Orders of Mammalia 82 



Mr. Wilde on the Preparation of Fish 84 



Mr. Edward Forbes and Mr. John Goodsir on the Ciliograda of the 



British Seas 85 



Dr. Bellingham on some new Species of Entozoa 86 



Mr. Geo. Webb Hall on the Acceleration of the Growth of Wheat. . 86 

 Mr. William Felkin's Notice of an Experiment on the Growth of 



Silk at Nottingham in 1839 87 



George T. Fox's Observations on Whales, in connexion with the ac- 

 count of the Remains of a Whale recently discovered at Durham . . 89 



Mr. Brand on the Statistics of British Botany 89 



Dr. Pritchard on the Extinction of the Human Races 89 



