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CONTENTS. 



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I. Notes of Travel in China ; by James H. Morris, M.A 161 



II. On the Employment of the Electric Telegraph for Predicting Storms; 



by Prof. G. T. Kingston, M.A 117 



III. Report on Professor Kingston's Electric Telegraph for Predicting Storms 1*79 



IV. On an Occupation of Spica Virginia by the Moon; by Col. Baron de 



Kottenburg 180 



Reviews : 



1. Recherehes sur les principes Matheinatiques de la Theorie des 



Richesses ; par Augustin Cournot 185 



2. Account of U.S.N. Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemis- 



phere, during the years 1849-E2 ; by Lieut. Gilliss, U.S.N 195 



3. The Testimony of the Rocks ; by Hugh Miller 201 



4. The Canada Educational Directory and Calendar for 185*7-8; by 



.Thomas Hodgins, B-A. 207 



5. Indigenous Races of the Earth ; or. New Chapters of Ethnological 



Inquiry ; by J. C. Nott, M.D., and Geo. R. Gliddin 208 



Scientific and Literary Notes : 



Geology and Mineralogy 216 



Physiology and Natural History 219 



Ethnology and Archaeology 221 



Canadian Institute 222 



February Meteorological Table for Toronto 226 



Remarks on " " 227 



March Meteorological Table for Toronto 228 



Remarks on " ' " " 229 



February Meteorological Table for St. Martin, Isle Jesus 230 



March 231 



Remarks on Meteorological Tables for St. Martin, Isle Jesus 23 



The next Number of this Journal will be issued in July. 



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