CONTENTS OF No. V. 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 



INTO WHICH THE 



EDINBUEGH NEW PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL 



IS NOW MERGED. 



JANUAEY, 1865. 



ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 



PAGE 



The Science and Art Department 1 



On the Mammals of Australia. With a Plate by Wolf. By P. L. 

 Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.B.S., Secretary to the Zoological Society 

 of London 13 ■ - "y--.^- 



On the History of the British Coal Measures : being an Account of 

 the Bange and Distribution of the Coal Formations beneath the 

 more Becent Strata of the Central and Southern Counties of 

 England. With a Map. By Edward Hull, B.A., F.G.S., &c. . 19 



On the Causes of Britain's Greatness : a Beview of the Belations of 

 her Geology and Geography to her History. By William Pen- 

 gelly, F.E.S., &c 27 



On the Oral Instruction of the So-called Deaf and Dumb : being- 

 some Account of the System of Tuition by Lip-reading and 

 Articulation. By Gerard Van Asch, Manchester, late Teacher 

 at the School for the Deaf and Dumb, Botterdam ... 38 



Petroleum : its Importance, its History ; Boring, Befining. By 

 Henry Draper, M.D., Professor of Natural Science in the 

 University of New York 49 



On Metal Mining. With a Plate. By Dr. B. Angus Smith, F.B.S., 



&c 59 



CHRONICLES OF SCIENCE. 

 I. Agriculture 70 



II. Astronomy, and the Proceedings of the Boyal Astronomical 



Society ... 73 



