CONTENTS OF No. VI. 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 



INTO 'WHICH THE 



EDINBURGH NEW PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL 



IS NOW MERGED. 



APKIL, 1865. 



ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 



. PAGE 



Science, Politics, and Beligion 187 



On the Application of Spectrum-Analysis to Microscopical Investi- 

 gations, and especially to the Detection of Blood-stains. With 

 Two Woodcuts. By H. C. Sorby, F.K.S., &c 198 



On the Health of Metal Miners. By E. Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.E.S. 



With a Diagram 216 



On a Plurality of Worlds. By William Carter, M.B., B.Sc. London. 



With Tivo Page Plates and a Woodcut ...... 227 



Pre-Historic Eecords. With Page Plate. By Eev. C. W. Kett, M.A. 239 



CHRONICLES OF SCIENCE. 



I. Agriculture 260 



II. Astronomy, and the Proceedings of the Eoyal Astronomical 



Society 263 



III. Botany and Vegetable Physiology 269 



IV. Chemistry, including the Proceedings of the Chemical 



Society 277 



