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CONTENTS. 
PART II. (1859-60.) 
Description of the Plant which produces the Ordeal Bean of Calabar. By 
JoHN Hutton Batrour, A.M., M.D., F.R.SS. L. & E., Professor 
of Medicine and Botany in the Uaneee of Bainburgh (With 
two Plates, XVI. and XVIL.), : : : 
. On an unusual Drought in the Lake District in 1859. By Joun Davy, 
M.D., F.R.SS. Lond. & Edin., &c., 
Upon the Thyroid Glands in the Cetacea, with Observations on the Rela- 
tions of the Thymus to the Thyroid in these and certain other Mam- 
mals. By Witu1am Turner, M.B. (Lond.), Senior Demonstrator 
of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh. Communicated by Profes- 
sor GooDsIR, : : : : 
On the Climate of Edinburgh for Fifty-six years, from 1795 to 1850, 
deduced principally from Mr Adie’s Observations ; with an Account 
of other and Earlier Registers. By James D. Fores, D.C.L., F.RB.S., 
Sec. R.S. Ed., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University 
of Edinburgh. (With two Plates, XVIII. and XIX.), 
Account of a Thermometrical Register kept at Dunfermline by the Rev. 
Henry Fergus, from 1799 till 1837, with the principal Results. By 
James D. Forses, D.C.L., F.R.S., Sec. R.S. Ed., Professor of 
Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, 
Description of Asafetida Plants (Narthex Asafoetida, Falconer) which 
have recently borne Flowers and Fruit in the Royal Botanic Garden 
of Edinburgh. By J. H. Batrour, A.M., M.D., F.R.SS. L. & E. 
(With two Plates, XX. and XXI_), 
On the Constitution of Oil of Cajeput. By Maximi~1aAn ScHMIDL, Assis- 
tant to Professor Anderson in the Laboratory of Glasgow College. 
Communicated by Dr ANDERSON, 
Notes on the Mountain Limestone and Lower Carboniferous Rocks of the 
Fifeshire Coast from Burntisland to St Andrews. By the Rev. 
Tuomas Brown, Edinburgh. Communicated by Dr ALLMAN, 
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