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Art. I. Biography of Berzelius. By Professor H. Rose 



of Berlin, 189 



II. Some Observations on the Ova of the Salmonidse. 

 By John Davy, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Com- 

 municated by the Author, . , . 221 



III. On the Condition and Prospects of the Aborigines 

 of Australia. By W. Westgarth, Esq., 



1. Present Aboriginal Population, . . 225 



2. Their Decrease, and the Causes to which this 

 circumstance is attributable ; their Present 

 Condition, and Means of Subsistence, . 228 



3. Infanticide, 232 



4. Intermixture of Race with the Whites, 233 



5. Physical Aspect, . . . . 234 



6. Language, 234 



7. Religious and Social Institutions, Customs, and 

 Manners, 235 



8. General Character, and Degree of Aptitude 



for Employment and Civilisation, . . 238 



IV. On the Geysers of California, . . 241 



V. On Meteorites. By Charles Upham Shepard, 

 M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy. 

 Communicated by the Author, 



1. Tuttehpore, Hindostan, Nov. 30, 1822, 245 



2. Charwallas, 30 miles from Hissar, India, June 



12, 1834, 246 



3. Meteoric Iron, County Down, Ireland. Fell 

 August 10, 5 p.m., 1846, . . . 246 



4. Description of a Large Stone of the Linn Co., 

 Iowa, fall of Feb., 25, 1847, . . . 247 



5. Meteoric Stone of Waterloo, Seneca Co., N. Y.; 



fell in the summer of 1826 or 1827, . 248 



6. Specific gravity of two meteoric irons, 249 



