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Art. VI. On the Food of Man under different conditions of 

 Age and Employment. By Dr Lyon Playfair, 

 C.B., F.R.S., . • . .262 



VII. Description of Two Caves in the North Island of New 



Zealand, in which there are Bones of the large extinct 

 wingless birds, called by the Natives the Moa, and 

 by Naturalists the Dinornis ; with some general Ob- 

 servations on this Genus of Birds. By Arthur 

 S. Thomson, M.D., Surgeon of the 58th Regiment, 268 



VIII. Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851 ; followed by 



Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of Dau- 

 phine, Berne, and Savoy. By James D. Forbes, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., Sec. R.S. Ed., Corresponding 

 Member of the Institute of France, and of other 

 Academies ; and Professor of Natural Philosophy 

 in the University of Edinburgh. (Continued from 

 page 169,) . . . . .296 



IX. Notice of the " Silurian System of Central Bohemia, 

 by Joachim Barrande." Communicated by James 

 Nicol, F.R.S., Regius Professor of Natural His- 

 tory, University of Aberdeen, . . . 310 



X. On Vesicles in the Abdominal Cavity and Uterus, 

 containing a Mulberry-like Body rotating on its Axis, 

 and on the Expulsion of the Ovisac from the Ovary. 

 By Martin Barry, M.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E. Com- 

 municated by the Author, . . .319 



XI. The Physical Geography of Hindostan. By Dr 



George Buist, Bombay, . . . 328 



XII. On the Paragenetic Relations of Minerals, . 353 



