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Art. XXII. Some Account of the Proteus anguinus. By J. C. 



Dalton Junior, M.D., . . . .332 



XXIII. Researches on Granite. By A. Delesse, . 341 



XXIV. On the Paragenetic Relations of Minerals. (Con- 



tinued from vol. Iv. p. 106), . . 345 



XXV. Anniversary Address to the Ethnological Society, 



London. By Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart. 352 

 XXVI. Scientific Intelligence : — 



MINERALOGY. 



1. Native Metallic Iron. 2. Glauberite from South 

 Peru ; by M. Ulex. 3. Structure of Agate ; by 

 Theodore Giirabel. 4. Scleretinite a new fossil 

 resin; by J. W. Mallet. 5. Pseudomorphous 

 Crystals of Chloride of Sodium ; by Gr. "VVare- 

 ing Omerod, M.A., F.G.S. 6. Smyth on Pseudo- 

 morphous Crystals of Chloride of Sodium. 7. 

 Matlockite; by C. Rammelsberg, . . 358-362 



GEOLOGY. 



8. On the Structural Characters of Rocks ; by Dr 

 Fleming : Flawed Structure — Columnar Struc- 

 ture — Cone Structure. 9. Almaden Mine, 

 California, ...... 363, 364 



METEOROLOGY. 



10. An Account of Meteorological Observations in 

 four Balloon Ascents made under the direction 

 of the Kew Observatory Committee of the 

 British Association ; by John Welsh, Esq. 11. 

 Influence of Light upon the Colour of the 

 Prawn. 12. Coralline Light. 13. Aurora Bo- 

 realis, 365-368 



ZOOLOGY. 



1-i. The Structure and Economy of Tethea, and 

 an undescribed species from the Spitzbergen 

 Seas; by Professor Goodsir. 15. Hungarian 

 Nightingale. 16. M. Quatrefages 1 Method for 

 destroying Insects, .... 368, 370 



BOTANY. 



17. Experimental Researches on Vegetation ; by 



M. George Ville, .... 370-372 



miscellaneous. 



18. On Extinguishing Fires by Steam. 372 



