CONTENTS. ill 



PAG1Z 



Edited by H. T. Statnton, Author of the " Entomo- 

 logist's Companion." .... 342 



4. Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 1854, 345 



5. Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, 1853, 345 



6. Malvern Naturalists' Field Club, 1855, . . 345 



7- Introductory Text-Book of Geology. By David Page, 



F.G.S., ..... 348 



8. Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Honour- 

 able East India Company, . . . 349 



CORRESPONDENCE :— 



1. Letter from Mr W. Mills, Missionary in Navigator Isl- 



ands, . . . . .349 



2. Natal Geology. Extract of Letter from Dr. P . C. 



Sutherland to the late Professor E. Forbes, . 350 



3. Himalayan Geology. Extract of a Letter from T. Old- 



ham, Esq., to the late Professor E. Forbes, . 351 



4. Gutta Percha in India. Extract of a Letter from Dr 



Hugh Cleghorn, Madras, to i rofessor Balfour, 352 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES:— 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, .... 352 



Royal Physical Society, . . . .363 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh. . . .371 



Californian Academy of Natural Sciences, . 374 



Publications Received, . 375 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE :— 



ZOOLOGY. 



1. Melanerpes formicivorus. 2. Societe Zoologique d' Accli- 

 matation. 3. Introduction of Foreign Species of Sal- 

 mon. 4. Eschara cervicornis, . 376-377 



GEOLOGY. 



5. Cause of the Gray Colour in Dolomite and other Nep- 

 tunian Rocks, .... 377 



