CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Art. I. Description of an Automatic Registering and Print- 

 ing Barometer, by Gr. W. Hough, A. M., 1 



Art. II. A History of the Bills of Credit, or Paper Money 

 issued by New York from 1709 to 1786, with a Catalogue 

 of the Various Issues, their Denominations, Dates, and 

 Signers, by John H. Hickcox, 23 



Art. III. Preliminary Notice of the Fauna of the Potsdam 

 Sandstone, with Remarks upon the previously known 

 Species of Fossils and Descriptions of some New Ones, 

 from the Sandstone of the Upper Mississippi Valley, by 

 Prof. James Hall, 93 



Art. IV. History of the Census of the State of New York, 

 and Plan proposed for the State Census of 1865, by Frank- 

 lin B. Hough, 196 



Art. V. Bibliorum Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus. The 

 Sinai Bible, by Howard Townsend, M. D., 229 



Art. VI. Food and its Digestion, by Howard Townsend, 

 M.D., - 241 



Art. VII. An Essay on Motion and Force, by L. Allen, - 257 



Art. VIII. Notices of Peter Penet, and of his Operations 

 among the Oneida Indians ; including a Plan prepared by 

 him for the Government of that Tribe, by Franklin B. 

 Hough, 275 



Art. IX. Water and its Impurities, with reference to the 

 Supply of Large Towns, by Jacob S. Mosher, M. D., - 301 



