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On the Structure of Normal and Adventitious Bone. By Alfred Smee, 

 Esq page 198 



An attempt to establish a new and general Notation, applicable to 

 the doctrine of Life Contingencies. By Peter Hardy, Esq. F.R.S. 198 



Observations on Single Vision with two Eyes. By T. Wharton Jones, 

 Esq 198 



Observations on the Blood-corpuscles of certain species of the Genus 

 Cervus. By George Gulliver, Esq. F.R.S. Assistant Surgeon to 

 the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards 199 



Meteorological Register kept at Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, du- 

 ring the year 1838. By Deputy-Assistant Commissary- General 

 Lempriere, in south latitude43° 6' 9", and east longitude 147° 51 '33" 200 



Experimental Researches in Electricity. — Sixteenth Series. By Mi- 

 chael Faraday, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. &c 200 



On the Wet Summer of 1839. By Luke Howard, Esq. F.R.S. &c... 203 



On the chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on prepa- 

 rations of Silver and other substances, both metallic and non-me- 

 tallic ; and on some Photographic processes. By Sir John F. W. 

 Herschel, Bart. K.H. V.P.R.S. &c 205 



Remarks on the Theory of the Dispersion of Light, as connected with 

 Polarization. By the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A. F.R.S. and Savi- 

 lian Professor of Geometry, Oxford 210 



Further Particulars of the Fall of the Cold Bokkeveld Meteorite. By 

 Thomas Maclear, Esq. F.R.S., in a letter to Sir John F. W. Her- 

 schel, Bart. K.H. V.P.R.S. &c. 210 



An Account of the Shooting Stars of 1095 and 1243. By Sir Francis 

 Palgrave, K.H. F.R.S. &c 210 



On certain variations of the mean height of the Barometer, mean tem- 

 perature and depth of Rain, connected with the Lunar Phases, in 

 the cycle of years from 1815 to 1823. By Luke Howard, Esq. 

 F.R.S 211 



On the theory of the dark bands formed in the solar spectrum from 

 partial interception by transparent plates. By the Rev. Baden 

 Powell, M.A. F.R.S. SaviUan Professor of Geometry in the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford 211 



Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism. By Major Edward Sabine, 

 R.A. V.P.R.S 212 



Researches in Electricity. — Seventeenth Series. On the source of 

 power in the Voltaic Pile. By Michael Faraday, Esq. D.C.L. 

 F.R.S. &c 213 



Additional Note to the Eleventh Series of Researches on the Tides. 

 By the Rev. William Whewell, B.D. F.R.S. &c 217 



On the Nervous System. By Sir Charles Bell, F.R.S 218 



On the Constitution of the Resins. — Part IV. By James F. W. 

 Johnston, Esq. M.A. F.R.S 218 



A Letter from Sir John Barrow, Bart. V.P., addressed to the President, 

 accompanying a series of Magnetic Observations made on shore, 

 and on board Her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror, under the di- 

 rection of Captain James Clark Ross, R.N., together with a Series of 



