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Art. I. Description of New Species of Fossils from the Car- 

 boniferous Limestones of Indiana and Illinois, by James 

 Hall, : 1 



Art. II. Descriptions of New Organic Remains from the Creta- 

 ceous Rocks of Vancouver's Island, by F. B. Meek, - - 37 



Art. III. Suggestions for a Plan combining the advantages of 

 the Decimal and Dual Systems of Subdivision of Weights 

 and Measures, - 50 



Art. IV. Sarcophagus of Esmunazar, king of Sidon, - - 68 



Art. IV. Descriptions of New Organic Remains from North- 

 Eastern Kansas, indicating the Existence of Permian Rocks 

 in that Territory, by F. B. Meek and F. V. Hayden, M. D., 73 



Art. V. A Review of Hickok's Rational Cosmology, by David 

 Murray, Secretary of the Albany Institute, 89 



Art. VI. Account of the Premiums awarded by Law in the 

 State of New York, for the encouragement of Household 

 Manufactures of Woolen Cloths, in 1809, 1810, 1811,1813, 

 1814, with references to Samples of these Premium Cloths 

 preserved in the Library of the Albany Institute ; prepared 

 by Franklin B. Hough, under a resolution of the Institute, 

 dated February 14, I860, 113 



Art. VII. Observations upon some of the Brachiopoda, with 

 reference to the genera Cryptonella, Centronella, Meristella, 

 and allied forms, by James Hall, 125 



