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CONTENTS. 



Art. IV. First Annual Report regarding New Inventions and 

 Improvements in the Useful Arts throughout 

 Europe ; ordered by the Society of Arts for Scot- 

 land : Being a Report on the recent Improve- 

 ments of the Carpet Manufacture. By Mr Ed- 

 ward Sang,, Teacher of Mathematics, and Lec- 

 turer on Natural Philosophy, Edinburgh, M. S. A. 254 



V. On the Vegetables which are found in the Thermal 

 Mineral Waters of Abano, and in their imme- 

 diate vicinity. By Dr Andrejewskyi, - 261 



VI. On the Animals designated in the Scriptures by the 

 Names of Leviathan and Behemoth, Communi- 

 cated by the Author, - 263 



VII. On the Falls of Niagara, and the Reasonings of 

 some Authors respecting them. By Henry D. 

 Rogers, F. G. S. of London, &c. - - 281 



VIII. Remarks on the Distribution of Insects, and Ac- 

 count of Coleoptera taken in Sutherland in June 

 3834. By James Wilson, Esq., F. R. S. E., 

 M. W. S-, &c. Communicated by the Author, 292 



IX. On the Chemical Nature of Fossil Scales, as illus- 

 trative of the Character of the Animals to which 

 they have belonged. By A. Connell, Esq., 

 F.R.S.E., &c Communicated by the Author, 300 



X, Notice of an Arrangement for the Measurement of 

 the Angles of very Minute Crystals. By the 

 Rev. Edward Craig, A. M., Oxon., F. R. S. E., 

 Councillor of the Society of Arts, - - 306 



XL Description of a New Spring for Shutting a Door, 

 which goes both ways. By Alexander Beat- 

 tie, Foreman to Mr Robert Ritchie, Iron- 

 monger to the King, 241 High Street, Edin- 

 burgh, - 309 



Report of Committee of Society of Arts on Mr Beattie's 

 Spring Door, read 9th April 1834, with a Plate, 310 



XII. On the different Chronology of the Deluge, accord- 

 ing to the Hebrew Text and the Septuagint 

 Translation. In a letter to Professor Jameson, 

 by Mr James Laurie, Edinburgh, - - 31 1 



