CONTENTS 
OF 
No. XXVIII. 
Page 
Art. I. The Geological Deluge, as interpreted by Baron Cu- 
vier and Professor Buckland, inconsistent with the 
testimony of Moses and the Phenomena of Nature. 
By the Rev. John Fleming, D.D. F.R.S.E. (Com- 
municated by the Author), - - 205 
II. Notice of the Rocks composing the Mountains which 
occur in the Desert between the Nile and the Red 
Sea. With a Sketch, - - 239 
III. On certain Circumstances connected with the Con- 
densation of Atmospheric Humidity on solid sur- 
faces. By Henry Home Blackadder, Esq. F.R.S.E. 
&c. Surgeon. With a Plate. Communicated by the 
Author. (Concluded from p. 91-) - - 240 
IV. Account of the principal Coal Mines in France, and 
the quantity of Coal which they yield, - 252 
V. On the Modes of Notation of Weiss, Mohs, and Haiiy. 
By M. Levy, M. A. &c. Communicated by the Au- 
thor. (Continued from p. 135.) - - 258 
VL Account of the Poison Plants of the Southern Parts 
of Brazil. (Continued from p. 100.) - 264 
VIII. On the Structure and Nature of the Spongilla friabi- 
lis. By Robert E. Grant, M.D. F.R.S.E. F.L.S. 
M.W.S. &c. Communicated by the Author, 270 
IX, General Reflections on various important subjects in 
Mineralogy. By Frederick Mohs, Esq. Knight of 
the Order of Civil Merit, Professor of Mineralogy 
at Freyberg, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 
burgh, of the Wernerian Society, &c. (Concluded 
from p. 28.) - - - - 284 
