CONTENTS. 
X. Observations upon the Marine Barometer , made during the 
Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South 
Wales , in the Tears 1801, 1802, and 1803. By Matthew 
Flinders, Esq. Commander of his Majesty’s Ship Investigator. 
In a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K. B. 
P. R. S. &c. &c. &c. page 239 
XI. Account of a Discovety of native Minium. In a Letter 
from James Smithson, Esq. F. R. S. to the Right Hon. Sir 
Joseph Banks, K. B. P. R. S. p. 2 6 y 
XII. Description of a rare Species of Worm Shells, discovered at 
an Island lying off the North-west Coast of the Island of 
Sumatra, in the East Indies. By J. Griffiths, Esq. Commu- 
nicated by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K. B. P. R. S. 
p, 269 
XIII. Observations on the Shell of the Sea Worm found on the 
Coast of Sumatra, proving it to belong to a Species of Teredo ; 
with an Account of the Anatomy of the Teredo Navalis. By 
Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S. p. 276 
XIV. On the inverted Action of the alburnous Vessels of Trees. 
By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. In a Letter to 
the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K. B, P. R . S. p. 292 
XV. A new Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem, when the 
Exponent is a positive or negative Fraction. By the Rev. 
Abram Robertson, A. M. F. R, S. Savilian Professor of 
Geometry in the University of Oxford. In a Letter to Davies 
Giddy, Esq. F. R . S, p. 305 
