CONTENTS 
OF 
No. XVI. 
Page 
Art. I. Biographical Account of Sir William Herschel, 
Knight Guelph, LL. D. F. R. S., &c. &c. - 209 
II. On Fossil Organic Remains as a Geognostic Cha- 
racter. By Alexander Brongniart, Member of 
the Institute of France, &c. &c- - 226 
III. Account of Captain Hodgson’s Journey to the Head of 
the Ganges, - - - 231 
IV. Historical Account of Discoveries respecting the 
Double Refraction and the Polarisation of Light. 
(Continued from p. 160. of this volume.) 
Sect. III. — Continued. Account of the Experiments of Mr 
Benjamin Martin, . - - 245 
V. Observations on a New Genus of Plants, belonging to 
the Natural Order Gastromyci. By Robert Kaye 
Greville, Esq. F. R. S. E. & M. W. S., &c. - 256 
VI. Miscellaneous Notices in Natural History, by Profes- 
sor Blumenbach, 
1. Account of the Snow Ophthalmia, with the methods em- 
ployed for preventing it, - - 259 
2. Remarkable Irritability of the Tongue, - 261 
3. The Xanthoopia of Jaundiced Persons, * 264 
4. On the Prickle at the Extremity of the Tail of the Lion, 266 
5. Domestic Sheep again become Wild, - - 268 
6. The Genuine Opsian Stone, - - 269 
