REGIUS PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OF
THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH;

Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; of the Antiquarian, Wernerian and Horti-
cultural Societies of Edinburgh; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Royal
Dublin Society; Fellow of the Linnean and Geological Societies of London; Honorary Member
of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and of the Cam-
bridge Philosophical Society; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Northern, and Cork Institutions;
of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle; of the Royal So-
ciety of Sciences of Denmark; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin; of the Royal Aca-
demy of Naples; of the Imperial Natural History Society of Moscow; of the Imperial Phar-
maceutical Society of Petersburgh; of the Natural History Society of Wetterau; of the Mine-
ralogical Society of Jena; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of Dresden; of the Natural His-
tory Society of Paris; of the Philomathic Society of Paris; of the Natural History Society of
Calvados; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History; of the Society of Natural Sciences and
Medicine of Heidelberg; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New
York; of the New York Historical Society; of the American Antiquarian Society; of the Aca-
demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York; of
the Natural History Society of Montreal, &c. &c.

OCTOBER 1830...APRIL 1831.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR ADAM BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH ;
AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN,

LONDON.

1831.

Neill & Co. Printers, Edinburgh.

Aug. 11, 1939

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CONTENTS.

ART. I. Biographical Memoir of M. DUHAMEL. By Baron

II. Observations in Answer to a Memoir by Messrs SEDG-

WICK and MURCHISON on the Austrian Alps. By

AMI BOUÉ, M. D. F.G. S. M.W.S. &c. &c. Com-

municated by the Author,

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1

14

By

Communi-

35

III. On the Chemical Constitution of Brewsterite.

ARTHUR CONNELL, Esq. F. R. S. E.

cated by the Author,

IV. A Series of Barometric Observations. By W. GAL-

BRAITH, Esq. A. M. Communicated by the Au-

thor,

V. On the Luxury of the Romans,

VI. An Account of a peculiarity, not hitherto described, in

the Ankle or Hock-joint of the Horse; with Re-

marks on the Structure of the Vertebræ in the spe-

cies of Whale entitled Delphinus Diodon. By Ro-

BERT J. GRAVES, M. D. M. R. I. A. King's Professor

of the Institutes of Medicine, Honorary Member of

the Royal Medical Society of Berlin, of the Medical

Association of Hamburgh, &c. &c.

VII. On the Lacustrine Basins of Baza and Alhama, in the

Province of Grenada in Spain. By Colonel CHARLES

SILVERTOP, M. G. S. L. Communicated by the Au-

thor. (Concluded from former Volume, p. 439.)

With a Plate,

VIII. On the Development of the Vascular System in the

Fœtus of Vertebrated Animals. Part II. By AL-

LEN THOMSON, M. D. late President of the Royal

Medical Society. Communicated by the Author.

(Continued from former Volume, p. 327.),

40

49

59

65

888

ART. IX. On the Characters and Affinities of certain Genera

chiefly belonging to the Flora Peruviana. By Mr

DAVID DON, Librarian to the Linnean Society,

Member of the Imperial Academy Nature Curio-
sorum, of the Royal Botanical Society of Ratis-
bon, and of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh,

&c.

X. New Observations on the Blood-like Phenomena ob-

served in Egypt, Arabia, and Siberia, with a View

and Critique of the early Accounts of Similar Ap-

pearances. By Mr C. G. EHRENBERG,

XI. Observations on the Greenland Sea, as connected

with the late Disasters in Baffin's Bay. By THO-

MAS LATTA, M. D. Member of the Wernerian So-

ciety. With a Map. Communicated by the Au-

thor,

112

122

136

146

163

XII. Observations on the History and Progress of Com-

parative Anatomy. By DAVID CRAIGIE, M. D.

&c. Communicated by the Author,

XIII. On the occurrence of Chalk and Chalk-flint in Banff-

shire. By JAMES CHRISTIE, Esq. Secretary to

the Banff. Communicated by the Author,

XIV. Account of Aërial Shadows seen from the Cairngorm

Mountains. By JOHN MACPHERSON GRANT, Esq.

jun. of Ballindalloch. In a Letter to the Editor, 165

XV. Description of several New or Rare Plants which

have lately flowered in the neighbourhood of Edin-

burgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden.

By Dr GRAHAM, Professor of Botany in the Uni-

versity of Edinburgh,

XVI. Celestial Phenomena from January 1. to April 1.

1831, calculated for the Meridian of Edinburgh,

166

1. Heavy fall of Rain, and frequent appearance of Aurora bo-

realis, in September 1830. 2. Water Spout in the Lake

of Neufchatel.

3. Polar Lights in Shetland. 4. Ni-

trous Atmosphere of Tirhoot,

GEOLOGY.

176-177

5. Heights of Table Lands. 6. Lake Aral. 7. Fossil Shells

in the Snowy Mountains of Thibet. 8. Bone Caves dis-

covered in New Holland. 9. Leonhard on the Basaltic

Formation,

ZOOLOGY.

178, 179

10. On the Existence of Animalcula in Snow. 11. Mr Mar-

shall on a Heifer which yielded Milk. 12. Frog and

Insect Plague of Mullye. 13. Further notice of Ehren-

berg's Observations on the Infusoria. 14. Flying of Man

and Birds,

BOTANY, HORTICULTURE, &c.

180-184

15. Erica mediterranea found native in Ireland. 16. Hybrid

Azaleas. 17. Preservation of Fruit-Trees from Hares.

18. Cure of Wounds in Elm-Trees. 19. Preservation

of Frozen Potatoes. 20. Precautions in the Planting

of Potatoes,

GEOGRAPHY,

185-186

21. Notice regarding Lost Greenland. 22. Major Rennel's

Chart of the Atlantic. 23. Intelligence of Captain

Ross, R. N.

STATISTICS.

24. Commerce of Great Britain. 25. Cholera Morbus,

ARTS.

187

187, 188

26. Size for Illuminators, Artists, &c. 27. Manufacture of

Charcoal. 28. Potash obtained commercially from Fel-

spar. 29. Improvements in Printing,

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

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1. Edinburgh Cabinet Library.-Narrative of Discovery and

Adventure in the Polar Regions and Seas. Vol. I.

189

Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa. Vol. II. Pub-

lished by Oliver and Boyd,

2. Wilson's American Ornithology,

192

ib.