45595 July 7, 1944

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PRINTED BY NEILL AND COMPANY, OLD FISHMARKET.

CONTENTS.

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1. An Account of some Experiments on certain Sea-Weeds

of an Edible kind. By JOHN DAVY, M.D., F.R.SS.

Lond. & Ed., &c.,

2. Exposition of the Mechanical Inventions of Dr Robert

Hooke. By ALEXANDER BRYSON, F.S.A. Scot.,

3. On the Rare Lichens of Ben Lawers. By HUGH MAC-

MILLAN, F.B.S.E.,

4. Displacement and Extinction among the Primeval Races

of Man. By DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., Professor of

History and English Literature, University College,

Toronto,

5. An Experimental Inquiry, undertaken with the view of

ascertaining whether any signs of Current Electricity

are manifested in Plants during Vegetation. By H.

F. BAXTER, Esq.,

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49

6. On the Occurrence of Scalariform Tissue in the Devonian

Strata of the South of Ireland. By ROBERT HARK-

NESS, F.R.SS. L. & E., F.G.S., Professor of Geology,

Queen's College, Cork. (Plate I.),

64

7. Geology of the Southern Concan. By Lieut. A. AYTOUN,

Bombay Artillery. (Plate II.),

67

8. On the Reproduction of Cydippe pomiformis. By T.

STRETHILL WRIGHT, M.D.,

9. On two new Actinias. By T. STRETHILL WRIGHT, M.D.

(Plate III.),

10. On the Double Salts of Cadmium and the Organic Bases.

By J. GALLETLY, Assistant to Dr ANDERSON, Glas-

gow University,

11. Notice of the Systematic Position and Manners of Bala-

niceps rex, Gould. By M. JULES VERREAUX,

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101

12. Notice of the late JAMES WILSON, Esq. of Woodville,

106

REVIEWS :-

1. The Science of Beauty as developed in Nature and ap-

plied to Art. By D. R. HAY, Esq., F.R.S.E.,

121

2. Neue Lehre von den Proportionen des Menschlichen

Körpers. Von Professor Dr A. ZEISING,

121

3. Geological Map of Europe. By Sir RODERICK I. MUR-

CHISON and JAMES NICOL,

137

4. Sermons in Stones. By DOMINICK M'COUSLAND,

142

5. Pictures of Nature. By EDWIN LEES, F.L.S.,

143

6. An Attempt to Classify the Flowering Plants and Ferns

of Great Britain, according to their Geognostic Rela-

tions. By JOHN GILBERT BAKER,

143

1. Conclusions drawn regarding the Composition of Eggs.

2. Birds forming Guano. 3. Edible Nests of Swal-

lows. 4. Scyllarus arctus,

177-178

GEOLOGY.

5. Examination of some Deep Soundings from the Atlantic

Ocean. 6. Geological Report upon the Gold District

in the neighbourhood of Smithfield. 7. On the Pro-

bable Depths of the Cretaceous Ocean. 8. On the

Grooving and Polishing of Hard Rocks and Minerals

by Dry Sand. 9. Extent of the Gold Fields of Cali-

fornia, &c. 10. General Statistics of Gold. 11. Rep-

tilian Remains found in the Old Red Sandstone of

Morayshire,

179-190

CHEMISTRY.

12. On the equivalent of Antimony. 13. On Silicon. 14.

On the Detection of Strychnine,

191

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15. Vegetable Ivory Plant.

BOTANY.

16. Yerva de Paraguay, or

Paraguay Tea. 17. Textile Plants.

18. Fungus

imbedded in Fens of Cambridgeshire. 19. New

Method of Disintegrating Masses of Fossil Diatoma-

сех,

192-196.

MINERALOGY.

20. Voigtite, a new Mineral from the Ehrenberg, near Il-

menan. 21. Tantalite containing Zirconia from Li-

moges. 22. Carnallite, a new Mineral. 23. Com-

position of some Varieties of Arsenical Pyrites and

Arsenical Iron. 24. Notice regarding the Mineral
called Tyrite. 25. Compact Boracite of Stass-

furt,

196-198

METEOROLOGY.

26. On the States and Prospects of the Scottish Meteorolo-

gical Association,

MISCELLANEOUS.

199

27. Notice of the Rock-Basons at Deo (Devi) Dhoora, near

Almorah in Upper India, 28. Egg Albumen in

Calico Printing. 29. Hints in regard to Dredging

Observations,

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