THE EDINBURGH NEW PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SCIENCES AND THE ARTS. CONDUCTED BY ROBERT JAMESON, REGIUS PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, Lecturer on mineralogy, and keeper of Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; of the Antiquarian, Wernerian and Horti- OCTOBER 1831... APRIL 1832. TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ADAM BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH; LONDON. 1832. CONTENTS. ART. I. On certain Newer Deposits in Sicily, and the Pheno- mena accompanying their Elevation. By Dr ALEX- ANDER TURNBULL CHRISTIE, M.W.S., F.G.S., &c. Communicated to the Society by RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, Esq. President of the Geological So- II. On the Proximate Causes of certain Winds and Storms. By Professor E. MITCHELL, University of North III. On the Navigation of the Maranon or Amazons. By Lieutenant H. LISTER MAW, R. N. In a Letter IV. Remarks on Thermal Springs, and their Connexion with Volcanos. By CHARLES DAUBENY, M. D. F. R. S. Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford. Communicated by the Author, V. Analysis of Professor EHRENBERG's Researches on the Infusoria. By MEREDITH GAIRDNER, M.D. Com- municated by the Author. (Continued from p. 225. of preceding Volume). With a Plate, VI. Visit to the Valley of Death in the Island of Java. By A. LOUDON, Esq. In a Letter to Professor VII. Remarks on the Serrature of the Middle Claw, and the Irregular Denticulation of the Beak, in certain Birds. By W. MACGILLIVRAY, A. M. Conservator Page ART. VIII. Description of some new Species of Malesherbia, Kageneckia, Quillaja, and of a new Genus of the Order Salicariæ. By Mr DAVID DON, Librarian to the Linnean Society; Member of the Imperial Academy Naturæ Curiosorum; of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow; of the Royal Addendum, IX. Biography of the late DUGALD CARMICHAEL, Esq. Captain 72d Regiment, Fellow of the Linnean 206 XIV. Some Preliminary Experiments upon the Pod of Casalpinia coriaria, or Dividivi. By Mr ROD- SEY. Communicated by Captain MACADAM, XVI. On the Chains of Mountains and Volcanoes of Central Asia. By Baron A. VON HUMBOLDT. (Concluded from preceding Volume, p. 240.), XVII. Critical Observations on the Ideas of M. ALEX- ANDER BRONGNIART, relating to the Classifica- tion and probable Origin of Tertiary Deposits. |