EDINBURGH NEW

40

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
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 Royal Linnean and Royal Geological Societies of London; Ho-
norary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall,
and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern,
and Cork Institutions; of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and New-
castle; of the Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin;
of the Royal Academy of Naples; of the Imperial Natural History Society of Moscow; of the
Imperial Pharmaceutical Society of St Petersburgh; of the Natural History Society of Wetterau;
of the Mineralogical Society of Jena; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of Dresden; of the
Natural History 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 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New
York; of the Natural History Society of Montreal; of the Geological Society of France; of the
South African Institution of the Cape of Good Hope; of the Franklin Institution of the State of
Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, &c. &c.

OCTOBER 1831...APRIL 1832.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

EDINBURGH:

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

LONDON.

1832.

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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-

ciety, and read Nov. 2. 1831,

II. On the Proximate Causes of certain Winds and Storms.

By Professor E. MITCHELL, University of North

Carolina. (Continued from p. 296. of preceding

Volume),

III. On the Navigation of the Maranon or Amazons. By

Lieutenant H. LISTER MAW, R. N. In a Letter

to Professor JAMESON,

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

JAMESON,

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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

of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons,

Edinburgh, &c. Communicated by the Author, 105