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 and Wernerian 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 So-
ciety of Calcutta ; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and of the Cambridge Philosophi-
cal Society; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Northern, and Cork Institutions; of the Royal So-
ciety 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 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 Senken-
berg Society of Natural History; 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,
&c. &c.

NEW YORK

APRIL...OCTOBER 1827

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

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

P. Neill, Printer, Edinburgh.

CONTENTS.

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ART. I. Biographical Memoir of MICHEL ADANSON. Read to

the Institute of France by Baron CUVIER,

II. Notes on the Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). In a

Letter addressed to Thomas Stuart Traill, M. D. &c.

By JOHN J. AUDUBON, F. R. S. E. M. W. S. &c.

Communicated by the Author,

III. On the Rein-deer.

1. Its Naturalization in Scotland.

2. Its Food. 3. Rein-deer Milk, and preparations

made from it. 4. Speed of the Rein-deer. 5. Rein-

deer eats the Lemming. 6. On the Furia inferna-

lis,

IV. Account of a simple Apparatus for collecting the

Gases evolved from Liquids submitted to Galvanic

Action. By the Rev. Mr A. ROBERTSON jun. Inver-

keithing. Communicated by the Author,

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V. Account of an Ascent to the Crater of the Great Vol-

cano of Kirauea. By the Rev. CHARLES STEWART,

late Missionary at Hawaii,

VI. Observations and Experiments on the different kinds

of Coal. By M. KARSTEN (Continued from p. 296.

of preceding volume);

VII. On the substance called Fine Linen in the Sacred

Writings. By the Rev. DAVID SCOT, M.D. M.W.S.

&c. Communicated by the Author,

VIII. Account of the Capture of a colossal Orang-Ou-

tang in the Island of Sumatra, and Description of

its Appearances. By Dr CLARK ABEL. (Concluded

from p. 375. of preceding volume),

IX. Description of the Hindoo Bellows, with Remarks on

the occurrence of a similar Bellows in Europe. By

W. A. CADELL, Esq. F. R. S. L. & E., M. W. S. &c.

Communicated by the Author,

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ART. X. Memoir regarding Symington and Bell's pretensions

to be considered the original Inventors of Steam

Navigation; being an Appendix to a Narrative on

the Introduction and Practice of Steam Navigation,

&c. published in the Philosophical Journal for July

1825. By P. MILLER, Esq.

XI. Observations on the Glaciers and Climate of Spitz-

bergen, made during a visit to that Island; with a

Reply to Mr Scoresby's Remarks. By THOMAS A.

Latta, M, D., M. W. S. Communicated by the

Author,

XII. On the Paragrele or Protector from Hail. By JOHN

MURRAY, Esq. F. L. S. M. W. S. &c.

ted by the Author,

87

91

Communica-

103

XIII. Observations on the Structure and Nature of Flus-

By R. E. GRANT, M. D. F. R. S. E. F. L. S.

træ.

M. W. S. formerly Lecturer on Comparative Anato-

my in Edinburgh. Communicated by the Author, 107

XIV. Some Remarks on the Temperature and Climate of

Shetland. By WILLIAM SCOTT, A. M. of the Royal

Military College at Sandhurst. Communicated by

XV. On the History and Constitution of Benefit or Friend-

ly Societies. By Mr W. FRASER, Edinburgh,

1. Origin and Number of Friendly Societies in Britain, with

their probable annual expenditure,

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kinds of Food:

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XVII. On an excellent.made of Coating small articles of Me-

tal with Tin. BY THOMAS GILL, Esq.

XVIII. On poishing Ivory, Bone, Horn, and Tortoise-shell.

By Dr THOMAS P. JONES,

XIX. Abstracts and Remarks relative to Captain Sabine's

Experiments on the Dip and Intensity of the Mag-

netic Needle, in different parts of the Northern He-

-misphere. By PETER BARLOW, F. R. S. Mem. Imp.

Ac. Petrop. Communicated by the Author,

XX. Refutation of Mr Ivory's New Law of the Heat ex-

tricated from Air by Condensation. By Mr HENRY

MEIKLE. Communicated by the Author,

ib.

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