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 1832...APRIL 1833.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

EDINBURGH:

ADAM & CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH;

AND LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN,

LONDON.

1833.

PRINTED BY NEILL & COMPANY,

OLD FISHMARKET.

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CONTENTS.

Page

I. On the Physical Structure of the Site of Rome, and

the adjoining Country. Communicated by the

Author,

II. Observations on the Deviation of the Compass; with

Examples of its fatal influence in some melancholy

and dreadful shipwrecks. By the Rev. WILLIAM

SCORESBY, F. R. S. &c. Communicated by the

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Author,

III. Memoir on a Cave at Cefn, in Denbigshire, visited by

the Rev. EDWARD STANLEY, F. G. S., F. L. S., &c.

With a Plate. Read before the Geological Society

of London, 30th May 1832. And communicated

by the Author, with the permission of the Council,

IV. On the Silicification of Organic Bodies. With a Plate.

By Baron LEOPOLD VON BUCH, ·

V. A Series of Experiments on the Quantity of Food ta-

ken by a Person in Health, compared with the

Quantity of the different Secretions during the same

period; with Chemical Remarks on the several ar-

ticles. By JOHN DALTON, F. R. S.

VI. Barometric Measurement of the Height of Cheviot.

By Lieutenant-Gen. Sir THOMAS MAKDOUGALL

BRISBANE, K. C. B., President of the Royal So-

ciety of Edinburgh, LL. D. &c., and Mr WILLIAM

GALBRAITH, Oxon., A. M. Communicated by the

Authors,

VII. Outline of the Geology of the Bhurtpore District. By

JAMES HARDIE, Esq. Bengal Medical Establish-

ment. (Concluded from p. 336 of preceding vol.)

VIII. On the Frontal Sinus. By THOMAS STONE, M. D.

Communicated by the Author.

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IX. Observations on the Ignis Fatuus, or Will-with-the-

Wisp, Falling Stars, and Thunder Storms. By L.

BLESSON, Major of Engineers, Berlin,

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