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- APRIL...OCTOBER 1832. TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ADAM BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH; LONDON. 1022 CONTENTS. Page IV. Analysis of the Stony Pericarp of the Lithospermum V. On the Vitality of Toads enclosed in Stone and Wood. By the Reverend W. BUCKLAND, F. R. S., F. L. S., F. G. S., and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Oxford. Communicated by VI, On the Chemical Constitution of Harmotome or Cross- - VII. On the History of the Natural Sciences, in reference to the Scientific Knowledge of the Egyptians of the source from whence Moses derived his Cosmogony, and the general agreement of that Cosmogony with IX. Analysis of the Labradorite Felspar found in the Trap- 86 ART. X. Physiological Investigations arising from the Mecha- nical Effects of Atmospherical Pressure on the Animal Frame. By JOHN DALTON, F. R. S. XI. On the Uniform Permeability of all known Substances to the Magnetic Influence, and the Application of the fact in Engineering and Mining, for the Determination of the Thickness of Solid Sub- stances not otherwise Measurable. By the Rev. WILLIAM SCORESBY, F. R.S. L. & Ed., Correspon- XII. A Register of the date of various Natural Appear- ances, kept at Treveroux Farm, in the Parish of Limpsfield in Surrey. By HENRY Cox, Esq. Communicated by W. JACOB, Esq. F. R. S. XIII. Earliest Knowledge of Gold and Silver.-Hesiod.- Scandinavian Museum.-The Patriarchs.-The Book of Job.-Accumulation of Wealth with the XIV. On the Origin and Composition of Basalt, XV. On the Cholera Animalcule, XVII. Account of the Introduction of the Wood-Grouse or Capercailzie (Tetrao Urogallus) to the Forest of XVIII. Catrine Works Meteorological Register for 1881, XIX. Description of several New or Rare Plants which have lately flowered in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic XX. Celestial Phenomena from July 1. to October 1. 1832, calculated for the Meridian of Edinburgh, Mean Time. By Mr GEORGE INNES, Astronomical Cal- culator, Aberdeen, 1 |