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 Linnean and Geological Societies of London; Honorary Member
of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and of the Cam-
bridge Philosophical Society; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Northern, and Cork Institutions;
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 Petersburgh; of the Natural History Society of Wetterau; of the Mi-
neralogical Society of Jena; of the Royal Mineralogical Society of Dresden; of the Natural His-
tory 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 Aca-
demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York; of
the Natural History Society of Montreal, &c. &c.

APRIL...OCTOBER 1829.

TO BE CONtinued quARTERLY.

EDINBURGH:

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

LONDON.

Aug. 11, 1939
Scot.

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P. Neill, Printer, Edinburgh.

CONTENTS.

ART. I. On the State of Natural History, and the progress

which it has made since the return of the Maritime

Peace. By Baron CUVIER,

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II. On the Excavation of Valleys, as illustrated by the

Volcanic Rocks of Central France. By CHARLES

LYELL, Esq. F.R.S. Vice-President of the Geologi-

cal Society of London, &c. and RODERICK IMPEY

MURCHISON, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary to the Geologi-

cal Society of London, &c. With Three Plates.
(Communicated by the Authors),

III. Sketches of the Meteorology, Geology, Agriculture,

Botany, and Zoology of the Southern Mahratta

Country. By ALEXANDER TURNBULL CHRISTIE,
M. D. Member of the Wernerian Society. (Conti-
nued from p. 120. of preceding Volume),

IV. On Thirst in Snow-covered Countries. By Mr J. F.

SLOANE. Communicated by the Author,

V. On Clinkstone or Phonolite. By C. G. GMelin,

VI. 1. Observations concerning Fossil Organic Remains.

By J. C. DOORNIK, M. D. &c. 2. Werner's Views

of the Natural History of Fossil Organic Remains.

3. Werner's Advice to Students of Geology,

VII. Observations on the Characters and Affinities of Dar-

winia, Brunsfelsia, Browallia, Argylia, Eccremocar-

pus, and of a Plant improperly referred to the latter

genus. By Mr DAVID DON, Librarian of the Lin-

nean Society, Member of the Imperial Academy

Naturæ Curiosorum, of the Royal Botanical Society

of Ratisbon, and of the Wernerian Society of Edin-

burgh, &c. Communicated by the Author,

VIII. A Notice of the Beaver, from Observations made on

Two Living Specimens at present in this Country,