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EDINBURGH NEW

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 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,

GREEN,::

LONDON.

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ART. I. Biographical Memoir of M. PHILIPPE PINEL. By Ba-

II. On the Ergot in Maize, and its Effects on Man and

Animals. By M. ROULIN,

III. On Hibernation, and the Action of Cold upon Ani-

IV. General Observations on Univalves. By CHARLES

COLLIER, Esq. Staff-Surgeon at Ceylon. Communi-

cated by Sir JAMES MACGRIGOR, Director-General

of the Army Medical Board, F. R. S., &c. &c.

V. An Account of the Inundation of a Coal-work at Beau-

jonc, near Leige, belonging to Messrs Colson and

Company, and of the remarkable escape of a num-

ber of the Miners,

VI. Sir FREDERICK MOHS, Professor of Mineralogy in Vi-

VII. Extraordinary Case of Atmospheric Refraction. By

JOHN CRUICKSHANK, Esq. Professor of Mathematics

in the Marischal College, Aberdeen. (Communi-

cated by the Author),

VIII. Analysis of Galena, from Castleland Hill, near Inver-

keithing. By Mr A. ROBERTSON junior, Inver-

keithing, (Communicated by the Author),

IX. Notice of a large Greenstone Boulder in the Pentland

Hills. By JAMES D. FORBES, Esq. (Communicated

by the Author),

X. Notice of Earthquakes on the Mississippi. By Mr

XI. On the Circumstances which appear to have accom-

panied the Deposition of the Tertiary Formations

In a Letter addressed to M. ADOLPHE BRONGNIART.

by M. MARCEL de Serres,

XII. On Pasturages, their importance and their

the different Countries of Europe,

ART. XIII. Biography of M. Bosc. By Baron CUVIER,

XIV. On the Land Crabs of Jamaica. By ALEXANDER

XV. On the Red Pigment called Carucru or Chica. By

JOHN HANCOCK, M. D. (Communicated by the

XVI: Report on the Impression made on the Ground by

the Foot of the Sow. (Communicated by Messrs

ROBERT SPITTAL and ROBERT STEVENSON junior), 285

XVII. On the Tertiary Fresh-water Formations of Aix, in

Provence, including the Coal-field of Fuveau. By

RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, Esq. and CHARLES

LYELL, Esq. junior, Secretaries to the Geological

Society; with a Description of Fossil Insects,

Shells and Plants, contained therein, by JOHN

CURTIS, F. L. S., J. De C. SOWERBY, F. L. S., and

J. LINDLEY, Esq. Professor of Botany in the Lon-

don University. (Communicated by the Au-

XVIII. Inquiries respecting the Relative Age of Moun-

ana. By JOHN HANCOCK, M. D.

ed by the Author),

XIX. Observations on the Caymans or Alligators of Gui-

XX. Researches in regard to the Ancient History of our

Domestic Animals, and our Common Plants. By

M. DUREAU de la Malle,

XXI. Observations connected with the Migration of the

Herring and Mackerel, as noticed in the British

Channel. By Major W. D. MORRISON. (Com-

municated by the Author),

XXII. On the Naturalization of the Cashmeer Shawl-

Goat in England. By C. T. TOWER, Esq. of

Weald Hall, Essex,

XXIII. On the German Polish for Wood,

XXIV. Inquiries respecting certain Changes observed to

have taken place in Domestic Animals, transport-

ed from the Old to the New Continent. By M.

XXV. On the Action of the Spinal Marrow in Respira-

tion. By M. FLOURENS,

XXVI. On the Vision of the Mole.

ART. XXVII. Colours which different Substances communicate

to the Flame of the Blowpipe. By M. BUZEN-

XXVIII. Description of several New or Rare Plants which

have flowered in the neighbourhood of Edin-

burgh, and chiefly in the Royal Botanic Gar-

den, during the last three months,

XXIX. Celestial Phenomena from October 1. 1829 to

January 1. 1830, calculated for the Meridian of

Edinburgh, Mean Time.

INNES, Aberdeen,

XXX. SCIENTIFIC Intelligence.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

1. Influence of Electricity in the Formation of certain Inorga-

nic Bodies. 2. Metallic Electricity. 3. Influence of Me-

teorological Phenomena on Dry Piles,

4. Remarkable Coldness of the late Spring. 5. Changes of

Climate at Sheraz. 6. Effects of the Aurora Borealis on

the Magnetic Needle. 7. A Storm in the Mediterranean,

accompanied with Castor and Pollux Lights,

8. Thorine, a new Earth,

9. Notice respecting the presence of Websterite in the Plas-

tic Clay of Auteuil, near Paris; by M. BRONGNIART.

Talc and Mica. 11. Native Sulphuric Acid. 12. Disco-

very of Iodine in an Ore of Zinc. 13. Inquiries into the

Structure of Bodies which Crystallize regularly.

Glassy Felspar, now called Ryakolite,

15. Discovery of Iodine and Bromine in certain Salt-springs

and Mineral-waters in England. 16. Examination of a

Limestone Deposite, by M. VAUQUELIN. 17. Bones of

Palæotheria discovered in a bed of the coarse Limestone

Formation, near Paris. 18. Caves containing Human

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