REGIUS PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OF
THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH;

Fellow of the Royal Society of London; Fellow of the Royal, 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; of the Royal Geological Society of
Cornwall, and of the Cambridge 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 So-
ciety 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; 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 Philadel-
phia; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, &c. &c.

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

LONDON.

July 7, 1944
Scot.

CONTENTS.

Page

ART. I. Historical Eloge of the late Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Ba-

ronet, President of the Royal Society. By Baron

CUVIER,

II. Remarks and Experiments relating to Hygrometers

and Evaporation. By Mr HENRY MEIKLE. Com-

municated by the Author,

III. On Coloured Shadows. By Messrs ZCHOKKE and
TRESCHEL junior,

IV. Notice regarding the Little Andaman Island in the

Bay of Bengal. Communicated by Cornet J. E.

ALEXANDER, H. M. 13th Light Dragoons. With a

Plate,

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V. Some particulars relative to the Tides in the upper

part of the River Thames, and of the obstructions

caused by the present London Bridge. By P. BAR-

LOW, F. R. S. Mem. Imp. Acad. Petrop., &c. Com-
municated by the Author,

VI. On the Affinities of the Empetreæ, a natural Group of

Plants. By Mr DAVID DON, Libr. L. S. &c.

municated by the Author,

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VII. Establishment of Vegetation at the Surface of the

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Globe,

VIII. Observations made during a Visit to Madeira, and a

residence in the Canary Islands. By Baron LEO-

POLD VON BUCH. (Continued from former Volume,

p. 380.),

IX. Observations on the Arctic Sea and Ice, and the in-

tended Expedition of Captain Parry to the North

Pole. By THOMAS Latta, M.D. Communicated

by the Author,

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