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; OCTOBER 1826... APRIL 1827. TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. EDINBURGH: LONDON. CONTENTS. Page Art. I. Historical Eloge of the late Sir Joseph Banks, Ba- ronet, President of the Royal Society. By Baron II. Remarks and Experiments relating to Hygrometers and Evaporation. By Mr HENRY MEIKLE. Com- III. On Coloured Shadows. By Messrs ZCHOKKE and 82 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 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- VI. On the Afinities of the Empetreæ, a natural Group of Plants. By Mr David Don, Libr. L. S. &c. Com- VII. Establishment of Vegetation at the Surface of the 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, IX. Observations on the Arctic Sea and Ice, and the in- tended Expedition of Captain Parry to the North |
