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.

1827.

July 7, 1944
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EVON&EXETER
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P. Neill, Printer, Edinburgh.

CONTENTS.

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

ronet, President of the Royal Society. By Baron

CUVIER,

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II. Remarks and Experiments relating to Hygrometers

and Evaporation. By Mr HENRY MEIKLE. Com-

municated by the Author,

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III. On Coloured Shadows. By Messrs ZcHokke and

TRESCHEL junior,

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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. Com-

municated by the Author,

VII. Establishment of Vegetation at the Surface of the

Globe,

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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

Pole. By THOMAS LATTA, M. D. Communicated

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