4. That the large bone resembling the radial bone of the hippopotamus, shews that Australia formerly possessed animals much larger than any of the present existing species, equalling or even exceeding in magnitude the hippopotamus: a fact of high importance, when we recollect that the quadruped population of New Holland is at present but meagre, the largest species being the kangaroo. 5. That the bone caves and bone-breccia contain, along with animals at present known, others that appear to be extinct, as is the case with the caves and breccia of Europe. A 6. That the same agent or agents that brought together the remains of animals met with in bone-caves and bone-breccia in Europe, operated on New Holland. 7. Lastly, that the animals in the Australian caves and breccia were destroyed and became fossil, if not at the same precise time as the European, during a similar series of geological changes. INDEX. Aerial shadows on Cairngorum described, 165 Anatomy, comparative history of, 146, 291 Animalcules, on the existence of, in snow, 180 Ankle or Hock-joint of the horse, a peculiarity of, described, 59 Arts, notices of, 189 Atmospheres, nitrous, of Tirhoot, 177 Audubon, his " Birds of America" and " Ornithological Biography" Auvergne, on the diluvial theory and valleys of, 201 Baffin's Bay, disasters in, described, 136 Barometrical series of observations, by Galbraith, 40 Biographical memoir of M. Duhamel by Cuvier, 1 Bone Caves, discovery of, in Wellington Valley in New Holland, Botany, notices of, 185, 387 Boué, Ami, his answer to Murchison and Sedgwick, in regard to Brewsterite, analysis of, by Arthur Connell, 35 Caves in New Holland, account of, 364 Celestial phenomena from January 1. to April 1. 1831, 172;— Chalk-flints in Banffshire, account of, 146 Cholera Morbus, 188 Christie, Dr, on Indian hail-storms, 308 James, on the commerce of Great Britain, 187 James, on the chalk-flints of Banffshire, 146 Clift, Mr, on the fossil bones found in New Holland, 394 Comparative History of Anatomy, 146, 291 Connell, Arthur, on Brewsterite, 35; his analysis of the mineral Craigie, Dr David, history of comparative anatomy, 146, 291 Cuvier, Baron, his biography of M. Duhamel, 1; his observations Daubeny, C., M.D., Professor in Oxford, on the diluvial theory Diluvial theory, examined by Dr Daubeny, 201 Don, David, on the characters and affinities of certain genera be- Duhamel, M., his biography, by Cuvier, 1 Erica mediterranea found in Ireland, 185 Ehrenberg, C. G., on the blood-red colour of water, 122, 341; on infusoria, 183 Flying of man and birds, 184 Fossil-shells in the snowy mountains of Thibet, 179 Fossil-trees of Van Dieman's Land, notice of, 361 Fraser, William, on the printing press, 189, 357 Frog and insect plague of Mullye, 181 Galbraith, series of barometrical observations, 40 Geography, notice of, 187, 388 Geology, notices in, 178, 381 Glaciers, account of, 332 Graham, Dr, on new and rare plants in the Edinburgh Royal Bo- Grant, Macpherson, jun., on aërial shadows from the Cairngorum Graves, on the hock-joint of the horse, and vertebræ of the whale, 59 Hail storms in India, account of, 308 Heifer, account of one which yielded milk, 181 Horse, account of the hock-joint of, 59 Hugi, Professor, on glaciers, 332 Hybrid azaleas, 185 Infusoria, observations on, 183 Innes, Mr George, celestial phenomena, 172 Insect plague, 182 Jameson, Professor, on the fossil bones found in New Holland, 393 Lacustrine basins of Alhama described, 65 Lamp, platina, new kind described, 359 Lang, Dr, on the bones found in caves in New Holland, 364 Luxury of the Romans, account of, 49 Maxwell, Clerk, his plan for combining machinery with the manual Merryweather, George, account of a new platina lamp, 359 Murchison and Sedgwick, Boué's Answer to their observations on Mineralogy, notices in, 385 New Holland, account of the Bone Caves lately discovered there, Nicol, William, on the fossil trees of Van Dieman's Land, 361 Olmsted, Professor, his theory of hail storms examined by Dr T. Patents granted in England from 27th February to 14th Septem- granted in Scotland from 16th September to 30th Novem- Platina lamp, a new one described, 359 Polar lights in Shetland, 177 Potatoes, frozen, preservation of, 186 planting of, 186 Potash obtained commercially from felspar, 189 Publications, new, the following noticed: 1. Edinburgh Cabinet Library; 2. Wilson's American Ornithology; 3. Witham on Red snow, red dew,-red water,-described by Ehrenberg, 122 341 Rennel, Major, his chart of the Atlantic, 187 Ross, Captain, latest intelligence of, 187 Romans, Luxury of, Sang, Edward, on the adaptation of the fly-wheel and pulley of the Silvertop, Colonel, on the lacustrine basins of Baza, Alhama, in Snow, red, described by Ehrenberg, 122 on the existence of animalcules in, 180 Statistics, notices in, 187 Thomson, Allen, observations on the development of the vascular Tirhoot, nitrous atmospheres of, 177 Trees, preservation of, from hares, 186 cure of wounds in, 186 Turning-lathe, observations on, 239 Valleys, on the formation of, in Auvergne, by Dr Daubeny, 201 Water-spouts described, 176 Wernerian Society, proceedings of, 175, 377 Zoology, notices in, 180, 386 NEILL & CO. PRINTERS, |