REGIUS PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OF Fellow of the Royal Society of London; Fellow of the Royal, Antiquarian, and Wernerian Societies of APRIL...OCTOBER 1826. TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. EDINBURGH : PRINTED FOR ADAM BLACK, NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH; LONDON. 1826. CONTENTS. ART. I. Biographical Memoir of the late HENRY Kühl, M. P. Doctor of Natural History, &c. &c... II. Sketches of our Information as to Rail-Roads. By the Rev. JAMES ADAMSON, Cupar-Fife. (Communicated III. On the Natural History and Economical Uses of the Cod, Capelin, Cuttle-Fish, and Seal, as they occur on the Banks of Newfoundland, and the Coasts of that Island and Labrador. Communicated in a Letter to Professor JAMESON, by W. E. CORMACK, Esq. IV. Description of a New Reflecting Telescope, denomi- nated the Aerial Reflector, By THOMAS DICK, Esq. Author of the Christian Philosopher, &c. Commu- V. On the Combustion of Alcoholic Fluids, Oils, &c. in Lamps, with Observations on the Colour and Consti- VI. Tour to the South of France and the Pyrenees, in 1825. By G. A. WALKER ARNOTT, Esq. A. M. F.L.S. & R.S. E. &c. In a Letter to Professor JAMESON, VII. Notice of a New Zoophyte (Cliona celata, Gr.) from the Frith of Forth. By R. E. GRANT, M.D. F. R.S.E. Formations: 3. On the Changes that appear to have taken place during the different periods of the Earth's formation on the Climate of the Globe, and in the nature and the Physical and Geographical Distribu- tion of its Animals and Plants. By A BOUE', 82 |