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CONTENTS.

X. Observations upon the Marine Barometer, made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803. By Matthew Flinders, Esq. Commander of his Majesty's Ship Investigator. In a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. &c. &c. &c. page 239

XI. Account of a Discovery of native Minium. In a Letter from James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K.B. P.R.S. p. 267

XII. Description of a rare Species of Worm Shells, discovered at an Island lying off the North-west Coast of the Island of Sumatra, in the East Indies. By J. Griffiths, Esq. Communicated by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K.B. P.R.S. p. 269

XIII. Observations on the Shell of the Sea Worm found on the Coast of Sumatra, proving it to belong to a Species of Teredo; with an Account of the Anatomy of the Teredo Navalis. By Everard Home, Esq. F.R.S. p. 276

XIV. On the inverted Action of the alburnous Vessels of Trees. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. In a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K.B. P.R.S. p. 292

XV. A new Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem, when the Exponent is a positive or negative Fraction. By the Rev. Abram Robertson, A.M. F.R.S. Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. In a Letter to Davies Giddy, Esq. F.R.S. p. 305