On Hie Structure of Normal and Adventitious Bone. By Alfred Smec,
FAIL ........................................................................ page 198
An attempt to establish a new and general Notation, applicable to the doctrine of Life Contingencies. By Peter Hardy, Esq. F.R.S. 198
Observations on Single Vision with two Eyes. By T. Wharton Jones,
Esq. 198
Observations on the Blood—corpuscles of certain species of the Genus Cervus. By George Gulliver, Esq. F.R.S. Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Regiment ofHorse Guards .................................... 199
Meteorological Register kept at Port Arthur, Van Diemen’s Land, du- ring the year 1838. By Deputy-Assistant Commissary—General Lempriere, in south latitudc43° 6’ 9", and east longitudc 147° 51’33" 200
Experimental Researches in Electricity—Sixteenth Series. By Mi- chael Faraday, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. 81c. . . . . .. 200
On the Wet Summer of 1839. By Luke Howmd, Esq. F.R.S. &c.
On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on prepa- rations of Silver and other substances, both metallic and non-me- tallic ; and on some Photographic processes. By Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bmt. K.H. V.P.R.S. &c ..... ............... .. ..
Remarks on the Theory of the Dispersion of Light, as connected wit Polarization. By the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A. F .R.S. and Savi- lian Professor of Geometry, Oxford 210
Further Particulars of the Fall of the Cold Bokkeveld Meteorite. By Thomas Maclear, Esq. F.R.S., in a letter to Sir John F. W. Her- schel, Bart. K.H. V.P.R.S. &c. 210
An Account of the Shooting Stars of 1095 and 1243. By Sir Francis Palgrave, K.I'l. F.R.S. &c.. .. 210 On certain variations of the mean height of the Barometer, mean tem-
perature and depth of Rain, connected with the Lunar Phases, in the cycle of years from 1815 to 1823. By Luke Howard, Esq.
On the theory of the dark bands formed in the solar spectrum from partial interception by transparent plates. By the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A. F.R.S. Savilian Professor of Geometry in the Univer-
sity ofOxford 211
Contributions to Terrestrial Magneti m. By Major Edward Sabine,
Researches in Electricity ~Seventeenth Series. On the source of power in the Voltaic Pile. By Michael Faraday, Esq. D.C.L.
Additional Note to the Eleventh Series of Researches on the Tides.
By the Rev. William Whewell, B.D. F.R.S. 8a: 217
On the Nervous System. By Sir Charles Bell, F.R.S . 218
On the Constitution of the Resin Part IV. By James F. W.
Johnston, Esq. MA. ......... .. 218
A Letter from Sir John Barrow, Bart. V.P., addressed to the President, accompanying a series of Magnetic Observations made on shore, 1‘ and on board Her Majesty’s ships Erebus and Terror, under the di— rection of Captain James Clark Ross, R.N., together with a Series of
