EDINBURGH NEW

2441

PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL,

EXHIBITING A VIEW OF THE

PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS

IN THE

SCIENCES AND THE ARTS.

CONDUCTED BY

ROBERT JAMESON,

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OF
THE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy; of the
Royal Society of Sciences of Denmark; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin; of the Royal Academy of
Naples; of the Geological Society of France; Honorary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ; Fellow of
the Royal Linnean, and of the Geological Societies of London; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and
of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; of the Antiquarian, Wernerian Natural History, Royal Medical, Royal
Physical, and Horticultural Societies of Edinburgh; of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland; of
the Antiquarian and Literary Society of Perth; of the Statistical Society of Glasgow; of the Royal Dublin
Society; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern, and Cork Institutions; of the Natural History So-
ciety of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle; of the Imperial Pharmaceutical Society of Petersburgh; of
"the Natural History Society of Wetterau; of the Mineralogical Society of Jena; of the Royal Mineralogical So-
ciety 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; of the Society of Natural Sciences
and Medicine of Heidelberg; 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
Philadelphia; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York; of the Natural History Society of Montreal; of
the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts; of the Geological
Society of Pennsylvania; of the Boston Society of Natural History of the United States; of the South African
Institution of the Cape of Good Hope; Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of France, &c. &c. &c.

APRIL....OCTOBER 1839.

VOL. XXVII.

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ART. I. Historical Eloge of Antoine-Laurent Jussieu.

M. FLOURENS, Perpetual Secretary of the Aca-

demy of Sciences of France,

II. On the comparative merits of the Reflecting Micro-

scope of Sir David Brewster, and the Catadiop-

tric Engiscope of Professor Amici of Modena;

with an account of a new Reflecting Telescope

for Terrestrial Objects. By CHARLES R. Go-

RING, M.D. Communicated by the Author,

III. On the Expansive Action of Steam in some of the

Pumping Engines on the Cornish Mines. By

WILLIAM JORY HENWOOD, F.G.S., Secretary of

the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, H.M.

Assay-Master of Tin in the Duchy of Cornwall,

IV. On Water-Spouts. By HANS CHRISTIAN ERSTED,

Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Univer-

sity of Copenhagen,

General nature of Water Spouts,

Form of the Water-Spout,

Dimensions of Water-Spouts,

Colour and Transparency of Water-Spouts,

Duration and Movements of Water-Spouts,

Power of Water-Spouts,

Sound and Smell of Water-Spouts,

Formation and Phenomena of Water-Spouts,

On the actual nature of a Water-Spout,

V. Experiments and Observations on the Temperature

of Artesian Springs or Wells, in Mid-Lothian,

Stirlingshire, and Clackmannanshire.

BERT PATERSON, M.D., M.W.S.

by the Author,

By Ro-

Communicated

VI. Memoir on the Classification of Soils. By M. DE

1. On the Principles of the Classification of Soils,

2. The Characters of Soils in relation to Agriculture,

3. Relative value of Characters,

4. Primary Classification of Soils after their appropria-

tion to particular cultures,

VII. On the Geographical Distribution of Insects,