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Edinburgh

JOURNAL OF SCIENCE,

EXHIBITING

A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY

IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, BOTANY,
ZOOLOGY, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, PRACTICAL MECHANICS, GEOGRAPHY,
NAVIGATION, STATISTICS, ANTIQUITIES, AND THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS.

CONDUCTED BY

DAVID BREWSTER, LL.D.

F.R.S. LOND. SEC. R.S. EDIN. F.S. S. A. M.R.I.A.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL
PRUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY

OF SCIENCES; OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCIENCES OF DENMARK;

OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF GOTTINGEN, &c. &c.

VOL. IX.

APRIL-OCTOBER.

JOHN THOMSON, EDINBURGH:

AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

M.DCCC.XXVIII.

CONTENTS

OF THE

EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE.

No. XVII.

ART. I. Account of the Structure, Manners, and Habits of an Orang-Outang

from Borneo, in the possession of George Swinton, Esq. Calcutta. By

J. GRANT, Esq. Assistant-surgeon Bengal Establishment. In a Let-

ter to Dr BREWSTER,

II. Account of a New Reflecting Telescope. By the Right Honourable

LORD OXMANTOWN, M. P. &c. Communicated by the Author,

III. Observations on the Styles of Building employed in Ancient Italy,

and the Materials used in the City of Rome. Communicated by a

Correspondent,

IV. On Botryogene, the native Red Iron-Vitriol of Fahlun. By WIL-

LIAM HAIDINGER, Esq. F. R. S. Ed. Communicated by the Au-

thor,

V. Account of the Great Cavern of Boobon in the Cossyah Mountains.

By M. DUVAUCEL,

VI. Additional Observations on the Cavern of Boobon, with a PLAN. By

DAVID SCOTT, Esq. Communicated by the Author,

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VII. On the Chalk Formation of Denmark. By Dr G. FORCHHAMMER.

Communicated by the Author,

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VIII. An account of the services which the little bird called Trochilos ren-

ders to the Crocodile. By M. GEOFFROY ST-HILAIRE,

IX. On the Diurnal Variation of the Barometer at Paris. By M. Bou-

VARD, Director of the Royal Observatory of Paris, &c.

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X. On the Influence of Wind on the Height of the Barometer. By M.

A. BOUVARD, Director of the Royal Observatory of Paris, &c.

XI. Report on Double Stars from a Review of the Starry Heavens made

with the Great Achromatic Telescope of Fraunhofer, addressed to

PRINCE LIEVEN, Curator of the University of Dorpat. By F, G.

STRUVE, Director of the Observatory,

XII. Notice of the Third Series of Observations with a twenty-feet Reflect-

ing Telescope, containing a Catalogue of 384 new Double and Multiple

Stars, completing a first thousand of those Objects detected in sweeps

with that Instrument. By J. F. W. HERSCHEL, Esq. F. R. S. and

President of the Astronomical Society,

XIII. Description of Erinite, a new Mineral Species. By WILLIAM Haid-

INGER, Esq. F. R. S. E. &c. Communicated by the Author,