LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS, From September 8 to December 8, 1835. Agnes de Mansfeldt, by T. C. Grattan, 3 vol. post 8vo., 31s. 6d. Baxter's Agricultural and Horticultural Annual, 1836, 8vo., 12s. bound. Bulwer's (E. L.) Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes, vol. post 8vo., 31s. 6d. Carey's (H. C.) Essay on the Rate of Wages, post 8vo., 8s. Channing's (Dr.) Works, 2 vol. fcap., 12s. Cloquet's (Dr.) Private Life of Lafayette, 8vo., 12s. Cock's (Edw.) Students' Guide for Dissecting, fcap., 7s. Cocks' Illustrations of Cooper's Surgical Dictionary, 2 vol. 8vo., 5l. 9s. 6d. Cole's (W.) Select Views in Greece, folio, 84s. Collins' (Rt.) Observations on Midwifery, 8vo., 12s. 6d. Comet (The), Illustrated and Explained, by J. Seares, 12mo., 4s. Conwell on the Liver, and on Hepatic Disease in India, 8vo., 14s. Cooper's (Sir A.) Principles and Practice of Surgery, 8vo., 18s.—col. 28s. Family Library, Vol. LIV., (Washington's Life, Vol. II.), 18mo., 5s. Friendship's Offering, for 1836, 18mo., 12s. bound. Gallery of Modern British Artists, 4to., 16s. Grahame's (Jas.) History of the U. S. of North America, 4 vol. 8vo., 27. 10s. Hampden's (R. D.) Lectures on Moral Philosophy, 8vo., 8s. Hoblyn's (R. D.) Dictionary of Medical Terms, 12mo., 9s. Hogg's (Dr. Edw.) Visit to Alexandria, &c., 2 vol. post 8vo., 21s. Heath's Picturesque Annual, for 1836, 8vo., 21s.-I.p. 50s. History of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries, &c., of Great Britain, 8vo., 12s. Introduction to the Study of Birds, 12mo., 10s. Irving's (W.) Legends of the Conquest of Spain, post 8vo., 9s. 6d. Vol. XI. (Deer, Camels, &c.) 12mo., 6s. Jenyns' (L.) Manual of British Vertebrate Animals, 8vo., 13s. Lardner's Cyclopædia, Vol. 71, (Literary and Scientific Men, vol. 2) 12mo. 6s. 12mo., 6s. Vol. 73, (Rome, vol. 2) 6s. Latrobe's (C. J.) Rambler in America, 2 vol. sm. 8vo., 16s. Lebaudy's Anatomy of the Regions interested in Surgical Operations, royal 4to., 248. Lee (Edwin) on the Medical Practice of France, Italy, &c., 8vo., 8s. Lieber's (F.) Reminiscences of G. B. Niebuhr, post 8vo., 9s. 6d. Lindley's (John) Key to Structural, &c. Botany, 8vo., 4s. 6d. Loseley Manuscripts, edited by A. J. Kempe, 8vo., 21s. Mackintosh's (Sir J.) Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature, &c., 12mo., 3s. Macrobin's (Dr. J.) Introduction to the Study of Practical Medicine, 8vo., 5s. Middlemore's (Rd.) Treatise on Diseases of the Eye, &c., 2 vol. 8vo., 1l. 15s. Mudie's The Earth, The Heavens, The Air, royal 18mo. 5s. each. Pearson (Dr. R.) on Action of the Broom-seed in Dropsy, 8vo., 2s. 6d. Robinson's (H. B.) Memoirs of Lieut. Gen. Sir Thos. Picton, 2 vol. 8vo. 28s. Schlegel's (F. Von) Philosophy of History, translated by Robertson, 2 vol. 8vo., 28s. Smith's (C. J.) Historical and Literary Curiosities, pt. 1, 4to., 7s. 6d. Student's Cabinet Library; or, Useful Tracts, Vol. I., 12mo., 5s. Thomson's (Dr. T.) Outlines of Mineralogy, Geology, &c., 2 vols. 8vo., 32s. Todd's (Rev. J.) Student's Manual, 12mo., 6s. Transactions of the Geological Society, Vol. IV., Pt. I., 8vo., 14s. Med. and Chir. Society of London, Vol. XIX., 8vo. 158. Trollope's (Rev. W.) Analecta Theologica, Vol. II., 8vo., 17s. Venables' Interlinear Translation of Gregory's Conspectus, 12mo., 4s. 6d. Vow of the Peacock, and other Poems, by L. E. L., feap., 10s. 6d. Wardrop (Dr. J.) on Blood-letting, post 8vo., 4s. Wilson's (Jas.) Treatise on Insects, 4to., 15s. Yate's (Rev. Wm.) Account of New Zealand, post 8vo., 10s. 6d. METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. ON THE AURORA BOREALIS. On the evening of the 17th of November, 1835, there was a very brilliant aurora; a broad sheet of white light, filling the northern part of the heavens, from West to North-east, and extending from 35 to 40 degrees towards the zenith. Occasionally dark clouds traversed this luminous sheet, but without appearing at all to influence, or to be influenced by, the belts or bands of light which every now and then extended, in a vertical direction, across it. These bands, or streamers, sometimes appeared in considerable numbers,and at one period in particular, there were two considerable ones close together of a very remarkable brick-dust red colour; a strong light was thrown upon all objects around. These phenomena were observed from 9 to 11 p. m., and were still to be seen at 1 a. m. The day had been mild and pleasant,light Westerly breezes, with large intervals of sun; the maximum of the thermometer, 50; Barometer, 29.310, slowly falling. On the 18th, the wind was high and Westerly, with clouds and some sun in the morning, and occasional showers in the afternoon; the barometer standing, at 9 a. m., 29.200, the thermometer reaching 520. Towards evening the wind drew round to W. N. W. and N. W., the clouds cleared off, and at 11 p. m. the barometer had risen to 29.300. Át 8 o'clock in the evening, the atmosphere was quite free from cloud, and from this period until halfpast 10, there was the most brilliant display of Aurora I have ever witnessed, far surpassing that of the preceding evening. A beautiful and very lumin ous arch stretched from N. N. E. to West, at about 35 degrees from the ho rizon, sometimes quite complete, at others broken into detached luminous masses. This arch, at 9 p. m., passed through Lyro, its upper edge just touching the two principal stars in Ursa Minor, and thence extending through the Pointers in Ursa Major; long luminous streamers were shooting out from it at all points,-sometimes more brilliant in the West, at others in the North, and then in the N. E., varying every moment. At one period ap. pearing, at various points between the concavity of the arch and the horizon, like the tail of an immense comet, at others darting out, in great numbers, from the convexity towards the zenith. Added to all these interesting appearances, were continual and extremely rapid flashes or undulations of light, as if of broad, broken, horizontal bands of lambient flame-which swept, with the rapidity of lightning, from all the northern half of the hori zon, to a point almost exactly over-head. These coruscations, or flashes, very frequently left permanent streaks of light exactly resembling strongly illuminated bands of delicate cirri. These luminous undulations, or flashesalways converging to a particular spot-formed, at times, a most beautiful wreathed crown, which would remain permanent over Gamma Andromeda. These luminous flashes stretched, at one period, far into the southern region of the heavens. INDEX. Bishop Burnett's History of his own 113 Birds (The) of Britain, systemati- Caterpillars, An Outline of British, Chemistry, Observations on, 248 Comets, On the Influence of, 218 Critical Notices of New Publications: |