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REGIUS PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, LECTURER ON MINERALOGY, AND KEEPER OFTHE MUSEUM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH;
Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy; of theRoyal Society of Sciences of Denmark; of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin; of the Royal Academy ofNaples; of the Geological Society of France; Honorary Member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta; Fellow ofthe Royal Linnean, and of the Geological Societies of London; of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, andof the Cambridge Philosophical Society; of the Antiquarian, Wernerian Natural History, Royal Medical, RoyalPhysical, and Horticultural Societies of Edinburgh; of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland; ofthe Antiquarian and Literary Society of Perth; of the Statistical Society of Glasgow; of the Royal DublinSociety; of the York, Bristol, Cambrian, Whitby, Northern, and Cork Institutions; of the Natural History Societyof Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle; of the Imperial Pharmaceutical Society of Petersburgh; ofthe Natural History Society of Wetterau; of the Mineralogical Society of Jena; of the Royal Mineralogical Societyof Dresden; of the Natural History Society of Paris; of the Philomathic Society of Paris; of the NaturalHistory Society of Calvados; of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History; of the Society of Natural Sciencesand Medicine of Heidelberg; Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York; ofthe New York Historical Society; of the American Antiquarian Society; of the Academy of Natural Sciences ofPhiladelphia; of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York; of the Natural History Society of Montreal; ofthe Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanical Arts; of the GeologicalSociety of Pennsylvania; of the Boston Society of Natural History of the United States; of the South AfricanInstitution of the Cape of Good Hope; Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of France; Member of theEntomological Society of Stettin, &c. &c. &c.
APRIL 1850 ... OCTOBER 1850.
VOL. XLIX.
TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, LONDON.
1850.
EDINBURGH:
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