The American journal of science and arts . Soc, Paris; Mem. Roy. Min. Soc, Dresden; Nat. Hist. Soc, Halle; Imp. Agric Soc, BIoscow; Hon. Mem. Lin. Soc, Paris; Nat. Hist. Soc, Belfast, Ire.; Phil, and Lit. Soc, Bristol, Eug.; Hon. Mem. Roy. Sussex Inst, Brigliton, Eng.; Lit. and Hist. Soc, Quebec; Mem. of various Lit. and Scien. Soc in America. AIDED BY BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, Jr., A. B. Assistant in the department of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology in Yale College; Sec. of the Yale Nat. Hist. Soc, Mem. of the Conn. A ?.?;!, nl Arts and Sci.; Cor. Mem. of the Lyceum of Naturtii tiLuji >?, New Y


The American journal of science and arts . Soc, Paris; Mem. Roy. Min. Soc, Dresden; Nat. Hist. Soc, Halle; Imp. Agric Soc, BIoscow; Hon. Mem. Lin. Soc, Paris; Nat. Hist. Soc, Belfast, Ire.; Phil, and Lit. Soc, Bristol, Eug.; Hon. Mem. Roy. Sussex Inst, Brigliton, Eng.; Lit. and Hist. Soc, Quebec; Mem. of various Lit. and Scien. Soc in America. AIDED BY BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, Jr., A. B. Assistant in the department of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology in Yale College; Sec. of the Yale Nat. Hist. Soc, Mem. of the Conn. A ?.?;!, nl Arts and Sci.; Cor. Mem. of the Lyceum of Naturtii tiLuji >?, New York, &c. VOL. XXXIV.—WfcT?, 1838. NEW HAVEN: Sold by A. H. MALTBY and B. & W. NOYES.—PhUadelphia, CAREY &HART and J. S. lATTELh.—Baltimore, Md., N. HICKMAN.—JVeM; York,G. & C. CARVILL & Co., No. 108 Broadway, and G. S. SILLIMAN, No. 45 William St.—Boston, C. C. LITTLE & Co. London, JAMES S. HODSON, No. 112 Fleet St.—Paris, CHARLES DUPERRON, Rue Mabillon. PRINTED BY B. L. HAMLEN. ^--,..«Mn? .^^^. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXIV. NUMBER I. Page. Art. I. Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Ad-vancement of Science, -----. 1II. Memoir upon the Temperature of the solid parts of theGlobe, of the Atmosphere, and of those regions of spacetraversed by the Earth; by M. PoissoN. Translatedfrom the French, by R. W. Haskins, - - - 57 III. Miscellaneous Remarks on certain portions of the Geol- ogy of Maine ; by Dr, Charles T. Jackson, - - 69 IV. Popular Notices of Mount Washington and the vicinity; by G. W. Nichols,—with additional remarks, by the Editor, 73 V. On the Tides ; by David Tomlinson, ... 81 VI. Equalization of Temperature and supply of air in roomswarmed by furnaces beneath; by Jas. Bolton, A. M., M. D., 84 VII. Description of an Air Pump of a very simple construc-tion, which acts both as an exhauster and condenser ; byProf. John Johnston, - . ... 86VIII. Notes respecting certain Indian Mounds and Earthworks,in the form of Animal Effigies, chiefly in the Wis


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