SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO., STATIONER'S HALL COURT;

AND

J. D. POTTER, 31, POULTRY, AND 11, KING STREET,

TOWER HILL.

LONDON:

WALTER SPIERS, PRINTER, GREAT PRESCOT STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOR 1861.

ENLARGED SERIES.

A Cruize in the Pacific,-the Tokalau Group, 470

Adriatic,-Gobbo Shoal off Salvore, 453

Amazon Bank, 568

An Earthquake in the East, 553

A New Method of Finding the Latitude by Double Altitudes of the

Sun by Means of Logarithmic Differences, 36

Another Batch of Bottles, 509

A Peep at Pekin, 13

Australia,-North-East and North Coasts, 221

Avarice: a Turkish Tale of Real Life, 65

A Visit to the Cedars of Lebanon, 493

A Visit to the Geysirs of Iceland, 661

Bird-Catching on the South Arran Islands, 236

Bombay Harbour,-its Lights, Dangers, and Defences, 625

Bottle Papers, 161

Campbell Reef, Torres Strait, 108

Cancao, Cochin China, Eastern Side of the Entrance to the Gulf of
Siam, 52

Changes in the Whale Fishery, 555

Channel Ports, 19

Charlestown Light and Beacons, 103

Charts and Coast Views, 455

Cotton Culture in China, 577

Crossing the Line, 513

Cyclones and Saxby's Weather System, 487, 622

Cyprus and the Karamania Charts, 515

Electric Cables, 621

Exploring Voyage on the Yang-tsze River, China, 349

Extracts from a Lecture on the late Royal Visit,-Delivered before

the Young Men's Christian Association and Literary Institute,

Charlottetown, December 13th, 1860, by the President, Captain

Orlebar, R.N., 131

Fanning Island,-an Incident, 432

Finding Compass Deviation at Kronstat, 619

French Naval Reserve, 621

Gleanings of the Japanese, 123

Glendinning Shoal, Indian Ocean, 109, 167

Ianthe Shoal, Caroline Islands, 166

Iron-Cased Ships of the British Navy, 661

Iron Ships and their Docks, 373

Isle Hainan, China, 639

Isle Reunion,-late Bourbon,-Indian Ocean, 113, 176

Japan, the Amoor, and the Pacific, 379

Lunars, 50

Lunar Equinoctials, 69, 164, 190, 263, 342, 384, 492

Magnetic Variation. By G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal, 344

More about the Feejees. By B. Seeman, Ph.D., 478

More Bottles, 564

Mossel Bay as a Harbour of Refuge, 562

Natchendall Island, Indian Ocean, 620

Nautical Notices, 52, 102, 165, 218, 342, 397, 453, 510, 566, 599,

612, 694

New Books:

Cook's Voyages. Edited by John Barrow, Esq., 223

Journal van de Reis naar het Oubckende Zuidland, inden jare 1642

door Abel Jansz Tasman, &c., 224

Letters from High Latitudes: being some Account of a Voyage in

the schooner yacht "Foam," &c. By Lord Dufferin, 695

The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology. By M.
F. Maury, LL.D., U.S.N., 111

Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects, Vol. I. Edited
by E. J. Reed, M.I.N.A., Secretary of the Institution, 111
Winds and their Courses,-a Practical Exposition of the Laws
which Govern the Movements of Hurricanes and Gales, &c. By
G. Jinman, Master Mariner, 343

New Charts, 56, 110, 167, 280, 398, 456, 512 568, 694

Note on a Method of Reducing the Apparent Distance of the Moon

from Sun or Star to the True Distance. By Admiral C. R. D.

Bethune; 205