Almonds. 19. Venom of the Common Toad.

20. Ignited

Wire Lamp. 21. Changes of Colour by Heat. 22. Babylo-
nian Cement. 23. On Chemical Nomenclature. 24. Cap-

tain Bagnold on a Table Furnace. 25. Manufacture of Ca-
lomel.

§ Meteorology, Electricity, Magnetism, &c.

P. 122

1. Atmospherical Phenomena, 1817. 2. Luminous Meteor.

3. Meteor. 4. Luminous Phenomenon. 5. Luminous

Meteor. 6. Water Spout. 7. Increase of a Glacier. 8. Earth-

quakes on the Continent. 9. Earthquake in France.

10. Earthquake in England. 11. Earthquake in Green-

land. 12. Extraordinary Fall of Rain. 13. Magnetism

applied as a Test for Iron. 14. Morichini's Experiment in

Magnetism

132

NATURAL HISTORY.

§ Botany.

1. Native Country of the Potatoe. 2. Alder Tree

§ Mineralogy, Geology, &c.

1. Pargasite, a new Mineral. 2. Instrument to distinguish

Minerals. 3. Silicated Hydrate of Alumine. 4. Native

Copper. 5. Fossil Bone of a Whale. 6. Remains of a

Mammoth

§ Medicine, &c.

138

1. Bite of the Adder. 2. Cure for the Hydrophobia. 3. Rus-

sian Remedy for Hydrophobia.

141

GENERAL LITERATURE AND MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.

1. Ancient Manuscripts. 2. Ancient Tomb. 3. Ancient

Subterranean Apartments. 4. Site of the Temple of Con-

cord at Rome. 5. Ancient Model of Measures. 6. Ancient

Coin. 7. Haches de Pierre. 8. Commerce. 9. On the Use

of Salt in feeding Cattle. 10. Lithovasa. 11. African

Expedition. 12. Saxon Piece of Antiquity. 13. Fine Arts

at Rome. 14. Antiquities. 15. Ancient Remains. 16.

Roman Coins. 17. Ship discovered in the Earth in Africa.

18. Venus de Medicis. 19. Roman Villa in Oxfordshire.

20. Antiquities in Egypt. 21. Height of Adam's Peak.

22. New Alcali. 23. Strelitzia Depicta. 24. Some omis-

sions in the List of Wines given in the last Number rectified,

143

XVII. Narrative of an Expedition to explore the River Zaire,

usually called the Congo, in 1816, under the direction of Cap-

tain Tuckey; published by permission of the Lords Commis-

sioners of the Admiralty. .

. . 154

XVIII. Remarks on Dr. Ure's" Experiments to determine the

Constitution of Liquid Nitric Acid," &c. By Richard Phillips,

Esq. F. L. S. and M. Geol. Soc.

162

1 168

171

XIX. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

XX. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

XXI. On Street Illumination. By John Millington, Esq. 177

XXII. Expedition to the Polar Seas.

182

XXIII. On the new British Method of preparing Flax and Hemp.

186

188

To Correspondents.

XXIV. Meteorological Diary for the Months of December, Ja-

nuary, and February, 1818, kept at Earl Spencer's Seat at

Althorp, in Northamptonshire. .

. 183

A Select List of New Publications during the Three last Months.

ERRATA.

Page 28, lines 25 and 35, for 6343 feet, read 6500.

186

то

No. X.

I. Signor Monticelli's Report to the Royal Academy of Sciences

at Naples, upon the Eruption of Vesuvius in December,

1817.

. 199

II. Instructions for the Adjustments and Use of the Instru-

ments intended for the Northern Expeditions. .. 202

III. Description of the Apparatus, alluded to in the foregoing

Paper, for bringing up Water from certain depths in the

231

Sea.

IV. Extract of a Letter from John Davy, M. D. to Sir H. Davy.

233

V. Translation of a Letter from a learned Foreigner to a Friend

in this Country, on the Figure of the Earth, and on the

Length of the Seconds Pendulum in different Latitudes. 235

VI. Experiments and Observations relative to Vision; by

Marshall Hall, M.D. of Nottingham, formerly Senior Pre-

sident of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. 249

VII. On Cryptogamous and Agamous Vegetation. From the

French of C. F. Brisseau Mirbel.

. 257

VIII. Case of a Child aged six months, who swallowed a double-

bladed Knife, without Injury.

265

IX. On the Production of Ice at the Bottoms of Rivers. 268

X. On the Sounds produced by Flame in Tubes, &c. by M.

Faraday, Chemical Assistant in the Royal Institution. 274

XI. On the Aqueduct of Alcantara. By George Rennie, Jun.

Esq.

281

XII. Report of Mr. Brande's Lectures on Mineralogical Che-

mistry, delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution, in

the Spring of 1817.

291

.

300

305

. 311

XIII. On the Ventilation of Covent Garden Theatre.

XIV. On the increasing Populousness of England.

XV. Observations on the Geology of the West India Islands,

from Barbadoes to Santa Cruz, inclusive. By William

* Maclure.

XVI. On the original Formation of the Arabic Digits. . 323

XVII. History of Dr. Brewster's Kaleidoscope, with Remarks

on its supposed resemblance to other combinations of plain

Mirrors.

.. 324

XVIII. An Account of the New Alkali lately discovered in

Sweden.

337

XIX. Observations relating to the Operations undertaken to

determine the Figure of the Earth. By M. Biot, of the

Academy of Sciences. .

XX. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

XXI. Miscellanea.

I. MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

§ 1. Mathematics, Astronomy, &c.

340

351

353

1. Mathematical Prize Question for 1820. 2. Astronomical

Prize Question for 1820. 3. Astronomical Prize Medal.

4. Harvest Moons. .

353, 4

§ 2. Architecture, the Arts, Agriculture, &c.

1. Incombustible Store-House at Plymouth. 2. Mr. Feetham's
Description of an apparatus for sweeping Chimnies, without
the aid of Climbing boys. 3. Telegraphs. 4. Roller Pump.
5. Propagation of Olive-Trees. 6. Blight in Apple-Trees.
7. Fly in Turnips. 8. Sugar of the Beet-root.

II. CHEMICAL SCIENCE.

§ 1. Chemistry.

354-8

1. A Letter to Mr. Brande on the Subject of the Pharmaco-

poeia, from Thomas Young, M. D. F. R. S. Fellow of the

Royal College of Physicians; with Mr. Brande's Answer.

2. Reduction of Chloride of Silver by Hydrogen. 3. Prize

Question of the Academy of Sciences at Paris for 1819.

4. Gottingen Chemical Prize for 1819. 5. Boiling Point

of fluids. 6. Oxide of Lead Crystallized. 7. Crystallized

Iodine. 8. Radiant-Heat. 9. On a Mode of preserving
some Vegetable Remedies. By Marshall Hall, M. D. 10. On
the spontaneous Combustion of Cotton Goods, which have
been imbued with Linseed Oil. By Marshall Hall, M. D.
11. On the Moiré Metallique, or Fer blanc moiré. 12. Reduc-
tion of the Oxide of Silver by Ammonia. 13. Chinese mode
of making Sheet Lead. 14. Ignited Platinum Wire. 15. Ex-
plosion from Fire-damp. 16. New Products from Coal.
357-70

§ 2. Meteorology.

1. Rain of earthy Matter. 2. Halo. 3. Meteoric Iron.

4. Earthquake. 5. Ice from the North. 6. Description of

the Lake which has been found in the Valley of Bagne, in

the Valaise.

III. NATURAL HISTORY.

§ I. Zoology, Botany, &c.

371-4

1. Zoophytic Animals. 2. Hoopoe. 3. White Spoon Bill.

4, Osprey. 5. Pied Fly-catcher.

§ II. Geology, Mineralogy, &c.

375-6

1. New Mineral.—Hydrate of Silica and Alumina. 2. Silici-

ferous Sub-sulphate of Alumine.

3. Sliding Mountain.

4. Fossil Remains. 5. Embedded Diamonds. 6. Zircon.

§ III. Anatomy, Medicine, &c.

376-8

1. Anatomical Prize Question for 1819. 2. Newly discovered

Membrane in the Eye. 3. Medical Prizes for 1820. 4. Use

of Tar in Pulmonary Consumption. 5. On the Use of dis-

tilled Sea-water. 6. Medical properties of Salt. . . 378-81

IV. GENERAL LITERATURE AND MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENce.

1. British Museum. 2. Pompeia, Herculaneum, &c. 3. Her-

culaneum, MSS. 4. Model of Roman Measures. 5. Roman

Station. 6. Temple of Castor and Pollux. 7. Ancient

Sepulchre. 8. Remains of an ancient Building at Paris.

9. Ancient Sarcophagus. 10. Ancient Mausoleum. 11. An-

tiquities at Avignon. 12. Ancient Amphora. 13. Ancient