ANNALS OF PHILOSOPHY;

OR, MAGAZINE OF

CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, MECHANICS,

NATURAL HISTORY,

AGRICULTURE, AND THE ARTS.

BY THOMAS THOMSON, M.D. F.R.S. L. & E. F.L.S. &c.

MEMBER OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, OF THE WERNERIAN SOCIETY, AND OF THE
IMPERIAL MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL ACADEMY OF PETERSBURGH,

VOL. X.

JULY TO DECEMBER, 1817.

London:

Printed by C. Baldwin, New Bridge-street;

FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,

47, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1817.

NUMBER LV.-JULY, 1817.

Biographical Account of Dr. Jean de Carro

Suggestions and Remarks on Naval Subjects, on Rigging, on Steering,

on the Form of the Rudder, on Anchors: with Observations on the

Height of Masts and upper Sails, on the Dry Rot, and on the Felling

and Preservation of Timber. By Col. Beaufoy....

Register of the Weather for Six Months at Malone House and Dublin.

By Anthony Semple, Esq.

On the Cells and Combs of Bees. By Dr. Barclay..

Account of different Currents of Wind observed at the same Time. By

T. L. Dick, Esq.

On Vision. By J. Campbell, Esq......

Method of preserving Volatile and Deliquescent Substances. By Dr.

Dewar....

Report made by M. Poisson of a Memoir by M. Hachette respecting the

Running of Liquids through small Orifices, and with Pipes applied to

these Orifices...

Determination of the primitive Form of Bitartrate of Potash. By Dr.

Wollaston ....

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Appendix to the Essay on the Chemical Compounds of Azote and Oxy-

gen. By Mr. J. Dalton

Description of an Absence Thermometer. By A. Semple, Esq.

Critical and Analytical Account of the Transactions of the Royal Society

of Edinburgh, Vol. VIII. Part I. 1817 ......

Proceedings of the Royal Society, May 22, June 5, 12, and 19

Linnæan Society, May 24, June 3, and 17......

Royal Society of Edinburgh, May 19

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Further Improvements in Professor Leslie's Method of producing Ice ....ibid.

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Philosophical Society of London....

Prize Question by the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh

Query respecting the Diseases of the West Indies ........

On sailing to the North Pole

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.ibid.

..ibid.

Another Improvement. By Mr. Booth

Arithmetical Query.....

Description of a Machine for raising heavy Weights, called a Jack. By

Mr. Moyle

Query respecting the Mode of freeing Wine from common Salt

Proposed Improvement in Brooke's Blow-pipe. By Mr. Barchard

Singular Formation found within an Egg. By Mr. Strutt..........

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Effect of different Rocks in Scotland on the Magnetic Needle. By Mr.

Webster

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Fusion of Wood Tin

Turkey Oil-stone

Black Powder remaining after the Solution of Tin in Muriatic Acid....ibid.

Holmite .....

Account of a very remarkable Mineral Water. By Mr. Garden

New Patents

Scientific Books in the Press....

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Col. Beaufoy's Magnetical and Meteorological Observations for May 76

Mr. Howard's Meteorological Journal, May 8 to June 5

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NUMBER LVI.—AUGUST.

Biographical Account of M. Rochon

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Appendix to the Essay on the Chemical Compounds of Azote and Oxy-

gen. By Mr. J. Dalton, concluded

A general Formula for the Analysis of Mineral Waters. By Dr. Murray 93

On the Salts composed of Sulphuric Acid and Peroxide of Iron. By Dr.

Thomson

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Mode of exploring the Interior of Africa. By H. Edmonston, Esq...... 103

On the Spur of the Ornithorhinchus Paradoxus. By M. H. de Blainville.. 112

Table showing the Quantity of Soda contained in Barilla, &c. By C.

Tennant, Esq.

Table of Differential Equations. By Mr. J. Adains...

Experiments on the Composition and Properties of the Naphtha of

Amiano. By M. Theodore de Saussure

Critical and Analytical Account of Cuvier, La Règne Animal

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Mr. Donovan's Essay on Galvanism.. 129

Experiments with the Gas Blow-pipe. By Dr. Clarke

A Descending Spout on Land. By L. Howard, Esq..

Gum from the Congo....

Disappearance of Saturn's Ring

Deuto-sulphuret of Copper

Hydrates of Tin

Butter of Antimony...

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Emetin......

Insects living in a Vacuum

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New Method of detecting Arsenious Acid, or Corrosive Sublimate, when

Scientific Books in the Press..

Col. Beaufoy's Astronomical, Magnetical, and Meteorological Observa-

tions, for June....

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Mr. Howard's Meteorological Journal, June 6 to July 5..

NUMBER LVII.-SEPTEMBER.

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Biographical Account of Dr. Ingenhousz. By the late Dr. Garthshore.. 161

Chemical Analysis of Cornish Tin. By Dr. Thomson

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A general Formula for the Analysis of Mineral Waters. By Dr. Murray,

concluded ......

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On the Vessels of Plants. By Dr. Wahlenberg

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Analysis of Rice. By M. Henri Braconnot

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Memoir on the Sodalite of Vesuvius. By M. Le Comte Borkowski

Chemical Examination of a Quantity of Sugar supposed to have been

intentionally poisoned. By Dr. Gorham...

Experimental Researches on the Ammoniacal Salts. By Dr. Ure

Report on Hachette's second Memoir on the running of Fluids through

Mineralogy and Geology

..ibid.

Ores of Cobalt

Register of the Weather at New Malton, in Yorkshire

Explosion in a Durham Coal-pit......

on Board a Coal Vessel

Coal in Russia

Query respecting the Matter concreted at the Bottom of Coppers

Note respecting the Sugar of the Acer Pseudoplatanus. By Mr. Cadell.. 234

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.ibid.

Correction of a Mistake in the Epitome of Mr. Solly's Paper given in the

Account of the Meetings of the Geological Society. By S. Solly, Esq. 235

Col. Beaufoy's Astronomical, Magnetical, and Meteorological Observa-

tions, for July

Mr. Howard's Meteorological Journal, July 6 to Aug. 4

NUMBER LVIII.-OCTOBER.

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Description of the Laurus Cinnamomum. By H. Marshall, Esq.

Suggestions for building experimental Vessels for the Improvement of the

Navy, with Remarks on the present Mode of Construction: and some

Experiments on the comparative Resistance of Water on differently

shaped Solids. By Col. Beaufoy

Elementary Ideas on the First Principles of Integration, by Finite

Differences. By Mr. G. Harvey

On the Quantity of real Acid in liquid Hydrochloric, and on the Com-

position of some of the Chlorides; with the Description of a new

Instrument for the Analysis of the Carbonates. By Dr. Ure

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