Contents, July–Oct. 1827.

To Our Readers and Correspondents Jul.–Oct.

On the Beauties contained in the Oval. . .

On the Art of forming Diamonds into single Lenses for Microscopes.—By Mr. A. Pritchard. ◊ [Communicated by Dr. GORING.]

Analysis of a newly-discovered Spring, at Stanley, near Wakefield.—By Mr. William West. ◊

Observations on the State of Naval Construction in this Country. ◊

On Malaria. No. II. ◊ [Communicated by J. Mac Culloch, M. D., F. R. S., &c. &c.]

Elements of Chemistry, including the recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the Science. By Edward Turner, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c., &c. Edinburgh, 1827. ◊

Experiments on Audition. ◊ [Communicated by Mr. C. Wheatstone.]

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§ 6.

On the Petromyzon Marinus. ◊

Observations upon the Motion of the Leaves of the Mimosa Pudica. ◊ [To the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Science.]

Experiments on the Nature of Labarraque’s disinfecting Soda Liquid. By M. Faraday, F.R.S., Corr. Mem. R. Acad. Sciences, Paris, &c. &c. ◊

HIEROGLYPHICAL FRAGMENTS; with some Remarks on ENGLISH GRAMMAR. In a Letter to the Baron William Von HUMBOLDT. By a Correspondent. ◊

Malaria: an Essay on the Production and Propagation of this Poison, and of the Nature and Localities of the Places by which it is produced, with an Enumeration of the Diseases caused by it, and of the Means of diminishing and preventing them, both at Home and in the Naval and Military Service. By J. Mac Culloch, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. Longman and Co. 1827. ◊

An Account of a new Genus of Plants called REEVESIA. By John Lindley, Esq., F.L.S., &c. &c. ◊

ASTRONOMICAL AND NAUTICAL COLLECTIONS.

i. Elementary View of the UNDULATORY Theory of LIGHT. By Mr. FRESNEL. ◊ [Continued from the last Number.]

ii. Rule for the Correction of a LUNAR OBSERVATION. By Mr. WILLIAM WISEMAN, of Hull. ◊

De l’Influence des Agens Physiques sur la Vie. Par W. F. Edwards, D.M., Membre associé de l’Académie royale de Médicine de Paris, Membre de la Société Philomatique, de la Société de Médicine de Dublin, &c. ◊

An Account of Professor Carlini’s Pendulum Experiments on Mont Cenis. ◊

Transactions of the Horticultural Society. Vol. vii. Part 1. 4to. London, 1827. pp. 208. ◊

I. Observations upon the Growth of Early and Late Grapes under Glass. By Mr. James Acon. ◊

II. On the Varieties of Cardoon, and the Methods of cultivating them. By Mr. A. Mathews. ◊

III. Accounts and Descriptions of the several Plants belonging to the genus Hoya, which are cultivated in the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick. By Mr. James Traill. ◊

IV. On acclimatizing Plants at Biel, in East Lothian. By Mr. John Street, gardener to the Honourable Mrs. Hamilton Nesbitt. ◊

V. Upon the Culture of Celery. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., F.R.S., President. ◊

VI. Report upon the New or Rare Plants which flowered in the Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, between March, 1825, and March, 1826. Part 1. Tender Plants. By John Lindley, Esq. ◊

VII. Account of a Protecting Frame for Fruit-Trees on Walls. By Mr. John Dick. ◊

VIII. On the Esculent Egg-Plants. By Mr. Andrew Mathews. ◊

IX. Notices of Communications to the Horticultural Society, between January 1, 1824, and January 1, 1825. Extracted from the Minute Books and Papers of the Society. ◊

X. Report on the Instruments employed in, and on the Plan of a Journal of Meteorological Observations, kept in the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick. ◊

XI. Journal of Meteorological Observations made in the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, during the year 1826. By Mr. William Beattie Booth. ◊

XII. On Orache, its Varieties and Cultivation. By Mr. William Townshend. ◊

XIII. On planting the moist Alluvial Banks of Rivers with Fruit-Trees. By Mr. John Robertson. ◊

XIV. On Dahlias. By Mr. William Smith. ◊

XV. On the Cultivation of Camellias in an open Border. By Mr. Joseph Harrison. ◊

XVI. A Method of growing Crops of Melons on open Borders. By Mr. William Greenshields. ◊

XVII. Notice of Five Varieties of Pears received from Jersey in the year 1826. By John Lindley, Esq. ◊

XVIII. Upon the Culture of the Prunus Pseudo-cerasus, or Chinese Cherry. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. ◊

XIX. On the Culture of the Pine-Apple. By Mr. James Dall.

XX. On forcing Asparagus. By the same. ◊

XXI. Observations upon forcing Garden Rhubarb. By Mr. William Stothard. ◊

XXII. Account of some remarkable Holly Hedges and Trees in Scotland. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. ◊

XXIII. An Account of a Plan of Heating Stoves by means of Hot Water, employed in the Garden of Anthony Bacon, Esq. ◊

On the Recent Elucidations of early Egyptian History. ◊

Proceedings of the Horticultural Society. ◊

June 19th.

July 3rd.

July 17th.

August 7th.

August 21st.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

I. MECHANICAL SCIENCE. ◊

II. CHEMICAL SCIENCE. ◊

III. NATURAL HISTORY. ◊

Meteorological Diary for June–August, 1827

Contents, Oct.–Dec. 1827.

To Our Readers and Correspondents

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, Albemarle Street, December 3, 1827.

On the Means generally used with the Intention of curing a Stoop.37 ◊

A Critique on the Aplanatic Object-Glasses, for diverging Rays, of Vincent Chevalier, ainé et fils. By C. R. Goring, M.D. ◊

On the Existence of Chlorine in the Native Black Oxide of Manganese. By John M’Mullen, Esq. ◊

Modern Improvements of Horticulture. ◊

Chemical Manipulation, being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the Methods of performing Experiments of Demonstration, or of Research, with accuracy and success By Michael Faraday, F.R.S., &c. ◊

Statistical Notices suggested by the actual State of the British Empire, as exhibited in the last Population Census. Communicated by Mr. Merritt. ◊ [Read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.]

On the Modern Ornaments of Architecture, &c. ◊

De l’Influence des Agens Physiques sur la Vie. Par W. F. Edwards, D. M., &c. ◊ [Continued from the last Number.]

Experiments on THOUGHT. By a Correspondent. ◊

HIEROGLYPHICAL Fragments, illustrative of Inscriptions preserved in the BRITISH MUSEUM, with some remarks on Mr. CHAMPOLLION’s opinions. In a Letter to the Cavaliere SAN QUINTINO. By a Correspondent. ◊

On the Naturalization of Fish. By J. Mac Culloch, M.D., F.R.S., &c. ◊

WADD's Nugæ Chirurgicæ, or, a Biographical Miscellany, reviewed

On Tic Douloureux. ◊

Remarks on some Quadrupeds supposed by Naturalists to be extinct. By John Ranking, Esq. ◊

ELEPHANT.

THE MASTODON.

THE TAPIR.

UNICORN.

HIPPOPOTAMUS.

TURTLE. TORTOISE.

SPECIES.

Description of a cheap and portable Instrument for enabling Young People to acquire a knowledge of the Stars, or determine their situation in the Heavens. By S. Lee, Esq. ◊

PROBLEM 1. To adjust the instrument.

PROBLEM 2. The instrument being correctly placed and levelled, the next operation will be to adjust the conical projection to the day and hour of observation.

PROBLEM 3. The cone being adjusted, and any star proposed, to find its place in the heavens.

PROBLEM 4. Having observed a star in the heavens, to find it on the projection.

PROBLEM 5. To find the hour of the day by the sun.

PROBLEM 6. To find the hour of the night by means of a star.

An Introduction to the Comparative Anatomy of Animals, compiled with constant reference to Physiology, and elucidated by twenty copper-plates. By C. J. Carus, M.D., &c. Translated from the German, by R. T. Gore, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. ◊

Experiments to determine the Comparative Value of the principal varieties of Fuel used in the United States, and also in Europe, and on the ordinary Apparatus used for their Combustion. By Marcus Bull. Philadelphia and London, 1827. ◊

Meteorological Essays and Observations. By J. Frederic Daniell, Esq., F.R.S. Second Part, 1827. ◊

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the year 1827. Part II. ◊

A Practical Treatise on the use of the Blowpipe in chemical and mineral analysis; including a systematic arrangement of simple minerals, adapted to aid the student in his progress in mineralogy, by facilitating the discovery of the names of species. By John Griffin, Author of Chemical Recreations. Glasgow, 1827. ◊

Circle of the Seasons, and Perpetual Key to the Calendar and Almanack; to which is added the Circle of the Hours and History of the Days of the Week, being a compendious Illustration of the History, Antiquities, and Natural Phenomena of each Day in the Year. London, 1828. Small 8vo. ◊

Conversations on the Animal Economy. By a Physician. 2 vols. small 8vo. London, 1827. ◊

Notice of a New Genus of Plants discovered in the Rocky Mountains of North America by Mr. David Douglas. By John Lindley, Esq., F.L.S., &c. &c. ◊

A Description of the Aurora Borealis seen in London on the Evening and Night of the 25th of September, 1827; with Critical Remarks upon other Descriptions of the same, and previous Appearances of the Meteor, both in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. By E. A. Kendall, Esq., F.S.A. ◊

Proceedings of the Royal Society. ◊

Proceedings of the Horticultural Society. ◊

September 4th.

September 18th.

October 2nd.

October 16th.

November 6th.

November 20th.

ASTRONOMICAL AND NAUTICAL COLLECTIONS. For Jan. 1828.

i. EPHEMERIS of the periodical COMET for its Return in 1828, computed with the consideration of a RESISTING MEDIUM. By Professor ENCKE. ◊

ii. Elementary View of the UNDULATORY Theory of Light. By Mr. FRESNEL. ◊ [Continued from the last Number.]

iii. Remarks on the Action of CORPUSCULAR FORCES. In a Letter to Mr. POISSON. ◊

iv. Calculations of LUNAR PHENOMENA. By THOMAS HENDERSON, Esq. ◊

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

I. MECHANICAL SCIENCE. ◊

II. CHEMICAL SCIENCE. ◊

III. NATURAL HISTORY. ◊

Meteorological Diary for September–November, 1827