CONTENTS. 



LV. Proceedwgs of Learned Societies 280 



LVI. Intelligence a7id Miscellaneous Articles ... 284 



LVII. Reduction of the Observation of the Transit of Mer^ 

 citry over the Sun, observed at the Royal Observatory, 

 Greenwich^ on the Sth of November, 1*802. Commu^ 

 nicated byT. FiRuiNGEK, Esq 289 



LVI IF. Geological Journey to Mount Ramazzo in the Ap- 

 penines of Liguria ; Description of this Mountain ; Dis-^ 

 covery of' the true Variolite in its Bed ; of Lime ; of the 

 Arragonile ; and of Martial, Magnetic, Cupreous, and 

 Arsenical Pyrites, in the ^Steatitic Rock ,• Mamfacture of 

 the Sulphate of Magnesia. By M. Faujas St. Fond 296 



LIX. Essay upon Machines in General. By M. Carnot, 

 Member of the French National Institute, &^c. &c. 310 



I.X. On Chemical Nomenclature. By a Correspondent 320 



LXI. Account of the Manufactures carried on at Bangalore , 

 and the Processes employed by the Natives in Dyeing Silk 

 and Cotton . . . . . . 322 



LXI I. Description of the Bermuda Islands , and particularly 

 the Island of St. George. Addressed to the Directors of 

 the French Museum of Natural History, by M. A. F. Mi- 

 ch Aux, temporary Agent of the French Imperial Ad- 

 ministration of Woods and Forests in North America 331 



LXin. Facts upon which to found a History of Cobalt and 

 Nickel. ByM.PROVST. Extracted by M.Chevreuil 337 



LXIV. The mean Motions of the Sun and Moon, of the 

 Su7l's Perigee, the Moon's Perigee and Node ; the Times 

 of their several Revolutions, both in respect to the Equinox 

 and to the fixed Stars, and in respect to each other : de- 

 duced from the New Tables of the Sun and Moon lately 

 published by the French Board of Longitude. By James 

 Epps, Esq 347 



LXV. Mineralogical Account of the Island of Corsica ; con- 

 tained in a Letter from M. Rampasse^ formerly an 

 Officer in tke Corsican Light Infantry, to M. Faujas de 

 St. Fond .. 351 



LXVI. On the Identity of Silex and Oxygen. By Mr. 

 Hume, of Long-Acre, London 356 



LXVIL Report of' Surgical Cases in the City and Finsbury 

 Dispensaries , for November 1807; containing a Dissection 

 of a Case of Hydrocephalus in t emus. By John Taun- 

 ton, Esq 363 



LXV III. Notices respecting New Books 365 



LXIX. Proceedings of Learned Societies 366 



LXX. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles ... -370 



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