CONTEKTS OF THE VOLCME. 



No. II. 



Page 



On the supply of Water to the Western Parts of the Metropolis , 249 



On the Cultivation and Improvement of Edible Fruits • . 265 



•* The Gold^Headed Cane," rmeMJerf 278 



Revised Arrangement of the Ornithological System of Cuvier and L^ / j 

 Dumeril, with reference only to the Genera and Species of the ^f y ' 

 British Islands ..•» 



Dr. Mac Culloch on Malaria 294 



*' Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, Vol VI. 



V^xi 5, '^ reviewed 317 



On the Effect of certain Exercises on the Form, and then* |Influence 

 in preventing or curing Distortions of the Spine , , ,319 



On the Introduction of Salt as an Agricultural Agent . , .337 



Description of the Kaleidophone, or Phonic Kaleidoscope ; a new 

 philosophical Toy, for the illustration of several Interesting 

 and Amusing Acoustical and Optical Phenomena . .344 



London in 1826, with respect to its present state of Architectural 



Advancement . . 352 



** DaPlantarum, praesertim Cryptogamicarum, Transitu etAnalo- 



gia, Commentatio," rmei^erf 362 



On the Chemical Composition of two Liquids lately proposed as 

 Disinfectants of great power. By Dr. Granville, F. R. S. &c. 371 



Letter from Captain Sabine to Professor Renwick, on the Weights 

 and Measures of New York 382 



Further Observations on the Use of the Gelatin of Bones as an Ar- 

 ticle of Food. By Charles de Gimbernat . • . . 386 



'•Atlas Ethnographique du Globe, ou Classification des Peuples 

 Anciens et Modernes, d'apres leur Langues, par Adrien Balbi," 

 reviewed • . • 329 



Hieroglyphical Fragments 402 



On Achromatic Microscopes, with a description of certain Objects 

 for trying their defining and penetrating Power. By Dr. Goring. 410 



Astronomical and Nautical Collections; 



i. Corrected method of computing an observed Occupation . 434 



ii. Remarks on the Solar Tables. By Thomas Henderson, Esq. 438 



iii. AnsAver to some Remarks of Mr. Ivory .... 439 



iv. Elementary View ot the Undulatory Theory of Light. By 

 Mr. Fresnel 441 



Proceedings of the Royal Society ...... 455 



Proceedings of tlie Royal Institution of Great Britain . • ,456 



