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Analysis of Scie^itific Books, 



A Letter from L.W.Dillwyn^ Esq. to Sir H. Davy ^ BarL^PM.S. 

 (See an abstract of this Letter, Vol. XVII. p. 267.) 



An Account of Experiments on the Velocity of Sound, made 171 Hol^ 

 land, by Dr. G. Moll and Dr. A. Van Beek. 



Two and thirty pages of tabular details contain the researches of 

 these learned Dutchmen, on the above subject; these we shall 

 n^either insert nor abridge, but rest content with laying the fol- 

 lo\ving table before our readers, which shows the result of Ex- 

 periments on the Velocity of Sound, as observed by diiferent phi- 

 losophers, reminding them that the French metre is equal to 

 39.37 English inches. 



1 . Mersenne de Aste Ballistica Prop. 39. 



2. Tentainina Experim. Acad, del Cimento, L. B, 1738, Part ILp. 116. 



3. Philos. Trans. 1698, No. 247. 



4. Duhamel, Hist. Acad. Regi. L. II. Sect. 3, Cap. IL 



5. Philos. Trans. IJOSand 1709. 



6. Ibid, ibid. 



7. Mem. de I'Academie des Sciences, 1738 and 1739. 



8. Comment. Bononienses, Vol. II. p. 365. 



9. La Condamine Introduction Historique, &c. 1751, p. 98. 



10. Mem. de I'Acad. Roy ale des Sciences, 1745, p. 488. 



11. J. T. Mayer, Praktische G^ometrie Gottingen, 1792, B. 1. p. 166. 



12. MuUer, Gotting. Gelehrt. Anzeige, 1791, St. 159. and Voigt's Magazin, &c. B. 8. 



St. 1. p. 170. 



13. Annales de Chimie et de Phys. T. VII. p. 93. 



14. Gilbert's Annalen, neue Folge, B.V. p. 383. 



15. Connaissance des Tems. 1825, p. 361. 



A Catalogue of nearly all the principal Fixed Stars, bettveen the 

 Zenith of Cape Taivn, Cape of Good Hope, and the South Pole', 

 reduced to the \st of January, 1824. Bi/ the Rev. F. Fallows. 



Remarks on the Parallax of a Lp-cc, by J. Brinkley, D.D. 



Of this, which is the concluding paper of the volume before us, 

 we have already given a pretty copious abstract. [Vol. XVII. 

 p. 264.] 



