CONTENTS. 



SCIENCE. 



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I. Upon a new Method of investigating the Specific Heats of the Gases. 

 By James Apjohn, M.D. M.R.I.A., Professor of Chemistry in 

 the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. Read Marcli 16, 1837, 1 

 II. Analysis of a Meteoric Stone which fell near Adair, in the County 

 of Limerick, on September 10, 1813. 5^/ James Apjohn, M.D. 

 M.R.I. A., Professor of Chemistry in the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, Ireland. Read May 23, 1836, 17 



III. On the Laws of Crystalline RefieMon and Refraction. By James 



Mac Cullagh, Esq., A.M. M.R.I. A., Fellow of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, and Professor of Mathematics in the University. Read 

 January 9, 1837, 31 



IV. On a hitherto unobserved Structure discovered in certain Trap 



Rocks in the County of Galway. By Robert Mallet, Esq., 



M.R.I. A. Read April 10, 1837, 75 



V. On a new Gaseous Compound of Carbon and Hydrogen. By 

 Edmund Davy, Esq., F.R.S. M.R.I. A., &c.. Professor of Che- 

 mistry to the Royal Dublin Society. Read June 26, 1837, . 80 

 VI. Remarks on the Species of Seals (Phocidce) inhabiting the Irish 

 Seas. By Robert Ball, Esq., M.R.I. A., &e. Read Decem- 

 ber 12, 1836 89 



VII. On a Series of Combinations derived from Pyroacetic Spirit. By 

 Robert Kane, M.D. M.R.I.A., Professor to the Royal Dublin 

 Society, and to the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland, Corresponding 

 Member of the Society of Pharmacy, and of the Society of 



