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ing lime and frequently removed, that it might acquire the 

 exact temperature of the lime. Some minutes elapsed without any- 

 other effect being perceived than the volatilization of some of the sul- 

 phur of the powder, and it seemed as if no combustion would take 

 place, but a loud explosion soon followed, without, however, breaking 

 the tube. — (Ann. de Chim. et de Phys. tom. xxiii. p. 217.) 



VII. Cleavage of Metallic Titanium, 

 Mr, W. Phillips has ascertained that the cubes of metallic titaniuta 

 found in the slag of the iron-works at Merthyr Tydvil (see Annals, 

 N. S. V. 67, and vi. 222), yield to mechanical division parallel to the 

 planes of the cube, 



VIII. Formation of a Meteorological Society, 



We rejoice to state that efforts are making to establish a uniform 

 and combined system of meteorological observation, by means of form- 

 iufr a Society for the purpose ; the scheme has been highly approved 

 of by several scientific gentlemen attached to Meteorology ; and a 

 meeting will be held on the third Wednesday in October, at the 

 London Coffee House, Ludgate-hiil, at eight o'clock in the evening, in 

 order to take the subject into consideration. 



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Article XlV. 

 NEW SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 



PREPARING FOR PUBLICATIOIT, 



Mr. John Shaw, the author of the Manual of Ariatbtiiy, hag ih the 

 press, a work on the Distortions and Deformities to which, from 

 various Causes, the Human Body is subject. 



A concise Description of the English Lakes, and the Mountains m 

 their Vicinity, with Remarks on the Miner-alogy and Geology of the 

 District, by Mr. Jonathan Otley. 



Mr. Cottle, of Bristol, will shortly publish Observations on the 

 Oreston Caves, and on the Animal Remains contained in them. 



JUST PUBLISHED. 



Meteorological Essays and Observations ; by J. F. Daniell, FRS. 



Description and Analysis of a New Sulphur Spring, at Harrogate ; 

 by W. West. From the Quarterly Journal of Science ; with Additions 

 by the Author. 



No. 19ofG. B. Sowerby's Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells; 

 containing the following genera: — Sigaretus, including Cryptostoma 

 of Blainvilie ; Stomatia, united to Stomatella ; Pileolus, a new fossil 

 Univalve, related to Nerita ; Eburna, as distinguished from Buccinum 

 spiratum and its congeners, which are usually united with it ; Ranella ; 

 and Pholadomya, a new Genus of Bivalve Shells, of which a single 

 recent Species has been lately found, but of which many fossil Species 

 have been hitherto described as CarditsD, Lutrarirc, &c. 



