TABLE OF CONTENTS 



TO THIS SECOND VOLUME. 



APRIL 1798. 



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I. Jlx. memoir and new Experiments on the artificial Cinnabar of Mr. 

 Kirchoff. By the Count ApoUos de Moullln Poufchkin, Chamberlain to 

 his Majefty, the Emperor of all the Ruffias, Vice-Prefident of the College 

 of Mines, Honorary Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at 

 Peterfburgh, &cc. &;c. — — — — — page i. 



Inconveniences of the prefent method of manufafturing cinnabar. Annotation defcribing that 

 method. New procefs in the humid way, by trituration of tlie black fulphuret of mercufy in an 

 heated folution of pqtaih. Chief difficulty of this procefs. Experiments to afcertain the nature 

 of the procefs, and to render it certain in the large way. Beautiful cinnabar refembling carmine. 

 Inftruftions to manufadurers. 



II. On the luminous appearance faid to be exhibited by Phofphorus in azotic 

 Gas. By Dr. Alexander Nicholas Scherer, Counfellor of the Mines to his 

 Serene Highnefs the Duke of Saxon Weimar — — p. 8 



Hiftory of Goettling's obfervations and theory of phofphorus fhining in azote. Inveftigations of 

 the fame fubjeft by various German chemifts and others. 



III. On Mr. Lazowfki's new Barometer, or Weather-Inftrument. By a 

 Correfpondent — ■ — — — '■ — — p. 11 



Account of founds emitted by a wire on change of weather. Attempts to verify the faft. Inquiry 

 whether the wire aSed like Ofwald's ./Eolian harp. 



IV. Obfervations on Scylla and Charybdis. By the Abbe Lazzaro Spal- 

 lanzani, Profeffor of Natural Hiftory, at Pavi, F. R. S. &c. — p. 12 



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