TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



No. Yll.—July 1835. 



Page 



I. Fairy Stones 1 



II. On Urine. By Thomas Thomson, M. D., &c. . . • 3 



III. Examination of Lymph, Blood and Chyle. By John 



Miiller, M. D., &c. Continued 15 



IV. On Accidental and Complementary Colours. By Charles 



Tomlinson, Esq 21 



V. On the Number and Character of the Colours that enter 



into the Composition of White Light. By P. C. . . 27 



VI. On the Relation of the Specific Heat of Bodies to their 



Atomic Weights 34 



VI. Ascent of Chimborazo on the 16th December 1831. By 



M. Boussiugault 45 



VII. Examination of Hair Salt, or Native Sulphate of Alu- 



mina and Iron. By Robert D. Thomson, M. D. . . 55 



VIII. Observations on the Formation and Changes of the In- 

 ferior Order of Plants. By F. J. Kutzing .... 62 



IX. Analyses of Books 64 



1. Introduction a Tetude de la Botanique ou Traite Ele- 



mentaire de cette Science. Par Alphonse de Candolle ib. 



2. Memoir on the Fresh Water Formation of Burdie- 



house, &c. By Samuel Hibbert, M. D., &c. . . 68 



X. Scientific Intelligence 71 



1. Royal Institution. Dr. Faraday on Sound . ... ib. 



2. Diseases of the Larch 72 



3. Arsenic in English Sulphuric acid 73 



4. American Patents 76 



5. New Method of Drying Plants 74 



6. Flora of the Arkansas ib. 



7. F. P. N. Gillet de Laumont 75 



8. Severity of Last Winter in America 7^ 



9. New Cetaceous Animal ib. 



10. Combinations of Iodine with Palladium and Iridium . 77 



11. VolvoxGlobatorof Miiller 78 



12. Capnomore 79 



13. Iron Works in the Uralian District ib. 



Meteorological Table 80 



No. Ylll.— August. 



I. Biographical Account of Baron Dupuytren, with a Portrait 81 



II. On Racemic Acid. By Thomas Thomson, M. D., &c. . . 97 



III. On the Number and Character of the Colours that enterinto 



the Composition of White Light By P. C, continued. 108 



IV. Instances of Spontaneous Combustion, detailed in a paper 



read before the Royal Irish Academy, 25th IVIay, 1835. 



By M. Scanlan, Esq 119 



V. On an easy Method of Measuring Prismatic Spectra. By 



Mr. Andrew Pritchard 122 



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