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CONTENTS. V 



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2. Scientific Association of Germany 237 



3. Remarks on the temperature of the Baltic. Extract of 



a Letter from Alexander Humboldt ih. 



Meteorological Journal. By the Rev. John Wallace . 238 



No. X.— October. 



I. On Racemic Acid, (concluded). By Thomas Thomson, 



M. D., F. R. S., &c 242 



II. Ascent of Chiraborazo, on the l6th December, 1831. By 



M. Boussingault, co/icZwc^t'o? . 252 



III. Researches into the Nature of the decolourizing combi- 



nations of Chlorine. By A. J. Balard ...... 262 



IV. On the Rocks which are distinguished by the names of 



Greenstone and Greenstone Porphyry. By Gustav Rose 272 



V. On the Phenomena of Accidental Colours. By M. Plateau. 



(Abridged from the Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 

 liii. By Charles Tomlinson, Esq.) 281 



VI. On the Theory of Accidental and Complementary Colours, 



with additional Experiments and Observations. By 

 Charles Tomlinson, Esq 283 



VII. On Malt. By Robert D. Thomson, M. D., concluded . 295 



VIII. Analyses of Books. 



The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, vol. 

 xvi. part ii. 1835 304 



IX. Scientific Intelligence. 



1. British Association — Anatomy and Medicine . . . 309 



Botany and Zoology 311 



Statistics 312 



2. Anatase, Napthaline, Bi-calcareo-Carbonate of Barytes, 

 Chemical Symbols 314 



3. Blue Velvet Copper 315 



4. Paramorphine and Pseudo-Morphine 3l6 



5. Massy Iridium. By Gustav Rose 3l7 



6. Remarkable Flight of a Bird 3 18 



7. Black Mud from Common Sewers ib. 



8. Gums 319 



9. Meteorological Journal. By the Rev. John Wallace . 320 



No. XI. — November. 



I. Life of the Rev. John Flamsteed, First Astronomer- Royal. 



Written by himself _..... 321 



II. Researches into the Nature of the decolourizing combina- 



tions of Chlorine. By A. J. Balard, continued . . . 341 



III. On the number and character of the Colours that enter 



into the composition of white Light. By P. C, continued 351 



IV. The Action of Saline Solutions upon Fibrin. By Harry 



Rainy, M. D., Lecturer on the Theory of Physic, in the 

 University of Glasgow, in a Letter to the Editor . . 365 



V. On the Sesquisulphate of Manganese. By Thomas Thomson, 



M.D. &c. Regius Professor of Chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow .... 369 



