VI CONTENTS. 



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VI. Animal Heat 371 



VII. Pyroxylic Spirit and its Compounds 374 



VIII. Analysis of Opium 380 



IX. Analysis of Books 383 



1. Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik und Chemie . . . ib. 



2. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Lon- 

 don for 1835. Part i , 388 



3. Manual of Pathology, &c. By L. Martinet, D. M. P. 

 Translated by Jones Quain, M. D 390 



X. Scientific Intelligence 391 



1 Excise Committee of the Royal Society ib. 



2. Passage of Electricity through Liquids 303 



3. Wichtine 397 



4. Taraxacum Officinale ib. 



5. Plants of Arabia, Palestine and Egypt 398 



6. Chloride of Gold as a caustic ib. 



7. Ink permanent in the Air ib. 



Horary Observations of the Barometer^ Thermometer &c. 399 

 Meteorological Journal , . . . , 400 



No. XII. — December. 



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



Written by himself, continued 401 



II. Researches into the Nature of the decolourizing combina- 



tions of Chlorine. By A. J. Balard, concluded . . 425 



III. On Bleaching Powder. By Thomas Thomson, M. D. &c. 



Regius Professor of Chemistry in the Univfersity of 

 Glasgow , 435 



IV. An Easy Method of filling Barometers. By a Correspondent 440 



V. On the Rocks which are distinguished by the Names of 



Greenstone and Greenstone Porphyry. By G. Rose . 444 



VI. On Madder and Madder Dyeing 452 



VII. An Account of the process of making Spirits in Great 



Britain and Ireland 457 



VIII. Analyses of Books 465 



1. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 London for 1835. Part i ib. 



2. New Works 47O 



Lehrbuch der Geologie und Geognesie von Dr. R. C. 



von Leonhard. 1834 ib. 



Lehrbuch der Botanik von Dr. G. M. Bischoff , . . ib. 



3. Resolutio Problematis de circuli Quadratura juxta cal- 

 culum quem colligere potuit Joaquimus Antonius de 

 Oleivera Leita6 471 



IX. Scientific Intelligence ib. 



L Natureof the Combinations of Alkalies with Carbonic Acid ib. 



2. Pharmaceutical Preparations 474 



3. Statistics of Geneva 475 



4. On Chemical Symbols 476 



5. Weather at Madras . ^ 479 



6. Meteorological Journal 480 



