V1 CONTENTS. 



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III. Analysis of Arden Limestone. By Thomas Thom- 



son, M.D., &c 96 



IV. Notice of Some Recent Improvements in Science. By 



the Editor 97 



Acoustics 98 



Electricity 99 



Magnetism 102 



Pneumatics 103 



Chemistry 108 



V. On a Deposit of Recent Marine Shells at Dalmuir, Dum- 



bartonshire. By Thomas Thomson, Esq 131 



VI. Account of some Fossil Crustacea which occur in the Coal 



Formation. By John Scouler, M.D., &c 136 



VII. Chemical Analysis of Crucilite, a new form of Peroxide 



of Iron. By Robert D. Thomson M.D 142 



VIII. Analyses of Books. Traite Experimental de Electricite, 



&c, torn, ii 144 



IX. Scientific Intelligence. 



1. New Expeditions of Discovery ....... 155 



2. Improvement in the Arts 159 



3. On the Native Country of Maize ib. 



4. Hydrate of Iron an Antidote for Arsenious Acid . . ib. 



5. New Pharmaceutical preparations 160 



6. Register of the Fall of Rain during 1834, kept at the 



Macfarlane Observatory, Glasgow University . . . ib. 



No. III.— March. 



I. On Calico- Printing, {continued). By Thomas Thomson, 



M.D., &c. {concluded) 161 



II. Researches into the Number of Suicides and Murders com- 



mitted in Russia, in 1821-22. By M. C. T. Hermann 173 



III. Notice of Some Recent Improvements in Science, (con- 



tinued) 184 



Chemistry ib. 



Botany 216 



IV. Analysis of Kirwanite. By Robert D. Thomson, M.D. . 219 



V. Chemical Analysis of Wollastonite. By Robert D. Thom- 



son, M.D 220 



VI On Spirits. By Andrew Steel, M.D 222 



VII. Analyses of Books. Philosophical Transactions for 1834, 



Part ii 228 



VIII. Scientific Intelligence 236 



1. Melloni's Experiments on Heat ib. 



2. Microscopical objects 239 



3. Isinglass ' ib. 



4. Prize of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. 



Petersburg for 1836 ib. 



Meteorological Journal for January 1835. By the Rev. 



J. Wallace 240 



