TABLE OF CONTENTS 



No. I. — January 1835. 



Page 



Preface 1 



I. On Calico- Printing. By Thomas Thomson, M.D., &c. . . 3 



II. A Journey in Spain. By M. F. Le Play ...... 19 



III. On Respiration. By Thomas Thomson, M.D., &c. . . 27 



IV. &n the Changes produced in the composition of the Blood 



by Repeated Bleedings. By Thomas Andrews, Esq. . 31 



V. History and Analysis of the Vanadiate of Lead. By Robert 



D. Thomson, M.D , .... 34 



VI. Transmission of Heat through different Solid and Liquid 



. Bodies. By M. Melloni 45 



VII. Products of the Distillation of Pit Coal. By F. F. Runge 47 



VIII. On Pittacal, (a New Dye-Stuff) 54 



IX. On the Acid Nature of the Blood, and the Distinction 



between Arterial and Veinous Blood. By R. Hermann 55 



X. Researches on the Blood. By L. Gmelin and F. Tiedemann, 



assisted by E. Mitscherlich 56 



XI. On the Magnetic Intensity of the Earth. By C. Hansteen 60 



XII. Analyses of Books. Traite Experimental de Electricite 



et du Magnetisme et de leurs rapports avec les Pheno- 

 menes naturels. Par M. Becquerel, torn, i 66 



XIII. Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Method of destroying Mice in their Lurking Places . 76 



2. Fresh Water Formation in Greece, with Lignites. By 



M. Theodore Virlet 77 



3. Oil Extracted from the Spirit of Wine of Potatoes. By 



M. J. Dumas ib. 



4. Mode of detecting some Organic Acids. By H. Rose 78 



5. Iron Mine of Rancie. By M. Dufrenoy ib. 



6. Geological Position of the Campan Marble. By M. 



Dufrenoy * 79 



7. Effect of Gases on Vegetation. By M. Macaire . . ib. 



8. Notices of the Natural History of Egypt in 1832. By 



M. Roux . ib. 



9. Summary of a Meteorological Register kept at Eccles, 



Berwickshire. By the Rev. James Thomson ... 80 



No. II. — February. 



I. Biographical Account of Alexander Volta. Bv M. Arago . 81 



II. Chemical Analysis of Thulite. By Thos. Thomson M,D, cS:c. 92 



