119 Seknttfic Ne<ivs, Jccounts'vf Books, ii^c. 



SCIENTIFIC NEj^S, ACCOUNTS OF BOOKS, av. 



Philofophkal Trni^a^ions-of-iheRiiytilSvckty of London for the Tear i.8or. Part th) FirJ}, 

 ^(c^tAy.l/ifO Pagis,: with fifteen Platei, and a lAeteorological Journal. London, fold by 

 Elmfly. 



JL his part contains;—,!. The Croonian Leflure. On the Irritability of Nerves, by 

 Everard Home, Efq. F. R. S. 2. THt Bkkerian Ledure. On the Mechanifm of the 

 Ey£, by Thomas Young, M. D. F. R. S. (Plulof. Journal V. 253.) 3. On the neceffary 

 Truth of certain Conclufions obtained by means of imaginary Quantities. By Robert 

 .Woodboufe, A. M. Fellow of C^ius College. 4. On' the Produftion of artificial Cold, 

 pv means of Muriate of Lipie. By Mr. Richard Walker. (See Phil. Journal V. 222, 272.) 

 5. Account of a monftrous Lamb, by Mr. Anthony Carlifle. 6. An Anatomical Defcrip- 

 tiop of a male RhinoQeros. By Mr. H. Leigh .Thomas, Surgeon. 7, Demonftration of a 

 Theorem, by which fuch Portions of tKe Solidity of a Sphere are affigned as admit an Alge- 

 braic Expreffion.. ^By Robert^ Woodhoofe, A.M. Fejlew of Caius College, Cambridge. 

 8. Account of the Difcoyery of Silver in Herfand Copper Mine. By the Rev. Malachi 

 Hitchins. 9. Account of an Elephaot's T,ufk, .in which. the Iron Head of a Spear was 

 found imbedded. By Mr, Charles Cotnbe. . 10. .Defcrjiption of the Arfeniates of Copper 

 au^j.QJf^ IjW from.the Countjf.Qf Coi^iwall, By the Count de Bournon. 11. A.nalyfis of 

 the Arfeniates of Copper and of Iron, defcribed in the preceding Paper ; likewife an Ana- 

 JyfiS of the red odtahedral Coppei; Ore of Corn wall}, with Remarks on fome particular 

 JModes of Analyfis.^ By Richard Cheneyix, Ef<j. M.,^5 L A. ■ Appendix. Meteorological 

 Journal kep t at the Apartments ef the Royal Society, by order of the Prefident and Council. 



NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. 



Exira&'frvht the Notice of the W'crl's of the Claft ofJAfathematical and Fhyfical Sciences, of the 

 National Infliitite of France ■duri'ig the third Trimejlre cf the Ninth Tear. 



Natural Philofophy. — New Galvanic Experiments. — The combuftion of metals by this 

 power as related at page 239 of our lad Number, was difcovered by Fourcroy, Vauquelin, 

 and Thenard, and not by Fourcroy alone as there ftated. 



Chemifiry. — On the ReduHion of the Oxides of Zinc by Charcoal. — The newly difcovered 

 combination of oxigen with carbon in the form of an oxide, upon which Mr. Cruickfliank 

 has publifhed fuch an excellent courfe of experiments in this Journal, has likewife beea 

 the fubjeft of attention with Dr. Woodhoufe of America, and the French chemifts 

 Defornjes, BerthoUet, Clement, Guyton, Fourcroy, Thenard, Haflenfratz. As this fub- 



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