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Mr. R. Phillips's Experiments on Platina 94 



Notice of the Arrival of Twenty-six of the Summer Birds of 

 Passage in the Neighbourhood of Carlisle, during the Spring 

 of 1832, together with some of the scarcer Species that have 

 been obtained in the same Vicinity from the 10th of November 

 1831, to the 10th of November 1832 ; with Observations,&c. 96 

 Mr. J. D. Forbes's Translation of Baron Maurice's Abstract of 

 the principal Demonstrations of M. Fourier, relative to the 

 Mathematical Law of the Radiation of Heat ;— in a Letter 



to Sir -David Brewster 103 



Sir J. F. W. Herschel's Notice of a remarkable Deposition of 



Ice round the decaying Steins of Vegetables during Frost. . 110 

 Rev. H. Lloyd on the Phenomena presented by Light in its 



Passage along the Axes of Biaxal Crystals 112 



Rev. P. Keith on the Structure of Living Fabrics {continued). . 120 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 131 



Geological Society 14-7 



Singular Fog-bow seen above Old Melrose 151 



Mr. F. Watkins on the Sensation produced upon the Tongue 

 by Magneto-Electricity — Mr. J. F. Phoenix on the Power 

 of the House-Spider to escape from an insulated Situation. . 152 

 Substances contained in Opium— Analysis of Camphor and 



some volatile Oils 153 



Formation of Acetic Acid from Carbonic Oxide and Hydrogen 155 



Delphia and Solania — On Meconine 156 



Inquiry respecting the Use of Clocks instead of Chronometers 



at Sea 157 



Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth-day of Priestley 158 

 Occultations of fixed Stars by the Moon, in February 1833 — 

 Extract from the Meteoroiogical Journal kept at Penzance 



by Mr. Giddy 159 



Meteorological Observations 160 



NUMBER IX.— MARCH. 



Prof. G.B. Airy's Remarks on Mr. Potter's Experiment on In- 

 terference 161 



Sir D. Brewster's Observations on the Action of Light upon 

 the Retina; with an Examination of the Phenomena de- 

 scribed by Mr. Smith of Fochabers 168 



Prof. T. Graham on the Law of the Diffusion of Gases (continued) 175 



Prof. Rigaud's Notice of the Occurrence on a Stone Wall of a 

 remarkable Deposition of Ice, similar to that described in the 

 preceding Number of the Philosophical Magazine 190 



Prof. W. R. Hamilton on the Effect of Aberration in prismatic 

 Interference 191 



Rev. T. J. Hussey's Catalogue of Comets (continued) 194? 



Mr. R. J. Kane's Analysis of some Combinations of Platina : 

 with Observations by Mr. R. Phillips 197 



