TABLE OF CONTENTS 



No. XIX.— J^M/y, 1836. 



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I. Biographical Account of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. . 



II. Experiments and Observations on Visible Vibration. By Charles 



Tomlinson, Esq., continued ...... 



III. On a New Oxide, similar to that of Donium. By Henry S. 



Boase, M.D 



IV. Description of a New Hygrometer, &c. By John Abraham 



Mason, M.D., M.R.C.S.E., &c 



V. Catalogue of Plants collected at Bombay. By John Graham, Esq. 



VI. Experiments on the heat or cold produced by dissolving Salts 



in Water. By Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S.L. & E., &c. 



VII. On some Astronomical Methods of Observation. By William 



Galbraith, A.M 



VIII. On a Difficulty in Isomorphism, and in the received Con- 

 stitution of Oxygen Salts. By Thomas Clark, M.D., &c. 



IX. Examination of the Water at the North Well of Scarborough. 



By Robert D. Thomson, M.D 



X. The Art of Dyeing, continued 



XI. Analyses of Books 



1. Narrative of an Excursion to the Lake Amsanctus, &c. 

 By Charles Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., &c. ... 



2. The Equilibrium of Population and Sustenance demonstrated. 



By Charles Loudon, M.D 



3. Observations on the present state of Naval Architecture, &c. 

 By J. Beamish 



4. On the Theory of Ratio and Proportion, as treated by Euclid, 



including an Inquiry into the nature of quantity. By the 

 Rev. Baden Powell, A.M., F.R.S., &c. 



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Vol 



XVII. 



The Transactions of the Linnean Society. 



part 3rd, 1836 



XII. Scientific Intelligence, &c. 



1. Pharmacy 



2. Westminster Medical Society 



3. Oxide of Zinc, antidote to Belladonna 



4. Volatile Oil of Spiraea Ulmaria . 



5. New Hydrate of Carbonate of Magnesia . 



6. Mode of preparing Azote 



7. Ice a non-conductor of Electricity 



8. Residuum of Fired Gunpowder 



9. Creosote as an Antisceptic .... 



10. Lithotrity employed in Persia in Ancient Times 



11. Calcaire grossier on the Garonne 

 Note on Dr. Boase's paper .... 



Silkworms 77 



British Association for the Advancement of Science . ib. 



Notice of New Books ib. 



Observations on Temperature, &c. By John A. Mason, 

 M.D., &c. . . 78 



Meteorological Journal. By the Rev. J. Wallace . . .80 



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