TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



NUMBER I.— JULY. 



Page 



Dr. Colquhoun on a new Form of Carbon I 



Eev. Mr. Powell's Remarks on some of Mr. Ritchie's Experiments on 



RadiantHeat , 13 



Mr. Miller on the Production of Acetic i!\cid I7 



Mr. Miller on the Oxidation of Palladium , 20 



Mr, Miller on the Vapours which render Platinum red-hot 21 



Dr. Christison's Reply to Mr. Phillips , 23 



Mr. Christie on the Magnetism of Iron arising from its Rotation. (With 



a Plate.) continued 27 



Analysis of Acorns. — 43 



Mr. Horner on the Use of continued Fractions with unrestricted Nume- 

 rators in Summation of Series {concluded), 48 



CoL Beaufoy*s Astronomical Observations 62 



Analytical Account of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 



Society of London, for 1 826. Parts I. and IL (concluded) 62 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 6I 



. Royal Institution. ^ . * 67 



■ Geological Society 67 



On the Absorption of Gases by Liquids 6g 



Lieut. Drummond's Station-light 74 



Butter in a Bog 75 



Luminous Meteor 75 



New Scientific Books 76 



New Patents 77 



Mr. Giddy's Meteorological Journal , 78 



Mr. Howard's Meteorological Journal , 79 



NUMBER II.— AUGUST. 



Rev. Mr. Emmett's Account of a curious Phaenomenon observed in the 



Moon ^ . . . 81 



M. Chladni's New Catalogue of Aerolites 83 



Mr. Herapalh on the Quantity of Vapour in the Atmosphere, and the 



Specific Gravities of Gases 97 



Mr. Gray on the Genus Hinnita of De France 103 



Mr. Christie on the Magnetism of Iron arising from its Rotation (continued) 106 



M. lierzelius's Analysis of some Minerals 1 16* 



