204 JAMES SMITHSON AND HIS BEQUEST. 



which at present totally escape us. In short, if it is founded in truth, 

 its enabling the application of mathematics to chemistry cannot but be 

 productive of material results."* 



" The name imposed on a substance by the discoverer of it ought to be 

 held in some degree sacred, and not altered without the most urgent 

 necessity for doing it. It is but a feeble and just tribute of respect for 

 the service which he has rendered to science." t 



NOTE 8. 



CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF JAMES SMITHSON. 



Deposited in the Smithsonian Institution. 



Anderson, Dr. James. Letters to Sir Joseph Banks, baronet, president 



of the Royal Society, on the subject of cochineal insects discovered 



at Madras. 26 pp. 8°. Madras, 17SS. 

 Anderson, Dr. James. Letters on cochineal continued. 3G pp. 8°. 



Madras, 1789. 

 Anfrye et d'Arcet. Description d'un petit fourneau a coupelle. 48 pp. 



8°. Paris, 1813. 

 Antilogies ft I'ragmens philosophiques, etc. Tomes i-iv. 604,592,600, 



600 pp. 12°. Amsterdam, 1774. 

 Baker, Henry. The microscope made easy. 340 pp. 8°. London, 1743. 

 Becquerel, A. C. Experiences sur le developpeinent de l'electricite par 



la pression ; lois de ce developperaent. 32 pp. 8°. Paris. 

 Becquerel, A. C. Sur lesfils ties-tins de plat ineet d'aeier; et sur la distri- 

 bution du magnetisme libre dans ces derniers. pp. 33-52. 8°. Paris. 

 Bellevue, Fleurian de. Memoire sur Faction du feu dans les volcans, ou 



sur divers rapports entre leurs produits, ceux <le nos fourneaux, les 



meteorites et les roches primitives. 02 pp. 4°. 1805. 

 Bellevue, Fleurian de. Memoire sur les cristaux microscopiques, et en 



particulier sur la semeline, la melite, la pseudo-soininite et le selce- 



Romano. 24 pp. 4°. Paris, 1708. 

 Bellevue, Fleurian de. Memoire sur les pierres mcteoriques, et notam- 



ment sur cedes tombees pres de Jauzac, au mois de juin 1810. 24 



pp. 4°. Paris, 1821. 

 Bergman, M. T. Opuscules chvmiques et physiques. Tomes i, ii. 470, 



543 pp. 8°. Dijon, 1780, 1785. 

 Berthoud, F. L' Art de regier les pendules et les montres. Quatrieme 



edition. L26 pp. 12°.' Paris, 1811. 

 Berzelius, J. .1. De Femploi du chalumeau dans les analyses chimiques 



el les determinations mineralogiqnes. Traduit du Suedois, par F. 



Fresnel. 406 pp. 8°. Paris, 1821. 

 Berzelius, J. J. Nouveau systeme de min^ralogie. Traduit du Suedois. 



321 pp. 8°. Paris, L819. 

 Bibliotheca Parisiana. A catalogue of a collection of boohs formed by 



a gentleman in France. 17- pp. S 3 . London, 1701. 

 Bray. Win. Sketch of a tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire. Second 



'edition. 408 pp. 8°. London, 1783. 

 Breve aotiza di un viaggiatore sulle Lncrostazioni silicee termali d'lta- 



lia, e specialmente di quelle dei Gampi Flegrei nel Regno di ]S T apoli. 



35 pp. 8°. 



* A chemical analysis of some Calamines. /Smithsonian Miscell. Coll., No. 327, p 29. 

 tUn the composition oi Zeolite. Smitnsonian Miscell. Coll., No. .327, p. 45. 



