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Bulletin de lAcademie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de 

 Bruxelles. 1835. Nos. 8,9, 10, 11, V2. 



Annuaire de 1' Academic Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de 

 Bruxelles. 1836 — By the Academy. 



Annuaire de I'Observatoire de Bruxelles pour I'An 1836. Par le 

 Directeur A. Quetelet. 



Compte de I'Administration de la Justice Criminelle en Belgique 

 pendant les Annees 1831, 1832, 1833, et 1834, presente au 

 Roi par le Ministre de la Justice. 1835 — By M. QueUlet. 



Astronomische Naclirichten. Nos. 289 to 2M.—By M. Schumacher. 



Du Spiritualisme au xix™c Siecle, ou Examen de la Doctrine de 

 Maine de Biran, par L. A. Gruyer — By the Author. 



Institut Royal de France pour I'An 1 836 — By the Institute. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts ; conducted by Benja- 

 min Silliman, M. D., LL. D., &c., for January 1835.— By the 

 Editor. 



On the Occurrence of the Megalicbthys in a Bed of Cannel Coal 

 in the >»st of Fifeshire, with Observations on the supposed 

 lacustrine Limestone at Burdiehouse. — By Leonard Horner, 



Esq. 

 On an artificial Substance resembling Shell; by Leonard Horner 

 Esq. With an Account of an Examination of the same ; by 

 Sir David Brewster, LL. D. With Specimen of the substance. 

 — By Leonard Horner, Esq. 



The following communicalion was read : — 



Observations on the Ciiemical Nmnenclature of Inorganic 

 Compounds. By Dr Hope. 



The object of this paper is to propose a modification of the no- 

 menclature of inorganic compounds now in use among chemists, 

 which shall display with accuracy the ingredients of each compound, 

 and the atomic ratios of each ingredient. 



After stating the introduction of the principle of employing a de- 

 scriptive nomenclature in chemistry by Eergman, and the happy 

 application of it by Lavoisier and his associates, and subsequently 

 by Berzelius, he traced the various changes rendered necessary 

 by the improved knowledge of the more intimate constitution of 

 compounds, resulting from the discovery of combination in defi- 

 nite proportions, and the atomic ratios in which combinations take 

 place, adopted by Wollaston, Thomson, Thenard, Turner, &c. He 



