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soluble with effervescence in acetic acid. When the precipitate m 

 the sprincr water is trulv dissolved without effervescence by acetic 

 acid, it is°due to organic matter, provided no chloride is present in 

 sufficient quantity to produce the reaction. 



2 Claudia and Pudens ; an attempt to shew that the Claudia 

 mentioned in St Paul's Second Epistle to Timothy, was 

 a British Princess. By Archdeacon Williams. 



The following Donations to the Library were announced :— 



Third Bulletin of the Proceedings of the National Institute for the 

 Promotion of Science at Washington. February 1842 to 

 February 1845. — By the Institute. 



Tenth Letter on Glaciers.— ^3/ Professor J. D. Forbes. 



Notes on the Topography and Geology of the CuchuUin HiUs in 

 Skye. and on the Traces of Ancient Glaciers which they pre- 

 sent * By Professor J. D. Forbes.— .By the Author. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. No. 158.-By the So. 



The Electrical Magazine. Conducted by Mr Charles V. Walker. 



October 1845.— By the Editor. 

 The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 



XV., Part 2. — By the Society. 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. Tome IIL, of 3d Series.— 



By the Society. 

 Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu 



Berlin. 1843. 



Bericht uber die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen 

 der Konigl.-Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Ber- 

 lin. Juli 1844 bis June 1845.— By the Academy. 



Novorum Actorum Academise Caesarea^ Leopoldino-Carolinffi Na- 

 ture Curiosorum voluminis decimi noni Supplementum et vo- 

 lumen vigesimum. — By the Academy. 



Scheikundige Onderzoekingen gedaan in het Laboratorium der 

 Utrechtsche Hoogeschool. Deel HI., Stuk. 3.— By the Edx- 

 tors. 



