336 Phillips on lite Oil Question. 



contained, and in defiance of that evidence states it to have 

 been nearly full ; who converts evidence given to the best 

 of belief, into positive evidence, in order to make it contra- 

 dictory ; who states Mr. Faraday to have resisted solicitations 

 which he never heard of ; who asserts that the Globe Insur- 

 ance Company declared their opinion that the oil process 

 lessened the danger, when their counsel declared that they 

 reserved their opinion on the subject; who tells us that oil 

 vapour at 600° is and is not inflammable ; and lastly,- who 

 asserts that if a vessel contain oil and vapour, and the vapour 

 be generated so fast that the vessel cannot contain both, that 

 the vapour would be expelled and not the oil, but, who after- 

 wards says that oil would be expelled and not the vapour. 



Determining not to notice any future remarks of yours, on 

 this subject, I am, yours, ^c, 



R. Phillips. 



Art. XIV. Proceedings of the Royal Society. 



The following papers, have been read at the table of the 



Royal Society, since our last report. 



April 5. Ou the mean deusity of the earth, by Charles Hutton, L.L.D. 



On the separation of iron from other metals, by J. F. W. Herschel, 

 Esq. 



12. On the restoration of a portion of the urethra in the perinaeum, by 

 li. Earle, Esq., communicated by the President. 



May 3. Observations on the variation of local heat made amongst the 

 Garrow Hills, by D. Scott, Esq., in a letter to AV. T. Bkande, Esq., 

 Sec.,RS. 



On some subterraneous trees discovered at the foot of tlie cliffs, about a 

 mile to tlie eastward of Muudsley, by Lieut. Jefferson Miles, R.N., in 

 a letter to W. T. Brande, Esq., Sec, R.S. 



Case of a diseased enlargement of the glands of tlie neck, by John 

 HowsHiP, Esq., communicated by Sir Everabu Home, Bart., V.P.R.S. 



May 10. Some remarks on Meteorology, by Luke Howard, Esq. 



A Calculation of some observations of the Solar Eclipse, on the 7th of 

 September, 1820, by Mr. Charles Rusiker, communicated by Dr. 

 Thomas Young, Sec. R. S. for For. Corres. 



24. On the Anatomy of certain parts of tlie globe of tlie eye, by Arthur 

 Jacob, M.D., communicated by Dr. James Macartney. 



