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RasBian Establishment — Lunar Volcanoes. ... 1^5 



Hydrophobia, remedy for — Padua— Libraries of St. PetersLurgb, ^ 177 



Aurora Borealis, •■ ^ - « . . . 27g 



Geneva — Naples, Surgery — Obituary in France, . . - 179 



Ellious Boethor— Botaiiy, - - - - - - . . loO 



Oriental Style— Statue of Luther— Dutch Canal, - - . 181 



Cutlery — Damascus Steel — Instruction in Latin by Ordinaire, - 182 



Physiolog^y, 185 



New mode of taking a fac simile, - - . . - . - 186 



Mineral Waters, --.---.., 387 



Incombustible cloth — Cobalt — Pyrolig^noas acid, - - - 188 



Signal lig^hts — Merino sheep and wooI-^Enafiiel for porcelain, - 18D 

 Magnetism — Orangeries — Agriculture — Measurment of the meridian, 190 

 Gymnastics— Marseilles — Mutual instruction — Zeal for anticjuity — 

 Hospitals in France, -_-.... I9I 



Auiraal Magnetism, - - . - - - . . - _ 192 

 Bavaria — Mineralogy — Vesurius — Necrology — A new mineral, - 193 

 Society of Christian morals, -- - - - - - -194 



Analysis on an ore of Silver, - - _ . - 377 



Solubility of Magnesia— Heat, - - • . - - 378 



Means of preserving eggs — Steam Boats in Sweden — Mechanic*s Soci- 

 ety for the advancement of the Arts at Geneva, - . -. 379 



Mutual Instruction at Geneva Rural Economy-^ — Agriculture at 



Liege— Netherlands, - ------ 380 



Brussels — Encouragement to Science — Amsterdam — Royal Academy 

 of Paintings there — Bourdeaux, - - - . • ^ 381 



Astafort Mutual Instruction — School at Caen — Linnean Society at 



Paris, --.--..- 382 



Religious Tract Society at Paris — Conservatory of arts and trades 

 there, -- 383 



Mineralogy — Himalaya Mountains — Tribe of Scotacks, - - 3S4 

 Geneva — A printing press for the blind — Progress of the German lan- 

 guage in Italy — Rome, - - --^— — - — '^ - - 385 

 Lithography — Maestricht — Besan^on — France — New Astral lamp, 386 

 Carpet for the hall of the throne at Pan's— Iodine as a medicine — Muri- 

 ate of copper, and nitrate of soda in Peru, - - - - 337 

 Arenilla — Galvanic instruments — Electro Magnetism, - 388 — 391 

 Estimation of the water which flows down the Rhine at Basle, - 392 

 Hospital of Mount St. Bernard — Extensive draining, - - 393 

 Galvano-magnetic condenser — A soft crystal of quartz, - - 394 

 Interesting Galvanic Instrument, - - - - 39J 

 Ingenious instrument for shewing the effect of Electro-Magnetism — Iron 



Steam Boat, - - - - - * -396 



Canal steam navigation — Mr. Brongniart's notice of American spaci- 



mens of Organic remains — Letter from Prof, Berzelius, - 397 



New Edition of Parkes' Chemical Catechism, - - - . 393 



II, Domestic, 



Sii^ular effects of nitrous psid, - - " . * 



Pro«nres3 of American Science — Comparison between American and 



194 

 197 



European Geology, . - - - - 



Delaware Society — Electrical attraction, - - - 198 



Fermenting Pond, 



Optical Trap — Conducting power in relation to radiant matter, 

 Spontaneous combustion, - - - , - 



199 

 200 

 202 



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