396 Palermo. 
58. Atomic Weights of Bodies. 
Extract of a letter dated Glasgow, November 2, 1820, frow 
Thomas Thomson Regius, Professor of Chemistry 
in the University of Glasgow, &c. &c. to the Editor. 
I have but little scientific news to communicate to you. 
Little is doing at present in “chemistry, either in this coun- 
try, or on the continent of Europ am at present en- 
gaged ina set of experiinents, to determine the true atomic 
weights of bodies with mathematical accuracy, and I have 
Iready made considerable progress. A first paper on the 
subject has just appeared in the annals for November, @ 
second will appear in the January number. Having this 
winter a course of clinical lectures to deliver, and being 
anxious to take the opportunity of investigating more exact- 
ly than has been done, the state of the urine in various dis- 
eases, I shall be a to eee ete 2 oy experiments for 
the winter. —— shall res cio ner ext May. As soon 
as Ihave completed this investigation 1 shall bave it in my 
59. Palermo. 
Extract ie a letter to the Editor from Mr. William 7 
a mac the American Asylum for the ve and 
Dumb, i Barary 3 a) dees: Palermo. 
stu ) attend ch The professors are su ported 
pthiefunds now much ecvtntgsdt win 4 apes A 
’ the I st Palace is the 0 : ' der the direction of 
deb a =the se beatin: te 
n presente him to the University 
ate by was the Professor. ira to have cost him 
two years labour. Tt seems. to be about three feet in di- 
ameter and revolves horizontally in an iron frame, fixed on 
