CONTENTS. Jii 



Page 



4. Researches on the Gluten of Wheat, by Dr. G. Taddei 



— Process to obtain the Gluidine — Properties of Gloidine. 



5. On Zimoma. 6. Gluten an Antidote for Corrosive 

 Sublimate. J. New Vegetable Alkali — Piperine. 8. 

 Specific Heat of Gases. 9. On Cadmium, by J. G. Chil- 

 dren, Esq. 10. Preparation of Nitrate of Silver. 11. Urate 

 of Ammonia Calculi. 12. Properties of Lithia. 13. Sulphate 

 of Magnesia. 14. Test for Copper and Iron. 15. Proper- 

 ties of Native Naphtha. l6". New Animal Soap. 17. Ox- 

 alate of Potash and Manganese. 18. Platinum Leaf. I9. 

 Evolution of Heat by Freezing. 20. Formation of Succinic 

 Acid. 21. Assay of the Soda of Commerce. 22. Chemistry 

 applied to Industrious Economy. 23. Red Fire 392 



III. Natural History. 



§ Mineralogy, Geology, S^c. 



1. Carbonate of Iron. 2. Conite. 3. Tin Mines of 

 Banca. 4. Captain Bagnold on the Water-spout. 5. Ac- 

 count of the Formation of the Island of Sabrina off St. 

 Michael. 6. Height of Monte Rosa. 7. New Island off 

 Cape Horn 



§ Medicine. 



1. On the use of Prussic Acid in Consumptive Cases. 



2. Medical Prize Questions 418 



§ Meteorology, Magnetism, ^c. 

 1. On the Cold which occurs at Sun-rise, and on Nitre in 

 Plants. 2. Heat at Bagdad. 3. Evaporation of Ice. 4. 

 Nature of Hail. 5. Recession of the Magnetic Needle. 

 6. Earthquake in Cork. 7. Prize Question— Variation of 

 the Compass. 8. Animal Magnetism. 9. Fall of a Glacier, 421 



IV. General Literature. 

 1. Literary Prize Questions. 2. Printing in Otaheitc. 



3. Literature in New South Wales. 4. New Arabic 

 Grammar. 5. Oxford and Cambridge Universities. 

 6. Prospectus of an Expedition into Africa. 7. New Voyage 

 of Discovery in the North. 8. Expedition of Discovery in 

 America 426' 



XV. Meteorological Diary for the Months of March, April 



and May, 1 820 43 1 



Quarterly List of New Publications 432 



In'dkx. 



