CONTENTS 



OF 



THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 

 No. XVIIL 



Art. l>age 



I. A Sketch of the History of Alchemy. By W. T. 

 Brande, Esq. Sec. R. S. and Prof. Chem. R. 1 225 



II. Remarks on the Code des Midicamens ou Pharmacopec 

 Fran^aise. By R. Phillips, Esq. F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c. 239 



III. Some Observations relating; to the Secretins; Power of 

 Animals, in a Letter to the Editor. By A. P. W. Philip, 

 M.D., F.R.S.E., &c 251 



IV. Description of a New Apparatus for the Combustion of 



the Diamond 264 



V. Description of Two New Birds of the Genus Ptero- 

 glossus, of liliger. By W. Swainson, F.L.S., M.W.S . . 266 



VI. Meteorological Journal, shewing the Quantity and 

 Pressure of the Aqueous Atmosphere, three times in the 

 day. By J. F. Daniell, Esq. F.R.S., M.R.I 268 



VII. A Biographical Memoir of Aiithur Young, Esq. 

 F.R.S., &c. Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, from 

 original documents furnished by his own Memoranda. By 

 .1. A. Paris, M.D,, F.L.S., M.R.I., Fellow of the Royal 

 College of Physicians, Honorary Member of the Board of 

 Agriculture, &c , 27.0 



VIM. Select Orchidcic from the Cape of (.iood Hope ,... ;310 



