CONTENTS. m 



PagP 



Pink Sediments of Urine. 11. Test for Olive Oil. 12. 

 Purification of Water. 13. New Vegetable Alkalies — 

 Brucine. 14. Delphine. 15. Analysis of Zinc Ores, by 

 Mr. Cooper 1 77 



III. Natural Histoky. 



§ Mineralogy, Medicine, Sfc. 



1 . Native Iron. 2. Supposed Meteoric Iron, at Aix-la- 

 Chapelle. 3. Micaceous Iron Ore. 4. Nitre Caves of Mis- 

 sotiri. 5. Hot Springs of Ouachitta, (Washitaw). 6. Burn- 

 ing Spring. 7. Height of Monte Rosa. 8, Temperature 

 beneath the Earth's Surface. 9. Formation of an Island. 



10. Dr. Wilson PhUip's Experiments. 11. New Febrifuge. 



12. Remedy for the Plague 193 



§ Meteorology, Electricity, Sfc. 



1. Meteorological Prize Question. 2. Conductors for 

 Lightning. 3. Red Snow of the Alps, from the neighbour- 

 hood of St. Bernard. 4, 5. Coloured Rain. 6. Fall of Black 

 Powder from the Air. 7. Temperature in India. 8. Fall- 

 ing Stars. 9. Earthquakes. 10. Insulation of Electricity. 



11. Illumination by Electricity. 12. Meteorology. 13. Au- 

 rora Boreaiis , 199 



IV. General Literature. 

 %, Antique Silver Cup in America. 2. University of 

 Bonne. 3. Lancastrian Schools. 4. Schools in Paris. 



5. Comparative Strength of Europeans and Savages. 



6. State of the Population of Paris, for 1818. 7. Death 

 of Dr. Rutherford. 8. Petrarch. 9. Bristol Literary and 

 Philosophical Institution. 10. Liverpool Museum. 11. Ob- 

 Bcrvations on Bats. 12. On the Use of Oxen in Agricul- 

 ture 210 



XVII. Meteorological Diary for December 1819, and Ja- 

 nuary and February 1820 219 



Select List of New Publications 220 



ERRATUM. 



Puge 81, iu the heading of the Pap«r, omit, " and on the Error! in Longitude pro- 

 duced by the aetiou ul Iron iu SUips upon Chronometers." 



