J v CONTENTS. 



I' AGE 



1. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of 



London, for 1835. Part II 145 



2. The American Journal of Science and Arts, for July, 



August and September, 1835 149 



3. The Doctrine of Proportion, or Geometrical Admeasure- 



ment, by similar Triangles, ccc. London, 1836 . . 153 



XI. Scientific Intelligence . 1D- 



1 . Pharmaceutical Preparations *. 



2 Progress of Science • • ^J* 



3. Carices common to North America and Great Britain . ib. 



4. Royal Institution, 22nd January. Dr Faraday on sili- 



cified Fossils 155 



5. Action of Acids upon Sugar 1^6 



6. Chlorobenzine and Chlorobenzide 157 



7. Silica in Plants _ ib - 



8. Antimonial Copper Glance, a New Mineral .... 158 



9. Metamorphosis of Plants 1D - 



New Books ft- 



Horary Observations of the Barometer, &c. . . . 159 



Meteorological Journal. By the Rev. John Wallace . 160 



No. XV.— March. 



I. Memoir of John Napier, Baron of Merchiston. By J. B. 



Biot, concluded 161 



II. Observations on the Atomic Weights of Bodies. By Tho- 



mas Thomson, M. D., F. R. S., &c 179 



III. Experiments and Observations on Visible Vibration. By 



Charles Tomlinson, Esq 194 



IV. Observations on Zoophytes, and Plants confounded with 



them. By H. F. Link, Professor of Botany at Berlin 200 



IV. On a Vegeto-Calcareous Hvdrate, produced from Byssus 



Floccosa. By Robert D.' Thomson, M. D. ... 207 



V. The Art of Dyeing 209 



VI. Action of Ammonia and Muriatic Acid. By Robert J. 



Kane,M.D 218 



VII. Notice of some Recent Improvements in Science . . 220 

 Heat and Light ib. 



VIII. Analyses of Books . • 224 



1. Philosophical Transactions of the Roval Societv of Lon- 

 don, for 1835, Part II ' . . . ib. 



2. Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus, fa- 

 miliarly illustrated, &c. By the Rev. William Ritchie, 

 LL. D., F. R. S., &c 230 



IX. Scientific Intelligence 232 



1 . On the Arrangement of Mineral Collections ... ib. 



2. Anecdote of a Bee 235 



3. Calcareo Sulphate of Barytes 236 



4. Influence of the Moon on the Barometer .... ib. 

 Summary of Observations on the Barometer, Hygrometer, &c 237 

 Meteorological Journal for January. By the Rev. J. Wal- 

 lace ' 238 



No. XVI.— April. 



I. Memoir of Dr. Thomas Young. By M. Arago . . 241 



