TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



No. XIII.— January, 1830. 



PAGK 



I. Life of the Rev. John Flamsteed, First Astronomer-Royal. 



Written by himself, concluded • . 1 



II. An Account of the process of making Spirits in Great 



Britain and Ireland, continued. With a Copper-plate . 25 



III. Alcohol and its Compounds 37 



IV. On the Action of Flashes of Light upon Rapidly Rotating 



Disks. By Charles Tomlinson, Esq 41 



V. On Madder, and Madder Dyeing, continued 44 



VI. On the method of determining the proportions of Potash 



and Soda when the two alkalies are mixed together. 



By Thomas Thomson, M. D., F. R. S., &c 56 



VII. On the number and character of the Colours that enter 



into the Composition of White Light. By Paul Cooper, 

 Esq. With a Plate 58 



VIII. Analyses of Books 64 



1 . Outlines of Mineralogy, Geology, and Mineral Analysis. 



By Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S., &c, 2 vols. 1836 ib. 



2. The Agricultural and Horticultural Annual for 1836 . 71 



3. Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a 

 Second Voyage in the Victory, &c. By John Braith- 

 waite . . . . • 73 



4. Tabulae Anemologicse, or Tables of the Winds, exhibit- 

 ing a new method of registering the direction of the 

 wind, &c. By W. R. Birt ib. 



IX. Scientific Intelligence 74 



1 . Proceedings of the Ashmolean Society of Oxford . . ib. 



2. Gastric Juice 78 



3. Benzoyle, Benzimide, and Benzoine ib. 



4. Deaths of Signior Nobili and Dr. Strom^yer .... 79 

 Meteorological Journal. By the Rev. John Wallace . 80 



No. XIV. — February. 



I. Memoir of John Napier, Baron of Merchiston. By M. Biot 81 



II. On the number and character of the Colours that enter into 



the Composition of White Light. By Paul Cooper, 

 Esq., concluded 94 



III. Water of the Elton, Dead and Caspian Seas .... 103 



IV. The action of Isinglass in clearing Malt Liquors ex- 



plained. By Mr. Samuel Roberts 105 



V. Notice of some Recent Improvements in Science . . . .110 



1. Acoustics ib. 



2. Optics 114 



3. Electricity and Magnetism 129 



4. Heat 135 



VI. Chemical Analysis of Tabasheer. By Thomas Thomson, 



M. D., F. R. S., &c 132 



VII. On Madder, and Madder Dyeing, concluded .... 135 



VIII. Case of Anomalous Cutaneous Disease. By J. Carson, 

 Jun., M. D 141 



IX. Comparative Success of Lithotrity and Lithotomy . . . 143 



X. Analyses of Books 145 



