CONTENTS. 



XXXITL Descrlpf'ton of an Apparahis for CurvU'mear 

 Sailing. By John Trotter, Esq -^^^^ 207 



XXXIVC Description of Mr. James Hardie's Iniprcved 

 Bookbinder's Cutting- Press .. .. ^20S 



XXXV. Acco2int of the Fall of Part of the Rosenberg 

 Mountain, in September 1 806. By the Rev. Mr. Buck- 

 minster, of Boston, North America, hut then residing 

 in Switzerland 209 



XXXVI. Description of an Improved Stove for Heating 

 Rooms, or Drying different Articles. By Mr. George 

 Field ' 2ia 



XXXVII. Nctu Observations on Volcanoes and their Lava, 

 %G.A.DeLuc 219 



XXXVIII. Sotne Particulars respecting the Geography ^ 

 Natural Productions, and PJistory of the Crimea 22/ 



XXXIX. Thirty-fourth Communication from Dr. Thorn- 

 ton, relative to Pneumatic Medicine 234 



XL. Report of Surgical Cases in the City Dispe?isary, 

 Grocers- Plall- Court, poultry, from tiie \st of January to 

 the QSth of February 1 807 ; with Remarks on the Pro- 

 priety of establishing a Fund, to be connected ivith cha- 

 ritable Institutions, for the Relief of the Ruptured Poor. 

 By John Taunton, Surgeon to the City a?id Finsbury 

 Dispensaries, ami Lecturer on Anatomy, Surgery, &?c. 



236 



XLI. On improved Sheep by the Spanish Mixture ; their 

 IVool, and its Falue in Superfine Cloth, ^'c. By C. H. 

 Parry, M.D. F.R.S .. .... 239 



XLI I. Present State of the Art of Painting in France. By 

 T. C. Bruxn Neergaj:rdt, Member of the Freuch hi- 

 stitute 246 



XLIII. Upon the Preparation of Indigo for obtaining Blue 

 Colours for print i /I cr Calicoes 259 



XLIV. Letter of M.Veau de Launav, M.D. to M. De- 

 LAMETHj^KiK, vp07i the Pfoduction of the Muriatic Acid 

 ly means of GaLvanisni 260 



XLV. Letter from W. Thornton, Esq. to the Members of 

 the North Carolina Gold JSEine Company . . . . 261 . 



XLV I. Notices respecting New Books 265 



XL\ II. Proceedings of Learned Societies .. .. 269-.. 



Xl^\ in. Intellignue arid Miscellaneous Articles 281 — 286 



XLIX. Letter from. Ezekiri. XValker, F'.srj. containing 

 J art her Remarks on his neiu Transit Instrument . . 287 ' 



L. On the Utility of making Family IVines from several 

 of our Garden Fruits, especially for benevolent Uses, 

 "^i^xt I acted from an Address, on different Topics, to the 



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