CONTENTS. 



XV. The Buker'ian Lecture, on some Chemical Agencies 

 . of Electiiclly. By Humphry Davy, Esq. F. R. S. 



M.R.I.A. : Page 104 



XVr. On the Dislocations of the Scrala of the Earth. By 



ilir. John Farev 120 



XVII. History of yhtronomy for the It ear I80G. By Je- 



ROME DK LaLAXDE 121 



XVni. Problems on the Reduction of Angles. By T. S. 

 Evans, F.L.S., of the Royal Military Academy, IFool- 

 u'icli 129 



XIX. On the Stanhope Tempcrumeni of the Musical Scale. 

 By Mr. .loH^ Farey 140 



XX. A Letter to His Royal PTiglmcss the Duke of Cumber- 

 land, from Dr. J. \V. Callcott, respecting the Stan- 

 hope Temperament : with a Letter from Ear/ Stanhope 

 to Dr. Callcott upon that Suljcct. 



XXI. Cursory Strictures on Modern Art, and particularly 

 Sculpture, in England, previous to the Establishment of 

 the Rmjal Academy. By J. Fla-hm an, Esq. .. 152 



XXII. Observations of the PI and lately discovered by Dr. 

 Oluers, ivhich he has siuce named Vesta, reduced to 

 the Mean Times at the ^leridianof the Royal Observa- 

 tory at Greenwich ; with their Geocentric Longitudes and 

 Latitudes. Communicated by T. Firminger, Esq. 

 Asnst. R.O.G .••.•• •• . 161 



XXIII. On the Decompoulinn of Light into its most simple 

 Elements, being Part if a IVork upon Colours. By C. A. 

 Phieur, late a Colonel in the Corp^ of Engineers 162 



XXIV. On the Alkalies of Commerce, and on the least ex- 

 pensive Process for ascertaining their commercial Value by 

 Means of the Instrvment called the ylJ kali-meter. Read 

 la the Academy of Roucn, 5 Thermidor, An. 13, by 

 i\/. Deschoizillks 5e7z/o;- I71 



XXV. Notices respecting New Books 178 



XXV'I. Proceedings of Learned Societies 184 



XXVIT, InfelUgence, and Miscellaneous Articles .. 189 

 XX VI 11. Essay upon the yht of the Foundry among the An- 



tients : with some Remarks upon the celebrated Horses of 

 Cliio, now brought from Venice to Paris. By M. Skitz 



193 

 XXIX. An ylccount of two Children bor^i with. Cataracts in 

 their Eyes, to show that their SJght tvas obscured in very 

 difcrcnt Degrees ; with Experiments to deterinine the pro- 

 portional Knowledge of Objects acquired by them immedi- 

 ately after the Cataracts were removed. By Everard 



l]vy\-E:, Esq. F. R. S. ■ 203 



XXX. On 



