Notices respecting New Books. 79 



notices of several useful books; formulse of various authors; 

 Corrections of the solar and lunar tables ; and a method to 

 find the configurations of the satellites. 



. We there find observations of Messrs.Yidal,Fiauguergues, 

 Scarpellini, Humboldt, and a memoir of M. de Prony upon 

 the calculation of the spheroids, and the elements of the 

 three last comets. 



[To be continued.] 



_ XL Notices respecting N^eiu Books. 



Philosophical Transactions of the Roycd Society of London, 

 for the Year ISO/. Part I. 



Xhis part contains the follov/ing papers : — 1. The Bakc- 

 rian Lecture, on some Chemical Agencies of Electricity. 

 By Humphry Davy, Esq. F.R.S. M.R.LA.— H. On" the 

 Precession of the Equinoxes. By the Rev. Abram Robert- 

 son, M.A. F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Geometry in the 

 University of Oxford. — HL An Account of two Children 

 born with Cataracts in their Eyes, to show that their Sight 

 was obscured in very different Degrees ; with Experiments 

 to determine the proportional Knowledge of Objects acquired 

 by them immediately after the Cataracts w^re removed. By 

 Everard Home, Lsq. F.R.S. — iV. Observations on the Struc- 

 ture of the diiferent Cavities which constitute the Stomach 

 of the Whale, compared with those of ruminating Animals, 

 with a View to ascertain the Situation of the digestive Organ. 

 By Everard Home, Esq. F.R.S. — V. On the Formation of 

 the Bark of Trees. In a Letter from T. A. Knight, Esq. 

 F.R.S. to the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. 

 K.B. P.R.S. &c. — VL An Investigation of the general Term 

 of an important Series in the inverse Method of finite Dif- 

 ferences. By the Piev. .John Brinklcy, D.D. F.R.S., and 

 Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of 

 Dublin. 



Ai'i'CxNDix. — Meteorological Journal kept at the Apart- 

 ments of llie Royal Society, by Order of the President and 

 Council, 



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