Kbyal Society of London. 89 



called coodwn nagoo) was made to bite the coult'iah oti the 

 belly : both tangs visibly acted ; blood aypcaivd on the 

 wound, but no other consequence follow cd. A tar ttilta 

 bitten immediately after in the same manner, died withlii 

 two hours. 



Chickens and pigeons bitten by a cobra de capello, whose 

 fangs had been eradicated, suffered no symptoms of poison ; 

 but when poison taken from the same snake was inserted 

 into their bodies, either by incision or puncture, they suf- 

 fered the usual symptoms, and very often died. 



Mr. Jameson, author of the Mineralogy of the Scottish 

 Isles, is about to put to the press a work entitled "A Natu- 

 ral History of Fossils, according to the System of the cele- 

 brated Professor Werner, of Freyberg." As Mr. .Jameson 

 studied two years under this illustrious naturalist, he hopes 

 to be able to present to the public a work free from the 

 errors and imperfections of Wiedemann, Ennnerling, and 

 Brochaut. 



XVI. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



JL HE following is a short account of experiments on the 

 absorption of different gases by water, at different tempera- 

 tures, and under different pressures, made by Mr. William 

 Hemy, and communicated to the Society. The processes 

 were carried on by means of instruments invented by the 

 author; plates and descriptions of which are annexed to the 

 account of the experiments. 



Mr. Cavendish, in pursuing his first experiments in pneu- 

 matic chemistry, ascertained many of the circumstances 

 t)f the absorption of i-urbonic acid gas by water ; and Dr. 

 Priestley had noticed the relations of this absorption to 

 pressure: more lately, the manufacture of *|;tilicial gaseous 

 waters has called the attention of many chemists to this 

 part of the subject ; but the power of combination of other 

 aeriform lluids witli water, and the manner in which this 

 power is iriodiHed by different causes, have been but little 

 studied. 



jVIr. Henry, in the first part of the detail of his experi- 

 ments, states, that the (|iiantity (.>f carbonic acid gas absorbed 

 hy water, is iniluenced materially by the qiiantily of com- 

 nu>li air, which may be either combined w ilh the water, or 



mixed 



