Notices respecting New Books. 73 



P. S. It is my intention to make some observations on 

 this case in a subsequent Report. 



In .the last Report, p. 363, for 1007 read 1^64. 



XIII. Notices respecting New Booh. 



JL ART I. of tlie Philosophical Transactions for 1808 has 

 made its appearance. The following are its contents : 



1 , 'I'he Bakerian Lecture, on some new Phsenomena of 

 chemical Changes produced by Electricity, particularly the 

 Decomposition of the fixed Alkalis, and the Exhibition of 

 the new Substances which constitute their Bases ; and on the 

 general Nature of alkaline Bodies. By Humphry Davy, Esq. 

 Sec. R.S. M.R.I.A.— 2. On the Structure and Uses of the 

 Spleen. By Everard Home, Esq. F.R.S. — 3. On the Com- 

 position of the Compound Sulphuret from Huel Boys, and 

 an Account of its Crystals. By James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S. 

 ^-4. On Oxalic Acid. By Thomas Thomson, M.D.F.R.S. 

 Ed. Communicated by Charles Hatchett, Esq. F.R.S. — = 

 5. On Super-acid and Sub-acid Salts. By William Hyde 

 Wollaston, M.D. Sec. R.S.— 6. On the Inconvertibility of 

 Bark into Alburnum. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 

 F.R.S. In a Letter to the Right Flon. Sir Joseph Banks, 

 Bart. K.B.P.R.S. — 7. Some Account of Cretinism. Ey 

 Henry Reeve, M.D. of Norwich. Communicated by Wil- 

 liam Hyde Wollaston, M.D. Sec. R.S.— 8. On a new Pro- 

 perty of the Tangents of the three Angles of a Plane Trian- 

 gle. By Mr. William Garrard, Quarter Master of Instruc- 

 tion at the Royal Naval Asylum at Greenwich. Communi- 

 cated by the Astronomer Royal. — y. On a new Property of 

 the Tangents of three Arches trisecting the Circumference 

 of a Circle. By Nevil Maskeline, D.D. F.R.S. and Astro- 

 nomer Royal. — IQ. An Account qf the Application of the 

 Gas from Coal to oeconoinical Purposes. By Mr. William 

 Murdoch. Communicated by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph 

 Banks, Bart. KB. P. R.S — 11. Further Ex perimeiits op the 

 Spleen. By Everard Home, Esq, F.R.S. 



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