C N T E N T.S. 



[t A Jhort View of the Objervations which have been made at 

 different Times on the. Luminous Appearance of the Sea, 

 Read in the Phyfical Socilty of Gottingcn, by J. G. L. 

 Blum h off - - P Q g e 97 



On the Submerjion of Swallows in Autumn - 107 



A cheap and ejfficacioui Method for defraying Rats and 

 Mice ; recommended to the Agriculture Society of Man- 

 chejler by Mr. C. Taylor, Secretary to the Society for 

 the Encouragement of Arts, Manujadiures, and Commerce 



118 



An Examination of St. Pierre's Hypothecs refpecling the 

 Caufe of the Tides, which, in oppojttion to the received 

 Theory t attributes them to fuppofed periodical LffnJio?is of 

 the Polar Ices. By Samuel Woods, EJ'q. Read before 

 the Afkfan Society November 5, 1799 - 134, 267 



Account of a new Operation lately peifonned with Succefs in 

 France, for reforing Sight in certain Cafes oj Blindnefs. 

 By C. Demours - 148 



On the Cultivation and life of the Syrian Silk-Plant. By 

 J. A. Holler, Director of the JVeftphalian Patriotic 

 Society - - 149 



On Jevcral new Properties difcovered in phofphorifed Hy- 

 drogen Gas. By C. Raymond, Prof for of Chcmijlry 

 in the Central School of Ardeche - - 154 



On the general Nature tf Light. By Mr. Robert Heron. 



161 



Some Account of Frederick Augustus Eschen, who. 

 was fwallowed up in a Piffurc of the Snow in the Glacier 

 of Buet - - - - 164 



On the Difcovery of that Salt known under the Name of 

 Seignctte's Salt {Tar trite of Soda). By Prof-ffor Beck- 



MANN - - 166 



On the Proportions of Charcoal, or Oxyd of Carbon, contained 

 in certain Kinds oj Wood and in Pit- Coal ; and on a Car- 

 buret of Sulphur newly difcovered. By M. Proust 169 

 Letter frvni A. M. Vasalli-Eandi to J. Buvina, Pro- 

 fefjor of Medicine in the Utiiverjity of Turin, on Animal 

 Electricity - - - 171 



• Of Chemical and Mineralogical Nomenclature. By Richard, 

 KirwanJ LL.D. F.M.S. and P.R.I. A. 172, 209 



A fhort friew of the new Electrical Experiments performed by 

 Dr. Van Marum - 193, 313 



Refections on the Theoiy of the Infnit efmal Calculus. By 

 C. Carnot, Ex-Director of tie French Republic, Mini/let 

 ffWar, and Member tf the National Inftilute, Paris 1797. 



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