COJ^TENTS. 



iinguisliiiig accidental Fires in Ships. By Alexander 

 TiLLOCHf Read before the Askesian Society in December 



1 SOI -97 



XM. Memoir on the Natural History of the Coco-nut Tree 

 and the Areca-mit Tree ; the Cultivation of tliem accord- 

 ing to the Methods of the Hindoos ; their Productions, 

 and their Utility in the Arts and for the Purposes of do- 

 mestic Economy . By M. Le Goux de Flaix, an Officer 

 of Engineers, and Member of the Asiatic Society at Cal- 

 cutta 110 



XVII. Experiments on preserving Potatoes. By J. De 

 Lancey, Esq. of the Island of Guernsey 117 



XVI II. Processes for preparing Lalie from Madder . By 

 Sir H. C. Englefield, Bart 118 



XIX. Anew Process for separating Gold and Silver from 

 the laser Metals 1 25 



XX. Tu'cniy-ftrst Communication from Dr. Thornton, 

 relative to Pneumatic Medicine 126 



XXI. Communication from Mr. Ince, Surgeon, relative to 

 Pneumatic Medicine _128 



XXII. Extract of a Memoir on the Temperature of the IVater 

 of the Sea, loth at the Surface and at different Depths, 

 along the Shores and at a Distance from the Coast. By 

 31. F. Perox, Naturalist on the French Expedition to 

 New Holland 129 



XXIII. An Analysis of the viagnetical Pyrites; u it h Re- 

 marks on some of the other Sulphurets of Iron. By 

 Charles Hatchett, Esq. F.R.S 133 



XXIV. Ohservations on the Change of some of the proximate 

 Principles of Vegetables into Bitumen ; with analytical 

 Experiments on a peculiar Substance which is found with 

 the Bovey Coal. By Charles Hatchett, Esq. F.R.S. 



147 



XXV. Experiments and Reflections of Dr. Joachim Car- 

 RADORi DE Prato ou the apparent Repulsion between 

 some Kinds of Fluids observed by Draparnaud .... 154 



XXVI. A new Electrical Phcenomenon. Communicated by 

 a Correspondent 162 



XXVII. Wright on measuring the Meridian — Wright, 

 Wren and Wilkins on an Universal Measure — .T.Bap- 

 TISTA Porta on the Re/lection of Heat, Cold and Sound 

 from concave Mirrors 1 63 



XXVIII. A new Process for rendering Platina malleable. 

 By Alexander Tilloch. Read before the Jlskesian 

 Society in the Session 1 8(.t4-5 175 



XXIX. Description of an improved Mill for grinding 



Painters' 



