368 Royal Society. 



intended to comprise the rare, curious, and valuable articles 

 in ev'ery department of Art, Science, and Literature, con- 

 tained in that great Repository. This work, so generally 

 inteiesiing, may be expected to appear earlv in Julv, when 

 we have no doubt it will be received with the favour so ac- 

 ceptable an ofilring deserves. 



Mr. Thomas Fi.rsler has in the press, Researches con- 

 cernina; atmospheiic PhrBnomena, in one volume, Svo. 



Mr. Bakewell's Introduction to Geology will appear early 

 in June. 



Projiessor Leslie, of Edinburgh, has in the press a valu- 

 able work " On the Relations of Air to Heat and Moisture." 



LIX. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



April 29. — JL HE Society met after the holidays. The 

 Earl of Morton in the chair; when the reading of a paper 

 on the Alcohol of Sulphur, or Sulphuret of Carbon, by 

 Professor Berzelius of Stockholm, and Dr. Marcet of 

 LondN)n, was read, which, together with an Appendix bv 

 Professor Berzelius, occupied three successive meetings of 

 the Society. 



The series of experiments related in this paper were per- 

 formed in the months of July, August, and September last, 

 during Professor Berzelius's stay in this country, and the 

 leading; points of the inquiry were then ascertamed. The 

 singular oily liquid which is the object of these experiments 

 was discovered in tTQ*? bv Lampadius, and has since been 

 the subject of much speculation and experimental contro- 

 versv. indeed there arc few substances the analysis ot 

 which has given rise to so much diversity of opinion, as 

 the alcohol of sulphur. Lampadius believed it to be a 

 fomp(HU\d of sulpliur and hvdroaen. Clement and Des- 

 ormes considered it as a coinbinaiion of sulphur and char- 

 coal ; Eerthoilet, as a triple compound of sulphur, charcoal, 

 and hvdrogen ; and Berthollet junior, as well as Davy, 

 adopted the opinion of liampadius. In Fratice, very re- 

 cently, Mr. Cluzel, from an elaborate scries of experiments, 

 concluded that the alcohol of sulphur consisted of sulphur, 

 carbon, hydrogen, and azote ; but Messrs. Berihollet, The- 

 n.ird, and X'auquelin, the reporters of Mr. Cluzel's inquiry, 

 having mndc som(^ experiments of their own upon the sub- 

 ject, concluded ih;it the liquid in question was a compound 



