CONTENTS. 



On the AUeralion which Sklphnric Acid experiences in aclhig 

 upon Alcohol. 295,359 



Anatomical Preparations. . . . . . • • • 298 



On the alleged Plagiarisms of Frenchmen ; on the Originality 

 of the muiical Instrument culled the Sirene; and on the Pitch 

 and Scale, of the Notes of a French Standard Harmonica, 



/ V)hich are said to have been ascertained thereby. .. 321 



Strata of the Environs of St. Petershurgh, in the Order of Geo- 

 logical Position. .. ».■ .. •• '•• 323 



On the Management of Bees. . .. .. .. ... ?^ 



Method of preventing and curing the Dry Rot in Ship Timber. 



Remarks on the,^' Proposal for establishing a more correct Ac- 

 count or Civil Time ;" with a Suggestion for a still more 

 correct Account. . . . . . . • . • • 350 



Letter from Mr. Caviglia to the Editor of the ' Journal des 

 Voyages.' .. .. ,. .. .. ,.351 



Reply by Mr. P. J. Brown to the Answer of a Correspondent 

 on Professor Jamesoh's System of Mineralogy. .. 352 



Account of the Importation into France of the Cachemire-wool 

 Goat. , .. ..355 



Remarks on an important Error in a Table for computing local 

 Attraction, circulated by Order of the Board of Longitude. 



357 



Account of the Origin of the Art of manufacturing Tin Plate. 



366 



Account of a Visit to the Crater of the Volcano Goenong Apie, 

 one of the Islands of Banda. .. . . . . . . 37 1 



Account of the Fall of the Glacier of the IVeisshnrn, which 

 happened on the 27th of December 1819, and tlie Destruction 

 of the Village of Randa, in the Valley of Vi^pach. 375 



Memoir zipon Zircon. . . . . . . • • • • 377 



Free Remarks on Mr. Greenongh's Geological Map. . . 379 



On the apparent Place of tlie Pole-Slar. .. .. 401 



An Essay on the Reflection, Refraction, and Inflection of Light ; 

 on the Colours of thin transparent Plates; and a new Theory 

 of Vision 417 



