Vol.55. Philosophical Magazine. May 1820. 



Contents OF Number 265. Page. 



L. On the alleged plagiarisms of Frerichmen : on the Ori- 



Iginality of the musical Instrumfnt called the Siiene, and on 



'the Pitch and Scale of the Notes of a French Standard Har- 



nica, which are said to have been ascertairfed thereby. 



By Mr. John Farey Sen. - - - - i321 



LI.' Strata of the Environs of St. Petersburg, in the Order' 

 of Geological Position. - - - - '323 



' LIT. On the Management of Bees. By I. EspjNAssE,Esq. 329 



LIII. Catalogue of Ancient Eclipses, w^Ith the Dates of ' 

 their correspondihg Eclipses at one and two- Periods Di^ 

 stance. With Remarks. By Mr. Thom.is Yeates. - 344 



LIV. Method of preventing and curing the Dry Rot in 

 I Ship Timber. By Ambrose Bowden, Esq. - ' -348 



LV. Remai-ks on the " Proposal for establishing a more 

 correct Account of Civil Time," published in our last Num- 

 ber ; with a Suggestion for a still more correct Account. 

 By Mr. James Utting, of Lynn Regis.- - - - 350 1 



LVL Letter from Mr. Caviglia to the Editor of the 

 (' Journal' des Voyages.' - - - -351 



LVn. Reply bj Mr. P. J. Brown to the Answei- of a; 

 1 Correspondent on Professor Jameson's System of Mmera- 

 'logy. - - - --..,. .'■362 



LVin. Account of the Jraportatioii into, France of the 

 [ Cachemire-wool Goat, extracted from a Memoir on this 

 Subject read to the Royal Academy of Sciences, Sept. 1819. 355 



LIX. Remarks on an important Errpr in a Table for 

 icomputing local Attraction, circulated by Order of the 

 Board of Longitude. - ... 357 j 



LX. On the Alteration which Sulphuric Acid expe- 

 ' riences in acting upon Alcohql. - - - 359 i 



LXL Account of the Origin of the Art of manufactur- 

 ing Tin-Plate. By Samuel ParkesjF.L.S. - - 366 



LXII. Account of a Visit to the Crater of the Volcanp, -* 

 I Goenoiig Apie, one of the Islands of-Banda. By Captain 

 [Verheul. - - - -. - 371 



LXIlL Account of the Fall of the Glacier of the Weiss- -' 

 I horn, which h.ippened on the 27th of December 1819, and 

 ' the Destruction of the Village of Randa, in the Valley of 

 iVibpach. - .- -- - 375' 



LXIV. Merr.oir upon Zircon. By M. Chevreux. 377 



LXV. Free Remarks on Mr. Greenough's Geological 

 Map, lately published under the Direction of the Geologi- 

 ! cal Society of London. By Mr. John Farey Senior, Mj- 

 ^neral Surveyor. , ' - - - . - 379] 



LXVI. proceedings of Learned Societies. - - 383 



LXVII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 3S9-400! 



RICUARO AND ARTHUR TAYLOR^ PR,INTERS, SHOE LANB, lONB)ON. 



