Notices respecting New Books. 385 



as mechanical Agents. By Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. — On 

 Fluid Chlorine: On the Condensation of several Gases into 

 Liquids, j^y M. Faraday, Esq. — On the Motions of the Eye, 

 in illustration of the Uses of the Muscles and Nerves of the 

 Orbit. By Charles Bell, Esq. — An Account of tui Apparatus 

 on a peculiar Construction for performing Electro-magnetic Ex- 

 periments. I'y W. II. Pepys, Esq. — Ois the Temperature at 

 considerable Depths of the Caribbean Sea. By Captain Ed- 

 ward K^^al^ine. — Letter from Captain Basil Hall to Captain 

 Kater on Experiments made by him and Henry Foster, Esq., 

 with an invariable Pendulum in London, and in different Parts 

 of the Globe. — Account of Experiments made with an invari- 

 able Pendulum at New South Wales, By Major-General 

 Sir Thomas Brisbane. — Observations and Experiments on the 

 daily Variation of the horizontid and dipping Needles under 

 a reduced directive P(jwer. By Peter Barlow, Esq. — On 

 diurnal Deviations of the horizontal Needle when under the 

 Influence of Magnets. By S. H. Christie, Esq. — On Fossil 

 Shells. By L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. — On the apparent Mag- 

 netism of metallic Titanium. By W. Hyde Woilaston, Esq. — 

 *An Account of the Effect of mercurial Vapours on the Crew 

 of His .Majesty's Ship Triumph, in the Year 1810. By 

 Wm. Burnett, M.D. — On the astronomical Refractions. By 

 J. Ivory, Esq. — Observations on Air found in the Pleura, in 

 a Case of Pneumato-thorax. By John Davy, M.D. — On 

 Bitumen hi Stones. By the Right Hon. George Knox. — 

 On certain Changes which appear to have taken place in the 

 Positions of some of the principal fixed Stars. By John 

 Pond, Esq. 



Part III. of the Fifth Volume of the Horticultural Trans- 

 actions has just been published. The following are its contents: 



Observations on the Flat Peach of China : An Account of 

 the injurious Influence of the Plum-stock upon the Moorpark 

 Apricot: An Account of some Mule Plants: An Account of 

 an improved Method of obtaining early Crops of Peas, after 

 severe Winters. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. President. 

 — On the Cultivation of Mesembrtjanthemwiis. By Mr. William 

 Mowbray. — On the Cultivation of the English Cranberry 

 {Oxi/coccus palustris) in dry Beds. By Mr. Thomas Milne. — 

 On the Management of Cauliflower Plants, to secure good 

 Produce during the Winter. By Mr. George Cockburn. — 

 On the Cultivation of the Tetragonia cxpaiisa. By the Rev. 

 John Bransby. — On a Method of securing the Scion when 

 fitted to the Stock in grafting. By David Powell, Esq. — On 

 the Woburn Perennial Kale, a variety of Brassica olcracea 



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