CONTENTS. 



On the ensuing Opposition of Mars. By F. Baily, Esq. F.R.S. 

 Read before the Astronomical Society of London, January 9, 



1824 • 50 



Remarks on the Position of the Upper Marine Formation exhi- 

 bited in the Cliffs on the North-east Coast of Norfolk. By 



Mr. Richard Taylor of Norwich 81 



On the Mode of manufacturing Salt by Evaporation on Faggots. 



By R. Bakewell, Esq 86 



Description of a Pressure Gauge recommended for its Simpli- 

 city of Construction and Principle ; with Observations on the 

 Gauge proposed by Mr. Seaward. By Mr. H. Russell 92 

 Electro- and The r mo-magnet ical Experiments. By Mr. Wm. 



Sturgeon 95, 266 



On Parallel Straight Lines. By John Walsh, Esq. 100, 271 



A technical Description of Chloraster, a new Genus of Nar- 



cisseae. By A. H. Ha worth, Esq. F.L.S. S?c. . . 102 



Papers relating to the Earthquake which occurred in India in 



1819 105, 170 



On White Copper. By C. Keferstein. Read at a Meeting 

 of the German Explorers of Nature at Halle, September 1 8, 



1823 119 



Experiments on the Deviation of the Magnetic Needle, as effected 

 by Caloric, Sfc. By John Murray, Esq. F.S.A. F.L.S. 

 F.H.S. Member of the Geological and Wernerian Societies, 



4'c. 4'c 130 



Description, Analysis, 8fc. of a Lamellar Pyroxene. By Lard- 



ner Vanuxem 131 



On the Application of Algebraic Functions to prove the Proper- 

 ties of Parallel Lines 161 



Experiments on the Adhesion of Nails. By B. Be van, Esq. 168 



On the Circular Micrometer. By F. Baily, Esq. F.R.S. 1 77 



Miner alogical and Chemical Examination of Hyalosiderite, a 



new Mineral. By Dr. Walchner, of Freiburg in the Breis- 



gau 181 



On High-pressure Gauges. By Mr. Samuel Seaward 190 

 Memoir on the Variations of the reflective, refractive and disper- 

 sive Powers of the Atmosphere, Sfc. By T. Forster, M.B. 

 F.L.S. Member of the Astronomical and the Meteorological 

 Societies of London, and Corresponding Membei of the Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, fyc. . .192, 328 

 Desa-iption of a new Micrometer. By M. Frauenhofer of 



Munich 210 



Letter from Robert Hare, M.D. Professor of Chemistry in the 

 University of Pennsylvania, to B. Silliman, Professor of 

 Chemistry in Yale College, on some improved Forms of the 

 Galvanic Defiagi ator ,■ on the Superiority of its defagrating 



