Vol.63. Philosophical Magazine. June 1824 



Contents of Number 314. 



LXVII. An Account of some Experiments made in order to de- 

 termine the Velocity with which Sound is transmitted in the Atmo- 

 sphere. By Olinthus Gregory, LL.D., Associate Acad. Dijon, 

 Honorary Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 New York, of the New York Historical Society, of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, &c. Secretary of the Astronomical Society 

 of London, and Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military 

 Academy at Woolwich V a g e w 



LXVIII. On the New Method of Gauging proposed by Dr. Young. 

 By Mr. W. Wiseman. 41 



LXIX Letter on the Astronomical Refractions. By J. Ivory, 

 Esq. M.A. F.R.S *A! 



LXX. On some Errors in Dr. Hutton's Tables of the Products 

 and Powers of Numbers. ' By Mr. J. Utting. 42 



LXXI. Introduction to the Sixth Section of Bessel's Astrono- 

 mical Observations ^ 



LXXII. Some Account of the Binomial Calculus. By J. Walsh, 

 Esq 4 * 



LXXIII. On Black Current Wine. By C. G. Harley, Esq. 44 



LXXIV. Notices respecting New Books: — Smith's Geological 

 Atlas ; Analysis of Periodical Works on Natural History .... 447 — 45 



LXXV. Proceedings of Learned Societies:— Royal Society; Lin-* 

 nean Society ; Geological Society ; Horticultural Society ; Astro- 

 nomical Society ; Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris 452 — 45 



LXX VI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles : — New South 

 Wales ; Return of the Russian Antarctic Expedition ; Mount Rosa, 

 the highest in Europe; Earthquakes; Hopeite, a New Mineral; 

 Effect of Light on the Colour of the Sodalite from Greenland ; 

 Aeronautic Ascent; Obituary— Wilson Lowry, Esq.; Meteorolo- 

 gical Observations at Great Yarmouth ; Calendar of Flora, Fauna, 

 and Pomona, at Hartfield in Sussex ; List of New Patents ; Meteoro- 

 logical Table, &c 459—4* 



Index and Contents. 



* # * Communications for this Work, received by the Editors, 

 38 Shoe-Lane, will meet with every attention. 



RICHARD TAYLOR, PRINTER, SHOE-LANE, LONDON. 



