TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



NUMBER I.— JANUARY. 



Page 



Mr. Ivory on the Elastic Force of Steam at different Tempera- ^ 



Mr'.TeVy on Vhe'ldentity of Ep'istiibite and HeulandTte . . 6 

 Capt. Parry's and Lieut. Foster's Reply to Mr Galbra.th s 

 Remarks on the Experiments for ascertammg the Velocity 



of Sound at Port Bowen ; ^" "i il 



Mr Bevan's Experiments on the Cohesion of Cast-iron . . . i* 

 Mr' Nixon's Table and Formulae for reducing Registers ot the 



Height of the Barometer to the Standard Temperature and ^ ^ 



Level ■• • ■ /q 



Further List of Errors in Piazzi's Catalogue ot Stars. ••■•••• ^^ 

 Mr. Sturgeon on the Inflammation of Gunpowder and other 

 Substances by Electricity; with a Proposal to employ the 



Term Monicntum as expressive of a certain Condition ot the ^^ 



Electric Fluid • • • • • • <-,„ 



Mr. Levy on some newly discovered Siberian Minerals ^o 



Rev. B. Powell's ObserVations on the Solar Eclipse, Novem- 

 ber 29, 1826 V • W,":-' * ■ 



The Bakerian Lecture. Sir Humphry Davy on the Relations 



of Electrical and Chemical Changes [contimied) .. ^i 



Mr. Tripe on a Mineral from near Hay Tor, m Devonshire . . o» 



Mr W Phillips on the Crystalline Form of the Haytonte.^. . . W 

 Mr. Levy on the Origin of the Crystalline Forms of the Hay- 



torite ; • • • •• • • . „ 



Lieut. Beaufoy's Astronomical Observations 1826 *o 



Mr. Baily's List of Moon-culminating Stars for 1827 47 



Mr Squire's Observations on the late Solar Eclipse . . .. . ._. - 55 



Mr George on Fustic {Morus tindorius) , and its Application 



to the Dyeing of Yellow, Green, Olive, and Brown 5^ 



Proceedings of the Royal Society oO 



Linnaean Society o^ 



. Geological Society o" 



. Astronomical Society 69 



Separation of Elaine from Oils-Sulphuret of Cerium-Oxide ^^ 



of Carbon ■ ' • n ' "• ' 



Artificial Siilphuret of Zinc-Protoferrocyanate of Iron— Cyanic 



Acid— Separation of Iron from Manganese 7^ 



Acetates of Mercury— Pyrmont Heavy Spar .•■•;•• ' 



Discovery of a Substance that inflames upon contact with Water 



—Enormous Fossil Vertebra— African Expedition 7* 



Steam Navigation „ 



Scientific Books ^^ 



New Patents '' 



Meteorological Observations ;■ " ■; ' ' 



. by Mr. Howard near London, 



Mr. Giddy at Penzance, Dr. Burney at Gosport, and Mr. ^^ 



Veall at Bo.ston ^.. NUMBER 



VOL. I. a ^ 



