

IV CONTENTS 



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MISCELLANIES. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 



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I, 2, 3, 4. Alum for ornaments — Cement — Heater or Calorifac- 



tor — Freezing mixture, 



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168 



169 



5, 6, 7, 8. A good Safe or victual preserver — Cure for cramp 



Excellent ink — To silver iron, .... 



9. Movable hood, for smoky chimnies, . . . . . 170 



10, 11. Method of coating busts and plaster casts — Iron cement, 171 



12. Filtration of water for domestic purposes, . . . 172 



13, 14, 15. To render oil casks impermeable — To purify cold 



short iron — Method of bronzing iron and gun barrels, 

 16, 17, 18. Medal of the Royal Society conferred on Mr. Lyell 



173 



Maize sugar — Introduction of Burden's boat into France, 174 

 20. Meteorites — Fall of a Meteorite in Moravia, . . 175 



21. Carrara marble, 



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A new antimonuret of nick- 



el — On a double sulphuret of antimony and lead, . . 177 



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178 



26, 27, 28. Oerstedite — Electricity of peroxyd of manganese 



Paramorphine and Pseudomorphine, . . • . 179 



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180 



30, 31. On the improvements lately introduced into the iron foun- 



deries of Russia — Cause of dynamic phenomena, . • 181 



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terranean galleries — On the cause of the " dry rot," . 182 



34. Taxidermy, . . . ... . . .183 



35, 36. Statue of Cuvier at Montbeliard — Extraordinary applica- 



tion of gas, . 184 



37. Fossil wax. . . .185 



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186 



38, 39. Circulation in insects — Iron, 



40, 41, 42. Rain — Yale Natural History Society — Academy of 



Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, . . , • . 187 



43. Dr. Harlau's Medical and Physical Researches, . . 188 



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New mode of 



preparing supercarbonate of soda, 189 



46. On Veratria, , . .190 



47. Impressions of the feet of Mammalia in sandstone, . . 191 

 ' 48, 49. Movements on the surface of water produced by the vi- 

 brations of glass — Maryland Academy of Science and Lite- 

 rature, , . . ■ ', . . . . , 192 







