156 Miscellanies. 
York on the 22d of August, 1818; from which it appears that, after 
repeated voyages between New York, Savannah, and Charleston, this 
vessel left Savannah on the 24th or 25th of May, 1819, for Liverpool, 
saw Land’s End on the 17th of June, and arrived at Liverpool on the 
20th of June, having used steam thirteen days, and having exhausted 
her fuel (coal) three days before arrival. It also appears from the 
log-book that she left Liverpool on the 23d of July, arrived at Elsi- 
neur on the 9th of August, left Elsineur on the 14th of August, arrived 
at Stockholm on the 22d of August, left Stockholm on the 5th of Sep- 
tember, arrived at Cronstadt on the 9th of September, and after seve- 
ral excursions between Cronstadt, &c., and Copenhagen, &c., left 
Arundel, Copenhagen, on the 23d of October, and arrived at Savan- 
nah on the 30th of November; that she subsequently arrived at Wash- 
ington from Savannah on the 16th of December, after a passage of 
eleven days; that she was sold at Washington in September, 1820, and 
her engine taken out, after which she sailed as a packet, from New York 
to Savannah, until September, 1822,when she was lost. This log-book 
was supposed to derive additional interest from the recent arrival of the 
Sirius and Great Western, steam-ships, at New York, from England. 
Dr. Mitchell repeated before the Society, Thilorier’s process for 
solidifying carbonic acid, with an apparatus, made under his direction 
in Philadelphia, somewhat modified from that employed by Thilorier, 
and froze a quarter of a pound of mercury by the admixture of the 
solidified acid with nitrous ether: 
a 18, 1838.—The Librarian read the translation of a letter from 
erre de Goetz to Mr, Du Ponceau, dated St. Petersburg, August — 
Heng (29th,) 1837, on behalf 
‘nouncing the transmission to the Society of the works which have 
of the Imperial Russian Academy, an- 
been published by the Academy, numbering fifty seven volumes, a0 
also of a donation of several volumes from himself personally. | 
Dr. Bache announced the death of Thomas Bradford, the latest sut- 
vivor of the original members of the — who died on the 7th of 
May, 1838, aged 93 years and 3 da 
Dr. Hare communicated orally, thet he has found that when the 
elements of water are exploded in contact = certain gases or 
sential oils, the aqueous elements, instead of densir nes et 28 
with the hydrogen and carbon, and form a permanent g : 
June 15, 1838.—A communication was read, dated Cincinnati May 
7th, 1838, from Dr. John Locke, on the subject of Magnetie Obser- 
vations, which was referred. 
Dr. Dunglison announced the death of Thémes W. Griffith, of Bal- 
timore, a member of the Society. _ 
July 20,1 1838.—Mr. Kane, from the Secretaries, reported that they 
had chosen Dr. Franklin Bache to be the Reporter of the wee 
