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SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, Part I. 



We have to announce the publication of the First Part of a new 

 periodical work, conducted by Mr. Richard Taylor, assisted by Mr. 

 E. W. Brayley, junr., entitled SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS, selected 

 FROM THE Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and 

 Learned Societies, and from Foreign Journals. This work may 

 be considered as supplementary to the Philosophical Magazine 

 and other scientific journals ; and ■will give in an ceconomical form 

 translations of papers of great interest, but which may exceed the 

 limits of those publications. 



The following are the contents of the First Part : 

 Memoir on the Free Transmission of Radiant Heat through dif- 

 ferent Solid and Liquid Bodies. By M. Melloni. — New Researches 

 relative to the Immediate Transmission of Radiant Heat through dif- 

 ferent Sohd and Liquid Bodies. By M. Melloni. — Experiments on 

 the Circular Polarization of Light. By H. W. Dove. — Description 

 of an Apparatus for exhibiting the Phaenomena of the Rectilinear, 

 Elliptic, and Circular Polarization of Light. By H. W. Dove. — 

 Memoir on Colours in general, and particularly on a new Chromatic 

 Scale, deduced from Metallochromy for Scientific and Practical Pur- 

 poses. By M. LeopoldNobili. — On the Mathematical Theory of Heat. 

 By M. S. D. Poisson. — Researches on the Elasticity of Bodies which 

 crystalhze regularly. By M. Felix Savart. — Experiments on the 

 Oil of the Spircea Ulmaria (Meadow-Sweet). By Professor Lov/ig. 

 — Researches relative to the Insects, known to the Ancients and 

 Modems, by which the Vine is infested, and the means of preventing 

 their Ravages. By the Baron Walckenaer. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR JUNE 1836. 

 Chiswick — June 1. Overcast. 2. Cloudy and fine: rain at night. 



3, Cloudy. 4. Fine. 5. Fine : showery. 6. Very fine. 7. Over- 

 cast. 8. Very fine. 9. Fine : slight rain. 10. Overcast: rain. 

 1 1 — 1 4. Very fine. 1 5. Hot and dry : lightning at night. 1 6. Very fine. 

 17. Fine: thunder showers at noon in heavy drops. 18. Vervfine. 

 19. Fine. : thunder showers. 20. Fine. 21. Cloudy. 22.'Rain : 

 overcast and fine. 23. Fine. 24. Fine: thunder storm in afternoon : 

 clear at night. 25, Showery. 26, 27. Very fine. 28 — 30. Hot and dry. 



Boston. — June 1. Cloudy. 2. Cloudy: rain p.m. 3. Cloudy: thunder 

 and lightning with rain p.m. 4, 5. Cloudy: rain p.m. 6. Fine: rain p.m. 

 7— 9. Cloudy. 10. Cloudy and stormy. 11. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 



12. Fine: rain P.M. 13, 14. Cloudy. 15. Fine. 16. Fine: rain 



early A.M. 17. Fine: rain p.m. 18. Cloudy : rain early a.m. 19. Fine: 

 rain p.m. 20. Cloudy. 21. Stormy: rain p.m. 22. Cloudy: rain a.m. 

 23,Fine, 24. Cloudy : rain p.m. 25. Stormy. 26, 27. Cloudy. 



28—30. Fine. 



