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Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 87 
While nitrate of carbohydrogen would give by calculation : 
C3 WSO fie 21s Behar 
Hap eearear rs! .. 38 
Aa 157-0. 3.2. SAS 
OheeeGeo-d:..:, 2 62'1 
967°5 100: 
When it is heated with a solution of potash in alcohol, rapid de- 
composition takes place, and crystals of nitrate of potash are formed 
in considerable quantity, the formation of which cannot be explained 
on the supposition of its being a nitrite instead of a nitrate of carbe- 
hydrogen ; and a nitrite would yield results further removed from 
those above given than those of a nitrate, 
[To be continued. ] 
SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 
New Scientific Journal.—On April Ist, 1836, will appear Tue 
Lonvon Georoaicat Journat, No. I., with coloured engravings, by 
J. de Carle Sowerby, F.L.S., of new Fossil Echinide from the English 
strata. 
Herpetologia Mexicana ; seu Descriptio Amphibiorum Nove Hi- 
spaniz. Pars Prima, Saurorum Species amplectens. Adjecto Syste- 
matis Saurorum Prodromo, additisque multis in hune Amphibiorum 
ordinem observationibus. Edidit Dr. Arend Fr. Aug. Wiegmann, 
Accedunt Tabule lithographicee decem.—Lately published at Berlin. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR NOVEMBER 1835. 
REMARKS. 
Chiswick.—November 1. Hazy: clear. 2. Dense fog: rain, 3. Rain. 
4, Overcast. 5.Cold: haze. 6. Sharp frost: fine: slight fog. 7. Frosty 
haze: rain at night. 8. Clearand fine. 9—12, Cloudy and cold. 13. Rain: 
fine. 14.Fine. 15. Cloudy. 16. Fine. 17. Hazy. 18. Overcast: 
fine: clear at night, with extensive aurora borealis which illuminated 
the whole of the visible northern hemisphere. At times the streamers ex- 
tended from the horizon even beyond the zenith. 19. Very fine. 
20. Slight haze. 21. Clear and fine. 22. Overcast: cloudy and windy. 
93, Rain: fine. 24,25. Very fine. 26. Hazy: fine. 27, 28, Overcast : 
rain: fine. 29. Rain. 30. Rain: fine. © 
Boston. —November 1. Fine. 2. Foggy. 3. Rain. 4—6. Cloudy. 
7. Cloudy: raine.m. 8,9. Cloudy. 10. Cloudy: raina.M. 11. Fine. 
12, Rain. 13, Cloudy. 14. Cloudy: rain p.m. 15—17. Cloudy. 
Is—21.Fine. 22.Cloudy. 23.Rain, 24.Cloudy. 25. Cloudy: rain 
pM. 26-28. Fine. 29. Cloudy: rain all night. 30. Cloudy: rain a.m. 
[We have incorporated with our Meteorological Table on the next page, 
a selection from the Observations made at the Apartments of the Royal 
Society, Somerset House, London, by the Assistant Secretary, by order of 
the President and Council, as published in the Atheneum ; and we shall 
continue to do so in future, giving in our next the altitude and other par- 
ticulars of the station.) 
