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 of the Barometer at the level of the Sea. 26. Rain without Clouds. 27. 

 Fall of Meteoric Stones in Italy. 28. Baron Krusenstern's opinion of Mr 

 Adie's Sympiesometer. 29. Mr Jones's Improved Hygrometer. 30. Re- 

 markable Waterspout. - .... 180 — 183 



II. CHEMISTRY. 



31 . Highly calcined Charcoal a conductor of Caloric 32. Selenium in the 

 Sulphur of the Lipari Islands. 33. Iodine discovered in a Mineral. 34. 

 New Experiments on Flame. 35. Prussian Blue in the Soda of Sicily- 

 36. Analysis of Benzoin. 37. On Rinmann's Green. 38. Oxalic acid found 

 in great quantities in lichens, &c. 39. Action of Nitric Acid on Charcoal. 

 40. Temperature of different Animals. 41. Analysis of the Piney Tallow 

 from Malabar, ...... 183—1 85 



III. NATURAE HISTORY. 



mineralogy. — 42. New Analysis of Dioptase. 43. Mr Swedenstierna's 

 Collection of Minerals. 44. Remarkable Law in Mineralogy, - 186—187 



IV. GENERAL SCIENCE. 



45. Copley Medals adjudged to Mr Barlow and M. Arago. 46. Figures in 



Amber. 47. Establishment of two Royal Scientific Prizes, - 188 



XXXIII.— List of Patents for New Inventions, sealed in Scotland since Au- 

 gust 19, 1825, ....... ib. 



XXXIV. Celestial Phenomena, from January 1, 1826, to April 1, 1826, 

 Adapted for the Meridian of Greenwich, 189 



XXXV. Register of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Rain-Gage, kept 



at Canaan Cottage. By Aiex. Adie, Esq. F. R. S. E. - 192 



