1825.] of Claude-Louis BerthuUet. ' 185 



vjith some Reflections on the Measure of Affiuity in General." By 

 M. C. H. Pfatf. Ann. de Ch. Ixxvii. 288. 



Report on a Memoir of M. Curaudau, entitled " General Con- 

 siderations on the Properties of Oxygenized Muriatic Gas." By 

 Chaptal, Vauquelin, and BerthoUet. Ibid. Ixxx. 54, 112. 



Report on a Memoir of M. Chizel, on the Analysis of the 

 Liquid Sulphur of Lampadius. By BerthoUet, Thenard, and 

 Vauquelin. Ibid. Ixxxiii. 252. 



Report on a Memoir of M. Berard, respecting the Physical and 

 Chemical Properties of the different Rays ivhich compose the Solar 

 Light. By BerthoUet, Chaptal, and Biot. Ibid. Ixxxv. 

 309. 



Report on a Memoir of M. Dulong, on a nexo detonating 

 Substance. By Thenard and BerthoUet. Ibid. Ixxxvi. 37. 



ISote on a Memoir of M. Loioitz, on the Method of sweetening 

 Putrid Water by Means of Charcoal. Ibid, xciii. 150. 



Note respecting a Memoir of MM. Colin and Robiqnet, entitled 

 " Researches on the Nature of the Oily Substance of the Dutch 

 Chemists." Ann. de Ch. st de Phys. i. 426. 



Considerations on Vegetable and Animal Analysis. M6m. de 

 la Soc. d'Arcueil, iii. 64. 



Observations on certain Mercurial Precipitaies, and on those of 

 Sulphate of Alumina. Ibid. iii. 77. 



Experiments on the Proportions of the Elements of Nitric Acid. 

 Ibid. iii. 165. > 



Observations on the Composition of Oxyrnuriatic Acid. Ibid, 

 iii. 171. 



Note on the Decomposition of Sulphate of Barytes, and of 

 Subcarhonateof Lime by Potash. Ibid, iii, 453. 



Note on the Composition of Oxumuriatic Acid. Ibid. iii. 603. 



Article II. 



A Summary Vieiv of the Atomic Theory according to the Hypo- 

 thesis adopted by M. Berzelius. By J. G. Children, FRS. 



The general adoption of the peculiar views of M. Berzelius 

 respecting the atomic constitution of chemical compounds, 

 native or artificial, by the chemists and mineralogists of the 

 European continent, especially those of Gernuiuy and Sweden, 

 renders an acquaintance with it almost indispensable to the 

 Knglish reader, since scarcely a single analysis is now published 

 in the scientific journals and treatises of those countries, the 

 results of which are not calculated, according to the data, and 



