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CONTENTS. Vll 



Page. 



XV. Extract from an unpublished Essay upon the compounds 



of Cyanogen ; by Dr. William H. Ellet, of Columbia 

 College, New York, ------ 



XVI. Notice of an Essay on the Remittent and Intermittent 



diseases, including generically Marsh fevers and Neur- 

 algia; by John MacCulloch, M. D,, F. R. S., &.c. &c. 338 

 XVIL Analysis of the Clinton Mineral Water, Cliff street, city 



of New York ; by George Chilton, - - . 34G 

 XVIIL On the Vegetation of the Ottawa and some of its tribu- 

 taries (L. Canada); by Prof. A, Benedict, - - 349 

 XIX, Notice of Piperin ; by T. G. Clemson, - - . 352 

 XX. An account of Depositions of Calcareous Tufa, at Chit- 



teningo, Madison Co. N. Y. ; by Prof. Edward Sanford, 364 



MISCELLANIES DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



1. Note on Cardamine rotundifolia, by Wm. Darlington, M. D. 336 



2. On Xanthite, with a notice of mineral localities ; by Lt, W. 



W. Mather, 359 



3. Mode of adjusting lightning rods, - - - - 361 



4. Practical penmanship; by B. F. Foster, - * . 353 



5. On a sesqui-sulphate of mercury; by Lt, W. T, Hopkins, 364 

 6- Meteorological table; by Gen. Martin Field, - - 366 

 7. Abstract of meteorological observations, made at Marietta 



observations on the flowering of plants, ripening of fruits, 

 &c. in 1829, by S. P. Hildreth, - - - . 368 



1 8. Wire gauze windows, a suggested protection against malaria; ^ 



370 



371 



372 



by R. C. Bond, M. D. 

 9, 10. On the heating of water; by Dr- E. Emmons — On the 



carbonization of lignite, id. - - - - - 



11. On the inflammation of phosphorus in a partial vacuum; by- 



Prof. A. D. Bache, ------ 



12. On the use of black mica in spectacles; by Dr. Wm- Meade, 374 



13. Geological facts ; by David Thomas, - - ^ . 375 



14. Cannel coal in Ohio, .--.--.- 376 



15. Plumbago of Sturbridge, Mass. - - . * . 377 



16. Notice of the fall of the Tennessee meteorites, - - 378 

 17- Fountains of fresh and salt water, - - . _ 379 



18. Suggestions as to the variation of the magnetic needle; by 



Daniel Byrnes, 



19, 20. Premiums for useful inventions — Manufacture of silk in 



America, - - - - 



21. Porcelain of Philadelphia, ------ 



22, 23. Improved scale of chemical equivalents — Report to the 



380 



382 

 384 



Regents of the University of New York, - - 385 



24, 25. History of the county of Berkshire, Mass. — History of 



Wyoming, 



387 

 388 



26. Georgia Meteor and _Srolite, 



27. Dr. Comstock-s Natural History of Birds, - - - 389 



28. 29, 30, 31. Obituary — Correction — Collections of New Eng- 



land rocks with their imbedded minerals, for sale — Trans- 

 actions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures and Com- 

 merce, London, - 



390 



