238 List of Palenls. Neiv Scientific Books. [March, 



The greatest cold at Chelsea was 5° : it happened on the night 

 whicli followed the 9th of January. At Kensington I am told, the 

 thermometer stood at 3°, The mean height of the thermometer 

 before the thaw of the 26th was 25*572''. Its mean height during 

 the day was 29-46/°; and during the night 21*677'*. The mean 

 during the last week of the frost was 31-827°. The mean for the 

 night was 26*555°, and for the day 37"111°. Finall}', the mean 

 during the four days of thaw was 34-875°. The mean for the day 

 was 37°, for the night 32*75. 



Article XV. 



New Pule7its. 



Thomas Wright, London, broker; for a method of making a 

 composition or mixture for dying scarlet and other colours, Dec. 

 V, 1813. 



John Bateman, Wyke, York; for an improvement on musical 

 instruments. Dec. 9, 1813. 



JosKPH Whitk, Leeds, millwright ; for an improvement on 

 steam-engines. Dec. 14, 1813. 



John Swarbrkck Kogkrs, Chester, merchant; for a mode of 

 spinning or making a species of wool into yarn, either by itself, or 

 with any other material ; which yarn may be beneficially used in 

 Tarious branches of manufacture. Dec. 14, 1813. 



Article XVI. 



Scientific Books in hand, or in the Pi-ess. 



Mr. Hodgson is about to publish a Treatise on Aneurisms and 

 »-ounded Arteries, in an octavo volume, with Engravings. 



INIr. Stewart will shortly publish a Treatise on Uterine Hemorrhage. 



Mr. William Goodlad, of Bury, has in the press a Practical Essay on 

 the Diseases of the Vessels and Glands of the Absorbent Sj'stem ; with 

 an Appendix, containing Surgical Cases and Remarks. 



A Translation of the Treatise on Mechanics, which forms the Intro- 

 duction to the Meclianique Celeste of Laplace, with Explanatory 

 Notes, &c. by the Rev. John Toplis, is preparing for publication. 



Dr. Adams has in the Press his long projected work on the erroneous 

 opinions and unfoL.nded terrors usually entertained concerning Here- 

 ditary Diseases. Connected with the subject are some Remarks on 

 Cutaneous Diseases, on the attempts at reducing them to Orders and 

 Classes, and on the unnecessary revival of obsolete Greek Terms. 



