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He died 30th of July, 1832. Besides eighty single different 



treatises in Chemistry, we are in possession of the following works : 



Elemens de Chimie, 3 vols, in 8vo. 4 edit. 



Traite sur la Salpetre, 1 vol. in 8vo. 1796. 



Essai sur le perfectionnement des arts chimiques en France, 1 

 vol. in 8vo. 1800. 



Art de faire et gouvemer les vins, l'eau de vie, vinaigre, &c. 2 vol. 

 in 8vo. 2 edit. 1801 and 1811. 



Essai sur le Blanchiment, 1 vol. in 8vo. 1801. 



Chimie appliquee aux arts, 4 vol. in 8vo. 2 edit. 1803 and 1707. 



Art de la teinture du coton rouge in 8vo. 1807. 



Art du leinturier-degraisseur, 1 vol. 8vo. 1800. 



De Industrie Franqoise, 2 vol. in 8vo. 1819. 



Memoire sur le sucre de betteraves, 3 edit. 1819. 



Chimie appliquee a ^agriculture, 2 vol. in 8vo. 2 edit. 1833 and 

 1829. 



Art. XXIV. — On the Elements of the Solar System; by E. H 



Burritt, A. M. 



Upon receiving the Report of the Council of Astronomers* as- 

 sembled in London, Nov., 1830, and which was first published there 

 near the close of the last year, I set myself to re-compute the whole 

 of the numerical values, pertaining to the solar system, so far as they 

 depend upon, or are affected by the elements assumed and concur- 

 red in by that convention. 



The pre-eminent qualifications of the men selected to draw up this 

 reportf , and the peculiar facilities they enjoyed for performing the 



# In the year 1830, reference was made by the Lords Commissioners of the 

 British Admiralty to the London Astionomicar Society, to consider if any, and what, 

 improvements could be made in the JYautical Almanac : Whereupon, the society 



appointed a council of forty members to consider and report upon the subjects invol- 

 ved in the reference. 



t The sub-committee, appointed by the council, to draw up their report, was 

 composed of Sir James South, President, Sir John F. TV. Herscheh Professor 

 Airy, Professor Siruve, Francis Baily, J Pond, Rev. Dr. Robinson, C. Rabbage, 

 Capt. F. Reavfort, R. JV. 9 and Lieut. W. A Stratford, R. JV. 



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