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NOTES: 



AND ADDENDA TO TITLES. 



Page 29 : 



In a critical notice of Davy's Elements of Chemical Philosophy in the 

 Quarterly Review for 1812, the writer speaking of recent advances in 

 chemistry, and especially in the establishment and extension of the law of 

 definite proportions, remarks : " for these facts the science is principally 

 indebted after Mr. Higgins, to Dalton, Gay Lussac, Smithson, and Wollas- 

 ton." Quarterly Review, 1812, vol. viii, p. 77. 



Page 34 : On the composition of the compound sulphuret from Huel Boys , 

 and an account of its crystals otherwise called Bournonite. 



Page 42 : On the Composition of Zeolite. 



This article was translated by Smithson himself into French, and pub- 

 lished under the title " Memoire sur la Composition de la Zeolite," in the 

 Journal de Physique, de Chimie, et d'Hist. Nat., etc. Paris, 1814, vol. 

 Ixxix, pp. 144-149. 



Page 47 : On a substance from the Elm Tree, called TTlmin. 



This article (translated by M. Vogel) was published under the title " Ex- 

 periences sur 1'Ulmine," in the Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire 

 Naturelle. Paris, 1814, vol. Ixxviii, pp. 311-315. 



Page 65 : On a native compound of sulphuret of lead and arsenic. Binnit 

 of Naumann. 



Page 68 : Thomson's Annals of Philosophy October, 1821, vol. ii, New 

 Series, pp. 291-292. Contains comments by Charles Konig, 

 on Smithson's article on "Fibrous Metallic Copper." 



Page 71 : An account of a native combination of sulphate of barium and 

 fluoride of calcium. 



Das von Smithson als Flussbaryt aufgefiihrte Mineral aus Derbyshire ist 

 wohl nur ein sehr inniges Gemenge von Fluorit und Baryt. (Naumann, 

 Min. 9th edit., p. 261, Ann. 3.) 



