CONTENTS. 



X. Additional Remarks on the State in which Alcohol exists in 

 fermented Liquors. By William Thomas Brande, £5^. F.R. S, 



p. 82 



XI. On a new Variety in the Breeds of Sheep. By Colonel David 

 Humphreys, F. R. S. In a Letter to the Right Hon, Sir 

 Joseph Banks, Bart, K, B, P. R. S. p. 88 



XII. Experiments to ascertain the coagulating Power of the 

 Secretion of the gastric Glands. By Sir Everard Home, Bart, 

 F» R. S. Communicated by the Society for promoting the Knozv- 

 ledge of Animal Chemistry, p. Q^ 



XIII. On some Properties of Light. By David Brewster, LL.D. 

 F, R. S. Edin, In a Letter to Sir H. Davy, LL. D. F. R. S. 



p. 101 



XIV. An Appendix to Mr. Ware's Paper on Vision, By Sir 

 Charles Blagden, F. R, S. p. 110 



XV. A Method of drawing extremely fine Wires. By William 

 HydQ^MoWdiSion, M.D. Sec, R,S. P- 114 



XVI. Description of a single-lens Micrometer, £[)' William Hyde 

 Wollaston, M. D, Sec. R. S. p. 1 19 



XVII. Observation of the Winter Solstice of iS 19, with the Mural 

 Circle at Greenwich. By John Pond, Esq. Astronomer Royal, 

 F. R. S, p. 1 23 



XVIII. On the Tusks of the Narwhale. By Sir Everard Home, 

 Bart,F,R,S, p. 126 



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Meteorological Journal kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society^ 

 by Order of the President and Council, 



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