Scientific Intelligence. 401 
, Table I.” ; 
p. 195, opposite -9980, for 4054 read 9954054 
Table of Useful Numbers. . 
p- 196, No. 6, for 0:01688690 read 0-01688686 
No. 7, 6 1:77245390 = =1°77245385 
*. _No. 8, “ 1:14472990..“ .|-14472989 
7s See 10, * 3437"-746770 “3437746771 
Table III: Logarithmic Sines and Tangents. 
p. 136, cos 6° 42’ 39” for 99970 42, read 9-9970142 
In table xxxvii, (the traverse table,) are — precisely the 
Same errors as those in Hutton’s table above s 
Some of those errors were in Sherwin’s Tuaveene Table: 
Hutton, in copying that, introduced the others, and where his 
traverse table has been adopted in collections of tables, we sel- 
dom find any of the errors correcte 
_ number of errors discovered in several sets of tables of less 
portance, it is not thought worth while to mention here. 
The following numerical error in my own tables has been 
pointed out to me by a frien 
The logarithm of 34724 should be 5406297 instead of 5405297. 
I will add that in the Introduction, p. 23, 4th sa from the bot- 
tom, the word logarithm should be changed to » 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
I. Cuemistry AND Prysics. 
Sullice at present to indicate the scope of the experiments a and the 
great interest of many of the determinations, especially in their aeerng 
upon the crime td of Geology, the formation of Soils, and the Nutri 
tion of Plan 
It is matter of surprise that so little has hitherto been done to deter- 
mine by ac ual experiment, the solvent power of water and of carbon- 
nA tana esl cieenemes 
: Communicated for this Journal, by the et in advance of a more extended 
memoir on the same subject which will appear in a future number. 
