CONTENTS. 



INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 



Page. 



1. Report to the Lyceum of New York, on the splendid 



work of Mr. Audubon upon the Birds of North 

 America, ----- 353 



2. Proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History of 



New York, - - - - 354 



3. Memorial, ----- 358 



4. Gold mines of North Carolina, - - 360 



5. Pettengill's Stellarota, - - - - 363 



6. Dr. Hare, on the precipitation of morphia from lau- 



danum by ammonia; also a spontaneous deposition 



of narcotin, _ - _ _ 365 



7. An account of an extraordinary explosion, arising from 



the reaction of nitric acid with phosphorus ; by 

 the author of the preceding article, - 366 



S. Collections in Natural History, - - - 368 



9. Carpenter's Powders, for making Congress Spring or 



Saratoga Waters, - - - - 369 



10. Dr. WoUaston's scale of chemical equivalents, 371 



11. Notice of a projected improvement in the method of 



blasting rocks, &,c. . - - - 372 



12. Mode of decoying wild pigeons in New England, 373 



13. 14. Ohio oil stone — Report of the Chester county 



cabinet, Pennsylvania, _ - - 374 



15. Chalcedony, ----- 375 



16, 17. Uniform nomenclature in Botany — Vegetable 



Chemistry, by C. Conwell, M. D. Philadelphia, 376 

 18, 19. Group of crystals of common salt — ^Fibrous gyp- 

 sum of Onondago County, New York, - 377 

 20, 21, 22. Conchology of the United States — Natural 

 History in Canada — Swainson's new zoological 

 illustrations, _ - - - 373 



23. Cabinet of the late William Phillips, - - 379 



24. Canada, ----- 380 



25. Remains of the Mammoth, - - - 382 



26. 27. Two kinds of Sulphate of Manganese — Prepara- 



tion of Hydriodic Acid, . . . 383 



28, 29. Pluranium — Bichromate of Potash, - 384 



30, 31, 32. Compound of Cyanogen and Sulphur — Citric 



Acid from Gooseberries — Medical uses of Gold, 385 

 33. Congress of Savans at Bei'lin, - - 386 



:14, 35, 36. Detection of Potash by the Oxide of Nickel — 

 Apparatus for saturating any liquid with gas and 

 without loss of the fluid — Memoir on the Chloride 

 of Lime, ----- 387 



