"Kin CONTENTS. 



INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 



1. The national historical pictures, By Col. Trumbull, 163 

 2- New book of Travels, ... 168 



3. The number five, the most favorite number of nature ; 



by A. E. - - - - - 172 



4. Alcohol, or spirituous liquors, from succulent and 



farinaceous fruits, and herbage of plants ; by A. E. 173 



5. A. A. Hayes, on the use of alumina with pigments 



designed for the pallet, _ _ - 173 



6. A. A. Hayes, on a fine scarlet pigment for the pallet, 174 



7. Dr. B. L. Oliver's use of iodine in gout and angina 



pectoris, - - - - - 176 



8. G. W. Carpenter's notice of the manufacture of the 



chloride of lime, and of some of its leading uses, 

 Jan. 1829, - - - - 177 



9. Specimens in Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Chem- 



istry, - . - - - 179 



10. Dr. J. Revere's improvement in the construction of 



ships and other vessels, as respects their metallic 

 fastenings, and sheathing, - - 180 



11. Steam Pump, . - . . - 18I 



12. Dr. Church on the efficacy of ammonia in counteract- 



ing poison, - - - - 182 



13. S. Allison, on the Atomic Weight of Mercury, - 183 



14. 15. J. C. Keeney on the Novaculite in Georgia — Mr. 



Finch's notice of the locality of the Bronzite, or 

 Diallage metalloide ; at Amity, Orange county, 

 N. Y. 185 



16. Dr. L. C. Beck's note on the presence of Iron in the 



Salt Springs of Salina, N. y. - - 187 



17. Tin in Massachusetts ; by Professor Hitchcock, 188 



18. Mr. C. U. Shepard's mineralogical and chemical de- 



scription of the Virginia Aerolite, - 191 



19. C. U. Shepard on Native Soda Alum, in Milo, - 203 



20. Proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History of 



New York, . . - . 205 



21. Baron de Zach — Liberty of opinion and the press — 



Education — General views of Europe, &c. 209 



22. 23. Literary notice — Obituary, - - 211 



24. Carbonic Acid of the Atmosphere, - - 214 



25, 26, 27. Autumnal coloration of Leaves — Singular 



Galvanic trough — On a method of measuring some 

 varieties of Chemical action, by M. Babinet, 215 



28, 29. Sulphur— Dr. Wollaston, - - - 216 



