IV CONTENTS. 



Page. 



MISCELLANIES DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



1. Statistics of New York, 147 



2. Fish of Hudson River, from Prof. Eaton, - - 150 



3. On shooting stars,. ----.-_ 153 



4. Compendium of American Ornithology, by Thomas Nuttall, 



A. M., F. L. S., &c., - - - - - 154 



5. Elements of Physics, by Neil Arnott, M. D., of the Royal 



College of Physicians, - - - - - 155 



6. Buffalo Mineral Spring, 156 



7. 8. Loss of vessels in the Gulf Stream — Improvement in the 



Reflecting Goniometer; by A. Eaton, - - - 158 



9. Mapping Instrument, ------ 159 



10, 11, 12. Boston Mechanics' Magazine — Asbestos impregnated 



with platinum — The American Botanical Register, I6O 



13, 14, 15. Floating Pumice — Bromine — American Birds, 161 



16. Abstract of a Meteorological Journal, - - - - 162 



17, 18, 19, 20. Mauch Chunk Anthracite mines — Indiana His- 



torical Society — Notice respecting Steam Boats — Pro- 

 fessor Hitchcock's lectures on diet and regimen, 163 



21, 22. To mineralogists, geologists, &c. — Reflections on the de- 

 cline of Science in England, - - - i64 



23, 24, 25. Purification of olive oil, for chronometers, &c. — 

 Method of clearing the Baltimore rail-way of snow 

 during the late winter — Discourse, delivered before the 

 Historical Society of Michigan, by Henry R. Schoolcraft, 166 



26, 27, 28. Encyclopaedia Americana — Crystallized Carbon — 



Horticulture, ------- i67 



29, 30, 31. Literary and scientific societies of Canada — Affinity 

 of the Diallage family, in chemjcal constitution, with 

 augite — Collections of Insects, - - - - 168 



32, 33, 34. Localities of Minerals, by Jacob Porter — Trap, and 

 rocks altered by it — Sir Humphry Davy's Consolations 

 in travel, 170 



STATISTICS. 



1. National encouragement of Science, . - - - 172 



2, 3, 4. Necrology — State of Education in the City of Lyons — 



Rail roads in Austria, - - - - - 174 



6, 6. The last annual meeting of the Naturalists and physicians 



of Germany — Petersburg Botanic Garden, - 175 



7, 8, 9. Kingdom of Wirtemburg — Iron Trade of Great Brit- 



ain — Russian Universities, - - - - 176 



10. Destruction of Live Stock by Wolves in Russia, - 177 



MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY. 



1. Voltaic electricity. - - 177 



2, 3. Safety of steam engines — Violent thunder storm in Swit- 



zerland, 178 



4, 5. Decomposition of water by atmospheric electricity — 

 "^ I Decompositions by common electricity, - - 179 



