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23, 
CONTENTS. 
. Determination of the Mathematical Law by which the elastic 
force of Aqueous Vapor increases with the temperature, 363 
16. New Scientific Journals in Great Britain——Report on 
the fresh water Limestone of Burdie House, near Edin- 
burgh, 365 
18. Refraction and polarization of heat.—Mémoires Geol- 
giques et Paleontologiques, 366 
20. L’Institut, Journal Général des sociétés et travaux sci- 
entifiques de la France et de L’Etrangere.—-Adhesive 
power of the cement of Castle Rock, 367 © 
22. Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of 
Quebec.—Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, 368 
24. Belfast Natural History Society.—Ichthyosaurus, fossil 
fish, wood, &c. 369 
Page. 
XXIV. Facts in reference to the Spark, &c. from a long con- 
ductor uniting the poles of a Galvanic Battery ; by 
Joseru Henry, Professor of Natural Philosophy in 
the College of New Jersey, Princeton, 327 
XXV. Volcanic Eruptions and Earthquakes, 3o2 
XXVI. Notice of the posthumous work of the late Colonel 
Mark Beaufoy, entitled, “ Nautical and Hydraulic Ex- 
periments, with numerous Scientific Miscellanies— 
in three volumes, with plates. Vol. 1.” €340 * 
X XVII. Descriptions of some Shells, belonging to the coast 
of New England; by Jos. G. Totten, 347 
- XXVIII. Improved Air Pump Receiver, exhibited before the 
New York Mechanic’s Institute, Jan. 1835; by Joun 
Betz, Member of the Institute, 353 
MISCELLANIES—FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 
1, 2. Oxy-hydrogen illumination.—Singular preservation of 
Life in a Molluscous Animal, 35D 
3. Isomerism, 356 
4. Water, maximum density of, 357 
5, 6. Gallic acid.—Acetic acid, 308 
7. Opium, 309 
8, 9, 10. Nitrogen.—-Sulphurous acid gas.—Anhydrous sul- 
phuric acid, 360 
11, 12. On a substance called inflammable snow.—Stearine 
a compound body, 361 
13. On the cementation of iron by means of carburetted hy- 
drogen, 362 
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