VI CONTENTS. 



Mr. S. Morion's account of an ancient mound near Wheeling iu Va. 166 

 Dr. James Cutbush on the Greek Fire, .... 302 



Notice of several Meteors, - - - - - 315 



Professor Dean on that of March, 1822, ... 322 



Dr. Darlington's Pluviometrical Observations, - - - 326 



Rev. Mr. Emerson's account of the cure of Asthma by a stroke of 



Lightning, 329 



Galvano-Magnetic Apparatus, of Prof. Dana, with a drawing on pi, 10, 330 

 Analysis of the Glassy Actynolite from Concord Township, Delaware 



CO. Penn. by H. Seybert, . , . . - 331 

 Analysis of Argentine and Crystallized Steatite, by Professor Dewey, 333 

 Rev. H. Daggett, on the cutting of Steel by Soft Iron, - - 336 

 Editor on the relations existing between the Deflagrator and Calorim- 

 otor, and the common Voltaic Batteries, in a letter to Professor Ro- 

 bert Hare, M. D. 337 



Editor on the fusion of Plumbago, in a letter to Dr. Hare, - 341 



Experiments upon Diamond, Anthracite and Plumbago with the com- 

 pound Blow Pipe, in a letter addressed to Professor Robert Hare, M. 

 D. by the Editor, ...... 349 



P. S — Fusion of Anthracite, - - - - - 353 



Editor's notice of the Fluoric acid of Gay Lussac, and of its application 

 to the etching of glass, with a drawing of apparatus on pi. 10, - 354 

 INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 



J. DOMKSTIC. 



Protest of Mr. Henry Seybert in relation to the discovery of fluoric acid, 



in the condrodite, with Mr, Thomas Nuttall's reply, * - - 168 



Iron Conduit Pipes, - . - - - - - 173 



Notice of American Andalusite, by Major Delafield, - - 176 



Professor Eaton's notice of the Boletus Igniarius, - - 177 



Professor Hall's notice of the Plumbago of Ticonderoga, - - 173 



Mr. Ebenezer Granger's notice of a fluted rock at Sandusky, 179 



Prof. Keating on the Cadmia of Aucram, Sec. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 180 



Editor's Hotice of the inflammability of ammoniacal gas, - - 185 



crystallization of sulphuric acid, - - 186 



an explosion of phosphuretted hydrogen and oxygen 



gases, 



187 



Vindication of Mr. Henry Seybert's claim to the discovery of fluoric 



acid, in the condrodite, ..... 356 



Abstractof the Proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History, N. York, 361 



ESicacy of Prussic Acid in Asthma, ..... 366 



Notice of Dr. Beck's Gazetteer, .... - 367 



Dr. Comstock's Grammar of Chemistry, ... 369 



Mineral Caoutchouc, . - - - - - - 370 



Hudson Marble — Kendall's Thermometers, - ... 371 



Salem manufacture ofalum, Sic, - - - - ^- 372 



Geological Survey on the Great Canal, ... 373 



Expedition of Major Long and Party to the Rocky Mountains, - 374 



Philadelphia Water Works, 375 



Test for Platinum, 376 



American Geological Society — On Animal Fat, ... 377 



Editor's additional notice on the Fused Carbonaceous Bodies, * 378 



New Journal — Ittro Cerite, - 379 



II. Foreign. 

 Dr. Bout's Notice, of European Continental Geology, in a letter to Dr. 



J. W. Webster, - - - - - - - - 188 



Professor Hall's communication from Mr. Miron Winslow, on the min- 

 eralogy of the Island of Ceylon, ...... 192 



Mermaid — Extract of a letter from Batavia, ... 195 



New edition of Mr, Parkes' rudiments and essays, . - - 197 



