VI CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 3, 4, 5, 6, The North American Medical and Surgical Journal — 

 Conversations on the animal economy — The Southern 

 Agriculturist, and Register of Rural Affairs — Elements 

 of Myology, 203 



7. Conversations on Vegetable Physiology, comprehending the 



Elements of Botany, with their application to Agri- 

 culture, -.__-_-- 204 



8. The Natural, Statistical, and Civil History of the State of 



New York, 206 



9. Practical Instructions for the culture of silk and the mulberry 



tree, 207 



OBITUARY. 



Col. Jared Mansfield, LL. D. 208 



NUMBER II. 



Art. I. Illustrations of a View on the Genessee River ; in a letter 



from Daniel Wadsworth, Esq. - - - - 209 

 II. Architecture in the United States, _ _ . 212 



III. On the Manufacturing of Indigo in this country ; by Wil- 



liam Partridge, _.___. 237 



IV. Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Ferruginous 



Sand Formation of the United States, with geological 

 remarks; by Samuel G. Morton, M. D. &.c. - 243 



V. Notices of ancient and modern Greece ; in a letter from 



Dr. Samuel G. Howe, 250 



VI. Upon the solvent and oxidating powers of Ammoniacal 



Salts, &c. ; by Prof John P. Emmet, . . _ 255 

 VII. On the red color of flame as produced b}"^ Strontian and 

 as characteristic of minerals of that genus ; by Lieut. 

 Baddeley, - - - - - - - - 261 



VIII. A new Instrument for taking Specific Gravities; by Lieut. 



J. W. Baddeley, - - - - - -263 



IX. On Springs and Artificial Fountains. Translated from 



the French of M. Le Vicomte Hericart De Thury, 267 



X. Remarks on the Resolution of Equations of the fourth 



degree ; by Mr, C. Wilder, _ - . - 276 

 XI. Practical Instructions on the Culture of Silk, and of the 

 Mulberry Tree in the United States ; by Felix Pasca- 

 Lis, M.D. &c. Essay on Silk, by Mr. D'Homergue, &.c. 

 and Mr. P. S. Duponceau, &c. - - - - 278 

 XII. Mineralogical Journey in the northern parts of New 

 England ; by C. U. Shepard, Assistant to the Professor 

 of Chemistry and Mineralogy, and Lecturer on Botany 

 in Yale College, - 289 



XIII. On the use of Anthracite in Blacksmiths' Shops ; by G. 



Jones, Tutor in Yale College, . - . - 303 



XIV. Notice of the Anthracite Region in the Valley of the 



Lackawanna and of Wyoming on the Susquehanna. — 

 Editor, - . "_ 308 



