CONTENTS. V 



UNARRANGED MISCELLANIES, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 



Page. 



1. Particulars of the striking of lightning over a great surface, 193 



2. Electro-galvanic phenomena, - - - 194 



3. Test for lead in oil of vitriol, - - - - 195 



4. 5. Eaton galena — Description of a new locality of zircon, 196 



6. Geology, - - - - - - 197 



7, 8. Magnetic variations — Elements of Technology, - 19& 

 9, 10. Elementary works on astronomy — Catalogue of plants in 



the vicinity of Amherst College, - - 199 



11, Agenda Geognostica, _ - _ . 200 



12, 13, 14. Naval Sketches — Turner's Chemistry — Foreign me- 



moirs and pamphlets, _ - _ - 201 



13, 16, 17. Gifts to the Geological Society — Gold in Maryland — 



Culture of silk, - . . - 202 

 18, 19, 20, 21. Acidulous sulphate of iron — Roxbury Laborato- 

 ry — Correction — Iron mines, - _ - 203 



22. Hydrophobia, - . . . _ 204 



23. Crystallization of tin, , . . - . 206 



24. Albany Institute, - - - - - 208 



25. Chloro-hydrogen blowpipe, - - - - 211 



APPENDIX. 



An account of the Siamese twin brothers, united together from 



their birth j by Prof. J. C. Warren, M, D. &c. with a plate, 212 



NUMBER II. 



Art. I. Review of the Scientific Labors and Character of Sir 



Humphry Davy, with a portrait, - - 217 



II. Architecture in the United States, - - 249 



III. Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Ferruginous Sand 



Formation of the United States ; with geological re- 

 marks ; by S. G. Morton, M. D. of Philadelphia ; Mem. 

 of the Amer. Philos, Soc. ; of the Acad, of Nat. Sci. of 

 Philad. &c. - - - - - 274 



IV. Fragment from Peron, with notices from other voyagers, 



on the Temperature of the Sea, at great depths, far 

 from Land ; by Benj. Tappan, - - 295 



V. On Malaria, - - - - - 300 



VL Tennessee Meteorite, - - - - 326 



VII. Solution of a Problem in Fluxions ; by Prof. Theodore 



Strong, Rutgers College, - ' - - 329 



VIII. All primitive general strata, below granular quartz, are 



cotemporaneous and schistose; by Prof. A. Eaton, 334 

 IX. On the Origin of Springs and Fountains ; by Geo. W. Long, 336 

 X. The science of Mechanics as applied to the present im- 

 provements in the useful arts in Europe, and in the 

 United States : adapted as a Manual for Mechanics and 

 Manufacturers ; by Zachariah Allen, - 338 



