INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 



1. DoMESxrr. 



I'age 



Impressiorisof Plants in the Anthracite of Wilkeabarre, - - 165 

 Lead Veins of Massachusetts, ----._ iqq 



Method of Browning- Iron, - - 168 



Lacker for Brass — Seed-lac Varnish — Use of Sulphur in Rheuma- 

 tism — Illuminating Gas from Cotton Seed, - . _ . i6& 

 Meteorological Journal, - - - - - - - 171 



Dr. Cutbush on Pyrotechny, — Americau Sculpture, - . - 173 

 Phosphate of Lime from Williamsburgh, - - - . 174 



Minerals on Connecticut River — Pittsfield Ijyceum, . - - 177 

 American Geological Society, ---... 173 



Mr. Hitchcock's Geol. Sketch of the country on Connecticut River, 179 



Topaz? 180 



Note to Prof. Hare's Letter on the Galvanic Deflag-rator, - 101 



American Geological Society — Proceeding-s of the Lyceum of Nat- 

 ural History of New- York, --__.. 337 

 Franklin Institute, - - - - - - - - -391 



South Carolina Medical School; - 392 



Meterological Tables, 394 



Cold at the head of Lake Superior — Hot Weather — Valuable Relic, 395 

 Dr. Robinson's Catalogue of American Minerals, - - .. 396 

 Dr. Van Rensselaer's Geology — Cryp.ogamic Flora of North Amer- 

 ica — Fauna Americana — Col. George Gibbs — Lehigh Coal, - 397 

 Mineralogy of the Coast of Labrador, and of the shores of the St. 



Lawrence, __.__... 393 



Eye Infirmaries — Non-descript Animal, - - - _ _ 399 

 Aerolite of Maine — Mineralogical Notice, - - _ _ 400 

 Bolles's Trigonometer — Amethyst of Rhode-Island, - - - 401 

 West-Point Minerals, . 402 



2. Foreign. 



Mutual Libtruclion in Sweden, -----__ 1(32 

 Deaf and Duiiib — Gold Mines of Russia — Copenhagen, - - 183 

 Steam Boats — Pi-ussia — Prague — Goethe — Zurich, - - - 184 

 Anatomy — Elementary Instruction in Brussels — Public Instruction 



in Friburg, ---183 



Rome — Faune Francaise — Warsaw University, . . _ 186 



Rural School — Instruction in Lisbon — Charity in France — Lille, 187 

 loduret of Potassium — Camera Lucida, ----- 18J; 



Compressibility of Water — Elaine from Oils — Soap, - . - 189 

 Ammonia in the Rust of Iron, - - - _ . - 191 



Roman Cement, - - - - - - - - -192 



Electricitj' — Capillary Action of Fissui'es, - ■■ - - 193 

 JMeteoric iron — Rain in Paris — Muiiate of Lime, - - - 194 

 Diamond — Atmospheric Tides — Liquefied Sulphurous Acid, - 19a 

 Artificial Incubation, ---.._„_ 195 



Patents— Syphon— Art of Baking, .... l*};; 



