vm CONTENTS. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Page 

 Art. XVII. Description of a new Species of Marten, by 



C. S. Rafinesque, Esq 82 



Art. XVIII. Natural History of the Copper-Head Snake, 



by the same 84 



PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. 



Art. XIX On a Method of augmenting the Force of 



Gunpowder, by Colonel G. Gibbs . . .87 



Art. XX. On the connexion between Magnetism and 



Light, by the same ........ 89 



Art. XXI. On a new means of Producing Heat and 



Light, by J. L. Sullivan, Esq 91 



Art. XXII. On the Effects of the Earthquakes of 1811, 

 1812, on the Wells in Columbia, South 

 Carolina, by Professor Edward D. Smith . 93 



Art. XXIII. On the Respiration of Oxygen Gas in an 



Affection of the Thorax 95 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Art. XXIV. On the Priority of Discovery of the Com- 

 pound Blowpipe, and its Effects .... 97 



Art. XXV. On the Northwest Passage, the North Pole, 



and the Greenland Ice 101 



