IV CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANIES. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 



Page. 



1, 2, 3, 4. Alum for ornaments — Cement — Heater or Calorifac- 

 tor — Freezing mixture, ....... 168 



5, 6, 7, 8. A good Safe or victual preserver — Cure for cramp — 



Excellent ink — To silver iron, ..... 169 



9. Movable hood, for smoky cbimnies, ..... 170 

 10, 11. Method of coating busts and plaster casts — Iron cement, 171 



12. Filtration of water for domestic purposes, . . . 172 



13, 14, 15. To render oil casks impermeable — -To purify cold 



short iron — Method of bronzing iron and gun barrels, . 173 

 16, 17, 18. Medal of the Royal Society conferred on Mr. Lyell — 



Maize sugar — Introduction of Burden's boat into France, 174 

 19, 20. Meteorites — Fall of a Meteorite in Moravia, . . 175 



21. Carrara marble, . . . . . . . . 176 



22, 23, 24. Phenakite, new locality — A new antimonuret of nick- 



el — On a double sulphuret of antimony and lead, . . 177 

 25. Brevicite, a new mineral, . . . . . . 178 



^6, 27, 28. Oerstedite — Electricity of peroxyd of manganese — 



Paramorphine and Pseudomorphine, .... 179 



29. A new carburetted hydrogen, ...... 180 



30, 31. On the improvements lately introduced into the iron foun- 



deries of Russia — Cause of dynamic phenomena, . . 181 

 82, 33. On the use of locust wood for the timber work of sub- 

 terranean galleries — On the cause of the " dry rot," . 182 



34. Taxidermy, 183 



35, 36. Statue of Cuvier at Montbeliard — Extraordinary applica- 



tion of gas, . 184 



37. Fossil wax, . . 185 



38, 39. Circulation in insects — Iron, ..... 186 

 40, 41, 42. Rain — -Yale Natural History Society — Academy of 



Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 187 



43. Dr. Harlan's Medical and Physical Researches, . . 188 



44, 45. Peat, (turf,) its application to gas light — New mode of 



preparing supercarbonate of soda, 189 



46. On Veratria, ]90 



47. Impressions of the feet of Mammalia in sandstone, . . 191 



48. 49. Movements on the surface of water produced by the vi- 



brations of glass — Maryland Academy of Science and Lite- 

 rature, .......... 192 



