IV^ CONTENTS. 



Page, 

 MEDICAL CHEMtSTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



Dr. B. L. Oliver on priority of medical use of the Prussic 

 Acid 182 



Cases illustrating the medical effects of the Prussic Acid IS? 

 Dr. F. Magendie on Absorption .... 288 



Professor E. D. Smith on Calculous Affections (posthumous) 300 



MECHANICS AND ARTS, CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. 



Upon the fusion of various bodies by Hare's Blowpipe — from 

 the Annals of Chemistry, .&;c. with remarks by the Editor 87 



new mode of forming water - - - - 91 



Professor Green on instantaneous crystalization - - 93 

 Mr. S. Morey on Mineral Waters, &c. ... 94 



Professor D. Olmsted on a peculiar effect of lightning - 100 

 Rev. R. Emerson on the divining rod ... 102 



Professor Hare on new Galvanic apparatus and theory - 105 

 Professor E. D. Smith on the warm springs of Buncomb 



county, N. C. (posthumous) - - - - 117 



Remarks on Enfield's Philosophy, third edition - - 126 

 Mr. Town's new mode of Bridge-building - - - 158 

 J. Hall, Esq. on the staining of wood, and on medical elec- 

 tricity ..-....- 166 

 Thomas Jarman, Esq. on Gas Lights - - - - 170 

 Editor's notice of an argentiferous Galena, &-C. - - 173 

 Editor on the formation of ice in certain circumstances 179 

 Professor A. M. Fisher on Printing Presses and their Theory, 326 



: on the new Press of Mr. John I. Wells ib. 



Dr. John Locke on the manufacture of Copperas in Vermont 326 

 Remarks on some points of modern Chemical theory, with a 



notice of Professor Goiham's Elements of Chemistry 330 



Miscellaneous chemical notices .... 341 



Liability of barns to be struck by lightning - - 34& 



Jacob Perkins, Esq. on the compressibility of water - 347 

 Notice of Mr. Perkins' invention of engraving on steel 353 



Tests for Arsenic ...-.-- 354 



AGRICULTURE. 

 Dr. Eli Ives on spring pasture .... - 355 



INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES, 



I. Domestic. 



1 . Archaeologia Americana, notice of - - - 357 



2. American Geological Society - - - - - 360 



3. Remarks on the study of Geology ... 363 



4. Sulphat of Strontian -..--- ih. 



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