156 Miscellanies. 



York on the 23d of August, 1818 ; from which it appears that, after 

 repeated voyages between New York, Savannah, and Charleston, this 

 vessel left Savannah on the 24th or 25th of May, 1819, for Liverpool, 

 saw Land's End on the 17th of June, and arrived at Liverpool on the 

 20th of June, having used steam thirteen days, and having exhausted 

 her fuel (coal) three days before arrival. It also appears from the 

 log-book that she left Liverpool on the 23d of July, arrived at Elsi- 

 neur on the 9th of August, left Elsineur on the 14th of August, arrived 

 at Stockholm on the 22d of August, left Stockholm on the 5th of Sep- 

 tember, arrived at Cronstadt on the 9th of September, and after seve- 

 ral excursions between Cronstadt, &c., and Copenhagen, &c., left 

 Arundel, Copenhagen, on the 23d of October, and arrived at Savan- 

 nah on the 30th of November ; that she subsequently arrived at Wash- 

 ington from Savannah on the 16th of December, after a passage of 

 eleven days; that slie was sold at Washington in September, 1820, and 

 her engine taken out, after which she sailed as a packet, from New York 

 to Savannah, until September, 1822,when she was lost. This log-book 

 was supposed to derive additional interest from the recent arrival of the 

 Sirius and Great Western, steam-ships, at New York, from England. 



Dr. Mitchell repeated before the Society, Thiloriei-'s process for 

 solidifying carbonic acid, with an apparatus, made under his direction 

 in Philadelphia, somewhat modified from that employed by Thilorier, 

 and froze a quarter of a pound of mercury by the admixture of the 

 solidified acid with nitrous ether. 



May 18, 1838. — The Librarian read the translation of a letter from 

 Pierre de Goetz to Mr. Du Ponceau, dated St. Petersburg, August 

 17th, (29th,) 1837, on behalf of the Imperial Russian Academy, an- 

 nouncing the transmission to the Society of the works which have 

 been published by the Academy, numbering fifty seven volumes, and 

 also of a donation of several volumes from himself personally. 



Dr. Bache announced the death of Thomas Bradford, the latest sur- 

 vivor of the original members of the Society, who died on the 7th of 

 May, 1838, aged 93 years and 3 days. 



Dr. Hare communicated orally, that he has found that when the 

 elements of water are exploded in contact with certain gases or es- 

 sential oils, the aqueous elements, instead of condensing, combine 

 with the hydrogen and carbon, and form a permanent gas. 



June 15, 1838. — A communication was read, dated Cincinnati, May 

 7th, 1838, from Dr. John Locke, on the subject of Magnetic Obser- 

 vations, which was referred. 



Dr. Dunglison announced the death of Thomas W. Griffith, of Bal- 

 timore, a member of the Society. 



July 20, 1838. — Mr. Kane, from the Secretaries, reported that they 

 had chosen Dr. Franklin Bache to be the Reporter of the Society. 



