CONTENTS. 7 



Russian Establishment — Lunar Volcanoes. - - . 176 



Hydrophobia, remedy for — Padua — Libraries of St. Petersburgh, 177 



Aurora Borealis, - - - - - - 178 



Geneva — Naples, Surgery— Obituary in France, - - - 179 



Ellious Boethor — Botany, . . _ _ ... igQ 



Oriental Style — Statue of Luther — Dutch Canal, - _ . igi 



Cutlery — Damascus Steel — Instruction in Latin by Ordinaire, - 182 

 Physiology, .-.-.....„ 185 



New mode of taking a fac simile, ----- _ 186 



Mineral Waters, i87 



Incombustible cloth — Cobalt — Pyrolignous acid, ... 188 



Signal lights — Merino sheep and wool — Enamel for porcelain, - 189 

 Magnetism — Orangeries — Agriculture — Measurment of the meridfan, 190 

 Gymnastics — Marseilles— Mutual instruction — Zeal for antiquity — 

 Hospitals in France, - - - - - - . 191 



Animal Magnetism, .-----... 192 



Bavaria — Mineralogy — Vesuvius — Necrology — A new mineral, - 193 

 Society of Christian morals, .-.-.. . 194 



Analysis on an ore of Silver, - - . . _ 377 



Solubility of Magnesia — Heat, - - . . . 378 



Means of preserving eggs — Steam Boats in Sweden — Mechanic's Soci- 

 ety for the advancement of the Arts at Geneva, - . . 379 



Mutual Instruction at Geneva Rural Economy Agriculture at 



Liege — Netherlands, - ---..- 380 



Brussels — Encouragement to Science — Amsterdam — Royal Academy 

 of Paintings ther^ — Bourdeaux, - - -- - - - 381 



Astafort — ^-Mutual Instruction — School at Caen — Linnean Society at 



Paris, ..--.--- 382 



Religious Tract Society at Paris — Conservatory of arts and trades 



there, - - - 383 



Mineralogy — Himalaya Mountains — Tribe of Scotacks, - - 384 



Geneva — A printing press for the blind — Progress of the German lan- 

 guage in Italy — Rome, -..-._ - 385 

 Lithography — Maestricht — Besangon — France — New Astral lamp, 386 

 Carpet for the hall of the throne at Paris — Iodine as a medicine — Muri- 

 ate of copper, and nitrate of soda in Peru, ... - 387 

 Arenilla — Galvanic instruments — Electro Magnetism, - 388 — 391 

 Estimation of the water which flows down the Rhine at Basle, - 392 

 Hospital of Mount St. Bernard — Extensive draining, - - 393 

 Galvano-magnetic condenser — A soft crystal of quartz, - - 394 

 Interesting Galvanic Instrument, - - - - 395 

 Ingenious instrument for shewing the effect of Electro-Magnetism — Iron 



Steam Boat, -.-..-- 396 



Canal steam navigation — Mr. Brongniart's notice of American speci- 

 mens of Organic remains — Letter from Prof. Berzelius, - 397 

 New Edition of Parkes' Chemical Catechism, - = - - 398 



II. Domestic, 



Singular effects of nitrous oxid, - - - - 194 



Progress of American Science — Comparison between American and 



European Geology, _ _ - - - 197 



Delaware Society — Electrical attraction, - - - 198 



Fermenting Pond, - - - - - - 199 



Optical Trap — Conducting power in relation to radiant matter, - 200 



Spontaneous combustion, . . . . . 201 



