On the Elements of the Solar System. 129 
He died 30th of July, 1832. Besides eighty single different 
treatises in Chemistry, we are in possession of the following works : 
Elemens de Chimie, 3 vols. in 8vo. 4 edit. 
Traité sur la Salpétre, 1 vol. in 8vo. 1796. 
Essai sur le perfectionnement des arts chimiques en France, 1 
vol. in 8vo. 1800. 
Art de faire et gouverner les vins, l’eau de vie, vinaigre, &c. 2 vol. 
in 8vo. 2 edit. 1801 and 1811. 
Essai sur le Blanchiment, 1 vol. in 8vo. 1801. 
Chimie appliquée aux arts, 4 vol. in 8vo. 2 edit. 1803 and 1707. 
Art de la teinture du coton rouge in 8vo. 1807. 
Art du teinturier-degraisseur, 1 vol. 8vo. 1800. 
De Industrie Francoise, 2 vol. in 8vo. 1819. 
Memoire sur le sucre de betteraves, 3 edit. 1819. 
Chimie appliquée a l’agriculture, 2 vol. in 8vo. 2 edit. 1833 and 
1829. 
Art. XXIV.—On the Elements of the Solar System; by E. H. 
Burritt, A. M. 
Upon receiving the Report of the Council of Astronomers* as- 
sembled in London, Nov., 1830, and which was first published there 
near the close of the last year, I set myself to re-compute the whole 
of the numerical values, pertaining to the solar system, so far as they 
depend upon, or are affected by the elements assumed and concur- 
red in by that convention. 
The pre-eminent qualifications of the men selected to draw up this 
report}, and the peculiar facilities they enjoyed for performing the 
* In the year 1830, reference was made by the Lords Commissioners of the 
British Admiralty to the London Astronomical Society, to consider if any, and what, 
improvements could be made in the \Vautical Almanac: Whereupon, the society 
appointed a council of forty members to consider and report upon the subjects invol- 
ved in the reference. 
+t The sub-committee, appointed by the council, to draw up their report, was 
composed of Sir James South, President, Sir John F. W. Herschel, Professor 
Airy, Professor Siruve, Francis Baily, J. Pond, Rev. Dr. Robinson, C. Babbage, 
Capt. F. Beaufort, R. N., and Lieut. W. S. Stratford, R. N. 
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