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OF 



SCIENCE ANB ARTS. 



CONDUCTED BY 



BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, M. D. LL. D. 



Piof. Chem., Min,, &.c. in Yale Coll. ; Cor. Mem. Soc. Arts, Man. and Com. ; and 



For. Mem. Geol. Soc, London ; Mem. Geol. Soc, Paris; Mem. Roy. Min. Soc, 



Dresden; Nat. Hist Soc, Halle; Imp. Agvic Soc, Moscow; Hon. Mem. 



Lin. Soc, Paris; Nat. Hist. Soc Belfast, Ire.; PMl. and Lit. Soc 



Bristol, Eng. ; Lit. and Hist. Soc, QyeLec ; Mem. of various 



Lit. and Scien. Soc. in America. 



VOL. XXXI.— No. 2.— JANUARY, 1837. 



FOR OCTOBER^ NOVEMBER, AND DECEMBER, 1836, 



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