CONTENTS. -V 



Page. 



Letter to the Editor, on some improved forms of the Gal- 

 vanic Deflagrator, &c. by Prof. R. Hare, M. D., - 347 



Abstract of Mr. Faraday's experiments on the condensation 



gasses, (Edinb. Philos. Journ. No. XVIII.) - - 352 



ANTIQUITIES. 



On the Celtic Antiquities of America, by John Finch. F.B.S. 149 



EDUCATION. 



Notice of a new work entitled, " Flans for the Instruction 



and Government of Boys," - - - - - I6l 



INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 



I. Domestic. 



Professor Cleaveland's Notice of the late Meteor in Maine, 170 



Proceedings of the N. Y. Lyceum of Natural History, - 171 

 Velocity of the Mississippi, - - - - - -174 



Mr. Hitchcock's New Mineralogical Hammer — Naviga- 

 tion of Rapids, ----... IT'S 



Furnace for Ventilating Sewers, - . - - - 177 

 Dr. Torrey's Flora of the N. and M. States— Finch's Geol- 

 ogy, - - - 178 



American Geological Society — Prof. Dutton's Conic Sec- 

 tions and Spherics, --.-.. 358 

 Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts — Annals of the 



New York Lyceum, -.--.- 359 



Griscom's Journal — Dr. Van Rensselaer on Salt, - - 369 



New Work on Dying, --.... 3G2 



II. Foreign. 



Analysis of Brongniart, " Sur les Vegetaux Fossiles,^^ - 178 

 Carlsbad Waters and Uranium, - - - - - 185 



Drought in Sicily — Secondary Granite — A new Fluid in 



the cavities of Minerals, - - - - - 186 



Pyro-Cetric Acid — Hydro-Carbo-Sulphuric Acid, - - 187 

 Brard, Mineralogie — Fumigation, - - - - 188 



Society of Christian Morals — Flour and Meal from Legumi- 

 nous Fruits, . - - - - - -189 



American Plough — Improvement in Metallic Casting — Ca- 

 nal Navigation, 190 



