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Page. 

 36, 37. Crystal Bed— Compressibility of Water, by Prof. 



Oersted, - - - . . i86 



38. Probability of Life. Comparative results deduced from 



Registers kept at Geneva, and Calculations made 



by Dr. Odier, - - - - 187 



39, 40, 41. Process for discovering and separating Antimo- 



ny from Lead, Brass, and other Metals soluble in 

 Nitric Acid ; by M. Bussolin — Note upon the spon- 

 taneous combustion of Cobalt ; by M. Boullay — 

 Note upon the loduret of Lead ; by M. Berthenot, 188 

 42, 43, 44. Observations upon some properties of Sulphur ; 

 by M. Dumas — Death of the lion. George Knox — 

 Portable Gas, - - - - 189 



n. Domestic. 



1. Temperature of water in wells, observed by Gen. Field, 190 



2. Proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History of New- 



York, ----- 191 



3. Drinking Ice-Water, - - . _ 194 



4. Virginia Aerolite, - - . . 195 



5. Note supplementary to Wright's Theory of Fluxions, 196 



6. Errors corrected in Dr. Robinson's Catalogue of Mine- 



rals, ----- 197 



7. Aurora Borealis, Magnetic Needle, &c. - 199 



8. 9. Carpenter's Chemical Warehouse— Writ for the Med- 



ical Convention of 1830, - - 20O 



