CONTENTS OF VOt. t 



Part I. 

 i. A DISSERTATION' on the sufiposed Change in the Temfier. 



ature of Jfinter, By Noah Webster, jun. Esq. - • fi. 1 



II. A Dissertation on the Production of Fafior. By Elizur 



Wright, Esq. 6* 



III. jin Account of the Whitten Plaster. By the Hon. John C. 



Smith, Esq. ...i----- 81 



IV. Sketch of the Mineralogy of the Toim of Mew-IIarven. By 



Benjamin Silliman, Esq. 8S 



V. Mimber of Deaths in the Episcofial Church in JVeiv-Yorkf 



in each month for ten years. Communicated by N. Web- 

 ster, juri. Esq. --.-.-.---- - 9T 



VI. Jin Account of the American Cantharis^ or Meloe America 



By Dr. Nathaniel Dwight. ------ - -99 



VII. A Calculation of the Orbit of the Comet nvhich apfieared in 



1807. By Col. Jared Mansfield. - - - - - lOS 



VIII. Of the Figure of the Earth. By Col. Jared MansfieI-D. Ill 



IX. Observations on the Duplication of the Cubcy and the Trisec- 



tion of an Angle. By Col. Jared Mansfield. - - US' 



X. A Statement of the Quantity of Rain which falls, oh different 



days of the Moon. By J^remiAh Day, Professor of 

 Mathematics in Yale College. 125 



XI. Description of an Air-Pump^ invented by ELiztJR Wright, 



Esq. -.-.--.-.------- 129 



XII. A Brief Account of a Trial at Law, in which the infuence 



of a Mill-Dam on the health of the inhabitants of the neigh- 

 borhood, was considered. By the Hon. David Daggett, 

 Esq. -.----.;---- r - - - 131 

 JCIII. On the Decomposition of White Lead Paint. By Noah 



Webster, jun. Esq. ------- -- - 135 



XIV. An Observation of the Auroral Appearance at Durham, 



Aug. 1, 1783. By the late Rev. Eli2;ur Goodrich, D. D. 137 



XV. An Account of the 'M.eteor, which burst over Weston, in 



Connecticut, in December, 1 807. By Professors Silliman 

 and Kingsley. -.-.-i-. I4i 



XVI. A View of the Theories which have been proposed, to explain 



the Origin of Meteoric Stones. By Professor Day. - - 163 



XVII. Origin of Mythology. By Noah Webster, jun. Esq. - 175 



Part II. 



XVIII. A Dissertation on Chronic Debility of the Stomach. By 

 Benjamin WoolseY Dwight. - ------219 



Part IIL 



XIX. A Disserttitiofi on the Origin of Springs. By Sereno 



E. Dwight, Esq. - -.;- 311 



XX. Experiments on the fusion of various refractory Bodies. By 



Professor Silliman. ^ ---- 329 



XXI. Observations on the Comet of l8l 1. By Professor Day. - 341 



XXII. Calculation of the Longitude of Yale College. By Professors 

 D*Y and Kingsley. ..-- 353 



