SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



MEMOIR 



EXPLOSIVENESS OF NITRE, 



WITH A VIEW TO ELUCIDATE ITS AGENCY 



TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION OF JULY, 1845, IN NEW YORK. 



By ROBERT HARE, M.D., 



EMERITUS PROF. OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND ASSOCIATE 

 OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



ACCEPTED FOR PnBLICATION 



BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



OCTOBER, 1849. 



VOL. II. ART. 7. 



