CONTENTS. V 



OCTOBER, 1808. 



Engravings of the following Objects: 1. Mr. Gilpin's Machine for raising 

 (?oals. Ore, &c. : 2. Mr. C. Wilson's secure Sailing, or Life Boat: 3. Mr. 

 J. W. Boswell's Improved Capstan. 



I. Method of making a Composition for Painting in Imitation of the ancienfc 

 Grecian Manner, with Remarks. By Mrs. Hooker, of Rottingdean, near 

 Brighton - - - - - - SV 



II. On Oxalic Acid. By Thomas Thomson, M.D. F.R. S. Ed. Communicated 

 by Charles Hatchett, Esq. F. R. S. - - - 8Q 



III. An Account of the Application of the Gas from Coal to economical Pur- 

 poses. By Mr. William Murdoch. Communicated by the Right Hon. Sir 

 Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P. R. S. - - .94 



IV. Farther Experiments on the Spleen. By Everard Home, Esq. F. R. S. 103 



V. Account of a new Machine f®r raising Coals, or other Articles, from Mines, 

 by Mr. Gilbert Gilpin, of Old Park Iron Works, near Shifnal 1 1 1 



VI. Remarks on Mr. Cough's Essay on Polygonal Numbers ; by P. Barlow, 

 Esq, - - - ' - - 118 



VII. Some farther Remarks on the Doctrines of Chance, in a Letter from a 

 Correspondent - - - - - 121 



VIII. Description of a secure Sailing Boat, or Life Boat. By Mr. Christopher 

 Wilson, Richard-street, Commercial Road - - 12^ 



IX. Description of a Capstan, that works without requiring the Messenger or 

 Cable coiled round it to be ever surged. By J, Witley Boswell, Esq., of 

 Clifford's Inn - - - - n 133 



X. Letter from Dr. Beddoes on certain Points of History, relative to the Com- 

 ponent Parts of the Alkalis, with Observations relating to the Composition of 

 the Bodies termed Simple . - - . 139 



XI. Analysis of some metallic Sulphurets. By Mr. Gueniveau, Mine 

 Engineer - - • - - - - 142 



XII. Analysis of a Carbonate of Lime from Pesey: by Mr. Berth! er. Mine 

 Engineer ..,.-.- 150 



XIII. Chemical Examination of the Stalk of Indian Corn, Tea Mays Lm., to 

 ascertain whether the Saccharine Matter it contains be capable of Crystal- 

 lization; by Mr. V. Auarie, Apothecary at Valence, Department of the 

 Drome - - - - - - 153 



XIV. On the Culture of Spring Whsat, and the Use of Tincture of Opium in 

 the Diseases of Cattle: by Major Spencer Cochrane, of Muirfield House, 

 near Haddington, North Britain - - - - 156 



Scientific News - - - - - 159 



Meteorological Journal - - - - - 150 



NOVEMBER. 



