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APRIL, 1810. 

 Engravings of the following Subjects: 1. Mr. Miller's Drag for finding and ral- 



the Body of a Person drowned : 2. His Reel Safeguard, for the Security 

 Person going to the Assistance of one Drowning : 3. His Missile Rope to 



be tlung to a Person in Danger of being drowned : 4. Apparatus of Messrs. 



Allen and Pepys, for the Respiration of Gases by Animals. 



I. A mineralogical Outline of the District containing the Aluminous Schistus. 

 in the County of York, with the entire Process practised in the Manufactory 

 of Alum ; to which is added an Analysis of the Sulphate of Alumine, ' and the 

 Supersulphate of Alumine and Potash, with practical Observations and Re- 

 marks: communicated by Mr. Richard Winter. - - - 241 



II Tools to answer the Purpose of Files and other Instruments, for various Uses, 

 made of Stone-ware, By G. Cumberland, Esq., - - 25T 



III. Remarks on Meteorology. In a Letter from Tliomas Foster, Esq. 239 



IV. On evaporated Matter ; by George Pearson, M. D. F. R. S. 200 



v. Abstract of chemical Experiments on the soft Roe of Fishes ; by Messrs. 

 Fourcroy and Vauquelin _ - - _ 273 



VI. On the Phosphorus, that Seeds afford by Distillation ; and on "Ihe Decom- 

 position of Alkaline Phosphates by Charcoal •: by Theodore de Saussure 27^ 



VII- A simple and secure Method of joining long or bent Metallic Pipes, for 

 Ci emical Purposes; with some Queries. In a Letter from a Correspondent 



284 



VIII. Methods of raising the Bodies of Persons who have sunk under Water, and 

 of assisting Persons in Danger in Water. By John Miller, Esq. of Bedford 287 



IX. On Respiration. By William Allen, Esq. F. R. S. and William Hasledine 

 Pepys, Esq. F. R. S. - - - - 294, 



X. On the Construction of Theatres, so as to render them secure against Fire. 

 In a Letter from Mr. B. Cook - ~ - - 301 



XI. Letter from Mr. Prieur to Mr. Guyton-Morveau, on the double Refraction 

 of Crystals of Sulphate of Copper - . _ gOS 



XII. Table of theRain that fell in various Places in the Year 1809, by the Rev. J. 

 Blanchard, of Nottingham; with a Meteorological Table for the same Year, 

 by Dr. Clarke of that Town - . . . 309 



XII I. Large Fossil Cerite, found by J. ^. Delametherie - 311 



XIV. Reflections on the Species of Moss proposed as a Substitute for Wool in 

 si iiffmg Beds, Furniture, and Garments; by Mr. Parmentier - 312 



Scientific News. - - - - "^ - 313 



Meteorological Journal. _ - , . 320 



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