72 SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Capable of From the experiments above related we may farther con- 



^'uJets^ ^^' *^'"^^» ^^'^^ the oxides of uranium, like several other metals, 



^re capable of combining with water and forming hidrurets ; 



a fact which still further confirms the opinion of Mr. Prou&t 



on this subjec'c. 



XIII. 



071 the Oxides of Copper, by Professor Proust *. 



Oxides of cop- J[ Have just analysed red oxide of copper crystallized In 

 ^"' octaedra. I have found, that it is an oxidp at a minimum, 



and obtained from it 



Red. Copper* • 100 or 84*75 



Oxigen*. 17 or 18.. » 15'25 



The black oxide of copper contains 



Black. Copper. -100 or 80 



Oxigen "So 20. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Werneriqn Natural History Society, 



TVernerianna- J[ HE first meeting of the third session of this Society 

 Socieiy. ^^^ \\e\d in the College Museum at Edinburgh, on the Ai\\ 



of November last. There were then read a learned botani*' 

 cal paper, by Mr. R. Brown of London; proposing a sub- 

 division of the apocinege of Jussieu, to be called ^sclepia- 

 deae ; the first part of an essay on Meteoric Stones, by Mr. 

 G. J. Hamilton; and the concluding part of an account of 

 Fishes found in the Frith of Forth, by Mr. Neil). 



The next meeting was on the 9th of December, when 

 Professor Jameson read an account of a considerable num^- 

 ber of aai'.nals? of the class vermes, which he had observed 

 on the shores of the Frith of Forth, and the c.oa'^ts. of the 



Gein<. found iu Orkney and Shetland Islands ; and aleo a series of obscrva- 

 Scutlaud. 



* Journal de Physique, vol. I.XV, p. 80. 



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