80 ANALYSIS OF CHROMATE OF IRON. 



Var and of Siberia, as in that of acid ; and quite as rational 



to cousider them as compounds of the oxides of iron and of 



chrome, as chromates of iron. 



Tfce Siberian Since I have finished the examination of this mineral, 



alysedbj ~ a0 *ds tne author, I have learned, that Mr. Lowitz has 



Lowiu. analysed the same subtance. I know not what are precisely 



the proportions of the principles found by him: but, to 



judge by the note on the subject inserted in the Journal 



de Physique, the results he obtained nearly agree with 



mine; since it says, that he found in the Siberian mineral 



more than half its weight of oxide of chrome, iron, alumine, 



and a little silex. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



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HE Jacksonian Prize of the Royal College of Siirgeons 

 in London, for the year 1811, has been adjudged to 

 Mr. Joseph Hodgson, of Bucklersbury, London, for his 

 dissertation on the diseases of Arteries and Veins; com- 

 prising the pathology and treatment of Aneurism and 

 wouuded Arteries. 



To Correspondents. 



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Mr. LydiatCs paper is obliged to be deferred till next 



month, the plates for both numbers of the Journal for the 



present month having been some time in hand t when it teas 



received* 



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