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JULY, 1813. 
Engravings of the following subjects : 3 . Diagrams to illustrate a Theory of 
the Tides, including the Consideration of Resistance. 2. Drawing of a 
Machine for reaping Corn, anciently used by the Gauls. 
li — A Theory of the Tides, including the Consideration of resistance. By a 
Correspondent, E.F.G. H. - - - - - 145 
II. — An explanatory Statement of the Notions or Principles upon which the 
systematic Arrangement is founded, which was adopted as the Basis of an 
Essay on Chemical Nomenclature. By Professor J. Berzelius. - 159 
III. — Observations respecting the Figure of a drowned Man formed in the 
Ice of the Pond in Halnak j r Park, and upon the explanations which have 
been offered of that singular Phenomenon. In a letter from Sir George 
Cayley, Bart- - - - 'n ■ 1 67 
IV. — Description of a Machine for reaping, used anciently by the Gauls. 1 70 
V. — Meteorological Journal. - - - 174 
VI. — Notice of a Prize offered by the Medical Society of Edinburgh, for 
the best Essay on the question, <f Whether Azote be absolved during 
Respiration ?” - - - - 17§ 
VII. — Letter from a Correspondent respecting an Error in Mr, Woodhouse’s 
Elementary Treatise on Astronomy. - - - - - 177 
VIII. — -Observations on the ebbing and flowing Well at Giggleswick, in 
the West Riding of Yorkshire, with a Theory of reciprocating Fountains. 
By Mr. John Gough. - - 1 7§ 
IX. — Observations of a Second Comet, with Remarks on its Construction. 
By William Herschel, LL.D. F. R. S. - - 193 
X. — Remarks on the Summer Birds of Passage, and on migration in general. 
By Mr. John Gough. - - 199 
XI. — Letter from Mr, William Close, giving a description of the means of 
causing his hydraulic Apparatus to act with a variable quantity of 
water, - - ----- 210 
Scientific News. - - - <*--211 
AUGUST, 
