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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS. 
Notices of Museums in the South of England, by John Phillips, 
F.G.S. 
October.— A description of the new volcanic island near Sicily; 
communicated by Captain Hotham, R.N. 
November. —On the contents uf a stone coffin,lately dug up in 
Heslington-field, by the Rev. C. Wellbeloved. 
Memoir on the stratification of the Slackness Hills, accompanied 
by a Geological Map of the district, by W m. Smith, Esq. 
December. —Electro^magneiie - experiments, by Wm. Gray, jun.. 
Esq. 
Plan of a hot air bath, by the Rev. Wm. Taylor, A.M. 
Remarks on the change of colour occasioned by the transmission of 
light through plates of coloured glass of the same kind, hut varying in 
number or thickness, by the Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S. 
Notice of a peculiar condition of his own vision, arising from in¬ 
disposition.—On the mean temperature of York, as deduced from 
twenty-five years observations by Jonathan Gray, Esq., by John 
Phillips, F.GJ5. 
January, 1832.—Electro-magnetic, and magnetic experiments, 
by Wm. Gray, jun.. Esq., and John Phillips, F.G.S. 
Summary of observations on the temperature of the -air, and 
quantity of rain at Brandsby, in 1831, by Francis Cholmeley, Esq. 
