SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS 
TO THE 
GENERAL MEETINGS. 
February, 1832_On the methods employed in Russia for 
purifying and rendering malleable the Platinum of the Oural Mines, 
by Wm. Marshall, F.G.S. ^ 
On the Oscillations of the Barometer, by John Phillips, F.G.S. 
Description of Lestris Pomerinus, shot off the coast of Scarborough, 
October, 1831, by W. H. Rudston Read, Esq. 
Summaries of Meteorological Observations for the year 1831, at 
Ackworth, by Luke Howard, Esq.; atBrandsby, by Francis Cholmeley, 
Esq .; at Huggate, by the Rev. T. Rankin. 
March. —Results of Observations on the Oscillations of the Ba« 
rometer, mean and extreme temperatures, and quantities of rain falling 
at different heights, during the months of November, December, January, 
and February last, by Wm. Gray, jun. Esq., and John Phillips, F.G.S. 
April. —Description of a Barometer with an amplified vertical 
scale, by '\Filliam Wharton, Esq. 
* Phil. Mag. and Journal, for May, 1832. 
