THE

EDINBURGH

JOURNAL OF SCIENCE,

EXHIBITING

A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY

IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, BOTANY,
ZOOLOGY, COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, PRACTICAL MECHANICS, GEOGRAPHY,
NAVIGATION, STATISTICS, ANTIQUITIES, AND THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS.

CONDUCTED BY

DAVID BREWSTER, LL.D.

F. R. S. LOND., SEC. R. S. EDIN., F. S. S. A.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY; MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SWEDISH
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; AND OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCIENCES OF DENMARK, &c. &c.

IN FIVE VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

EDWARD LUMLEY,

56, CHANCERY LANE.

1826.

поетви 13, 1946

190

CONTENTS

OF THE

EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE.

No. VII.

ART. I. Biographical Notice of the Abbé Haüy,

II. A Popular Summary of the Experiments of Messrs Barlow, Christie,

Babbage, and Herschel, on the Magnetism of Iron and other Metals, as

exhibited by Rotation. By a Correspondent.

Page

1

13

By Mr JOHN

III. Account of an Improvement on the Galvanic Battery.

HART, Civil Engineer, Glasgow. In a Letter to the Editor.

IV. An Account of the Frontier between the Southern part of Bengal and the

Kingdom of Ava. By FRANCIS HAMILTON, M. D. F. R. S. and F. A. S.

Lond. and Edin. Communicated by the Author.(Concluded from Vol.

III. p. 212.)

V. Proposal for Improving the Phantasmagoria. By WILLIAM RITCHIE,

A. M., Rector of Tain Academy. In a Letter to the Editor,

VI. Notices of Insects of unusual occurrence which have occasionally appear-

ed in great numbers on Trees, &c. By Sir G. S. MACKENZIE, Bart.,

F. R. S. Lond. and Edin. In a Letter to the Editor,

VII. On the Crystalline Forms and Properties of the Manganese Ores. By

WILLIAM HAIDINGER, Esq. F. R. S. E. Communicated by the Author.

With a Plate,

VIII. Account of the Eruption of the Volcano of Jorullo in Mexico. By BA-

RON ALEXANDER DE HUMBOLDT. With a Section of the Mountain,

IX. Observations on Humboldt's Theory of the Volcano of Jorullo. By G.

POULETT SCROPE, Esq. Secretary to the Geological Society,

X. Observations on the apparent Distances and Positions of 389 Double and

Triple Stars. By J. F. W. HERSCHEL, Esq. Sec. R. S. Lond., and

F. R. S. Edin. and JAMES SOUTH. Esq. F. R. S. Lond. and Edin.--

(Concluded from Vol. III. p. 288,)

XI. Notice of an Earthquake felt at Sea, in February 1825. Communicat-

ed by a Correspondent,

By M. FELIX SAVART, 80

XII. Remarks on the Defoliation of Trees. By the Rev. JOHN FLEMING,

D. D. F. R. S. E. &c. Communicated by the Author,

XIII. On the Habits and Food of the Stickleback.

XIV. On the Improvement of the Pipes of Organs.

From a Correspondent,

XV. CONTRIBUTIONS TO POPULAR SCIENCE,

No. V. On the Invisibility of certain Colours to Certain Eyes,

No. VI. Description of the Thaumatrope,

No. VII. Singular Optical Illusion seen through a Telescope,

No. VIII. Variation of the Optical Deception of Le Cat,

No. IX. Optical Illusion in examining a Dioramic Picture,

XVI. On the Quartz District in the Neighbourhood of Inverness. (Con-

cluded from Vol. III. p. 218.) By GEORGE ANDERSON, Esq. F. R. S. E.,

F. S. S. A. and Secretary to the Northern Institution for the Promotion

of Science and Literature at Inverness. Communicated by the Author,

XVII. Description of the Bituminous Rock which occurs in Ross-shire, and

the neighbourhood of Inverness, &c. By GEORGE ANDERSON, Esq.

F. R. S. E., &c. Communicated by the Author,

XVIII. Description of an inverting Sextant Telescope with Nautical Eye-

Tube, for taking Altitudes at Sea when the Horizon is Invisible.

vented by Mr MATHEW ADAM, A M. Rector of the Academy of Inver-

In-

XIX. On the Optical Illusion of the Conversion of Cameos into Intaglios, and

of Intaglios into Cameos, with an Account of other Analogous Pheno-

meria,

XX. Analysis of Picrosmine. By GUSTAVUS MAGNUS, Esq. of Berlin.

Communicated by the Author,

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XXI. On the Means of Detecting Lithia in Minerals by the Blowpipe. By

EDWARD TURNER, M. D. F. R. S. E. &c. Lecturer on Chemistry, and

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Communicated

by the Author,

XXII. On the Apparent Direction of Eyes in a Portrait. By W. H. WOL-

LASTON, M. D. F. R. S. and V. P. With a Plate,

117

XXIII. On the Vegetable Productions of the Island of Madeira. By Dr H.

KHUL,

119

XXIV. CONTRIBUTIONS TO METEOROLOGY,

1. On the Negative Electricity of Showers. By Mr JOHN FOGGO,

2. Account of an Improved Hygrometer,

XXV. Account of the Discoveries and Experiments of the Swedish Chemists

during the year 1825. Drawn up for this Journal by a Correspondent at

Stockholm,

124

ib.

127

1. Professor Berzelius's Discovery of Lithia in Mineral Waters,

2. Professor Berzelius's Experiments on the Orange Gas produced from

a mixture of Fluor-Spar and Chromate of Lead,

ib.

129

3. Account of Professor Berzelius's Method of Detecting Arsenic in the

Bodies of Persons Poisoned,

131

4. Professor Berzelius's Researches on Molybdæna,

133

5. M. Setterberg's Experiments on the Sulphurets of Cobalt,

6. M. Mosander on the Precipitation of Magnesia by Carbonate of

Soda,

ib.

7. M. Mosander's Analysis of the Oxides of Iron, formed by continued

Heat,

XXVI. On some Remarkable Concretions which are found in the Sandstone

of Kerridge in Cheshire. By SAMUEL HIBBERT, M. D. F. R. S. E. and

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M. G. S. Secretary to the Society of Scottish Antiquaries. Communicat-

ed by the Author,

XXVII. Notice regarding the Discovery of Live Cockles in a Peat Moss at a

great distance from the Sea. By JOHN STARK, Esq. M. W S. Com-

municated by the Author,

138

142

XXVIII. Notice of Captain Parry's Last Expedition to the Arctic Regions in

1824 and 1825,

147

XXIX. HISTORY OF MECHANICAL INVENTIONS AND PRO-

CESSES IN THE USEFUL ARTS,

150

1. Description of the Double Weather Sluices invented by ROBERT

THOM, Esq. Rothesay. Communicated by the Author,

ib.

2. Description of a Rotatory Gas-Burner,

153

3. Curious Law respecting the Vibration of Pendulums,

154

4. Reverend Mr Lardner's Method of Securing Carriage Wheels on

their Axles,

XXX. ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS AND MEMOIRS,

I. Account of the Earthquakes which occurred in Sicily, in March 1823.

By Sig. ABATE FERRARA, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the

University of Catania,

II. SCHOW's Essay on Botanical Geography. Copenhagen. 1823,

III. Memoir on the Red Snow of the Arctic Regions. By Professor

AGARDH of Lund,

XXXI. PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES,

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,

155

ib.

ib.

161

167

173

ib.

2. Proceedings of the Society for Promoting the Useful Arts in Scotland, 174

XXXII. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE,

I. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

175

ASTRONOMY.-1. First Comet of 1825. 2. Second Comet of 1825. 3. Third

Comet of 1825. 4. Fourth Comet of 1825, the periodical Comet of Encke.

5. Fifth Comet of 1825. 6. Stars without any proper Motion. 7. Miss

Herschel's Catalogue of Nebula. 8. Mr Pond's Method of Determining

the Direction of the Meridian. 9. Remarkable Effect on the Cambridge

Transit Instrument,
175-177

OPTICS.-10. Committee for the improvement of Glass for Optical purposes.

11. Traces of Polarized Light in Halos. 12. Telescopes without Irradiation.

13. Optical structure of Edingtonite. 14. Phosphorescence of certain

Fluids,

177, 178

ELECTRICITY.-15. Electricity produced by Evaporation. 16. Electricity of

the Atmosphere. 17. Electricity of Flame. 18. Subterraneous passage of

Lightning,

GALVANISM.—19. Analogy between the Phenomena of Galvanism and those
of Fermentation. 20. Avogadro's Multiplying Voltimeter,
METEOROLOGY.-21. Mean Temperature of the Equator. 22. Diminution
of the Temperature with the Altitude. 23. Fall of a Meteoric Stone, at
Nantgemory, Maryland. 24. Hoar Frost on Iron Rails. 25. Mean Height