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THE

EDINBURGH

PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL,

EXHIBITING A VIEW OF

THE

PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,
CHEMISTRY, NATURAL HISTORY, PRACTICAL MECHANICS,
GEOGRAPHY, NAVIGATION, STATISTICS, AND THE FINE
AND USEFUL ARTS,

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PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;

AND HURST, ROBINSON & CO. LONDON.

1822.

P. NEILL, Printer, Edinburgh.

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ART. I. On the Chemical Composition of some Minerals of the

Zeolite Family; with an Account of two new Sub-

stances, Mesole and Mesoline. In a Letter to Dr

BREWSTER from M. BERZELIUS,

II. Observations on the Relation between the Optical Struc-

ture and the Chemical Composition of the Apophyl-

lite and other Minerals of the Zeolite Family, in refe-

rence to the preceding Analyses of M. BERzelius.

By DAVID BREWSTER, LL. D. F. R. S. L. &. Sec. R.S.E. 12

III. Observations on Sir ROBERT SEPPING'S Plan for the Cir-

cular Sterns of Ships of War. By GEORGE HARVEY,

Esq. Member of the London Astronomical Society,

IV. Account of Professor REINWARDT's Journey through

the Preanger Regencies of Java,

V. History of the Invention of Pendulum Clocks by Chris-

tian Huygens. By J. H. VAN SWINDEN, Councillor

of State, Prof. of Nat. Philosophy at Amsterdam, &c.

(Concluded from Vol. VI. p. 213.)

VI. New Inquiries into the Laws which are observed in

the Distribution of Vegetable Forms. By Baron

ALEXANDER HUMBOLDT. (Continued from Vol. VI.

VII. Notice respecting Roman(?)Vessels found in Scotland on

the Estates of Sir JOHN HAY, Bart.

VIII. Some Account of those Manuscripts in Great Britain,

which contain the Greek Text of the Mathematical

Collections of Pappus. By S. P. RIGAUD, Esq. M. A.

F. R. S. Savilian Professor of Geometry, and Professor

of Experimental Philosophy in the University of Ox-
ford, &c. &c. Communicated by the Author,

IX. Remarks on the Columnar Structure of Trap-Rocks.

By C. DAUBENY, M. D. M. G. S. Communicated

X. Analysis of Tutenag, or the White Copper of China.

By ANDREW FYFE, M. D. Lecturer on Chemistry,

69

ART. IX. Account of a Map of the Tarout Shan Territory. By

FRANCIS HAMILTON, M. D. F. R. S. L. & E. and

F. A. S. L. & E. Communicated by the Author,

XII. Geological Remarks on the Rock of Gibraltar and

the adjacent Country. By Mr JOHN BAIRD,

XIII. List of the Steam-Boats plying on the River Clyde

in 1822. In a Letter from JAMES SMITH, Esq.

F. R. S. E. to Dr BREWSTER,

XIV. Descriptions of Two New Genera of Nepaul Plants.

By Mr DAVID DoN, Curator of the Lambertian

XV. Notice of a Species of Cannibalism, practised in the

Interior of Sumatra; together with some particu-

lars relative to the Customs of the Inhabitants, and

the Produce of the Country about Tapanooly, in-

eluding the Camphor-Tree. Communicated in a

Letter from India,

XVI. Remarks on the Larus Parasiticus or Arctic Gull;

and on the Larus Rissa or Kittiwake; with an Ac-

count of the Greenland Kittiwake;—and on the

Colymbus Grylle. By LAWRENCE EDMONDSTON,

XVII. On a Species of Earthy Matter spontaneously com-

bustible. By JOHN MURRAY, Esq. F. L.S. M.W.S.

&c. &c. Communicated by the Author,

XVIII. On the Methods of separating Lime from Magnesia.

By C. DAUBENY, M. D. M. G. S.

XIX. Researches on Hydrocyanic Acid and Opium, with

reference to their Counter-Poisons.

MURRAY, Esq. F. L. S. M. W. S. &c. Communi-

cated by the Author.

XX. Report on the Cultivation of Spices at Bencoolen, one

of the British Settlements in the Island of Suma-

tra; addressed to W. R. JENNINGS, Esq. Secretary

to Government, Fort Marlborough. By J. LUMS-

DAINE, Esq.

XXI. On a Remarkable Peculiarity in the Law of the

extraordinary Refraction of differently-coloured

Rays, exhibited by certain Varieties of Apophyl-

lite. By J. F. W. HERSCHEL, Esq. F. R. S. Lond.

Observations on the preceding Paper. By Dr

ART. XXII. Notice respecting the House, &c. of Copernicus.

In a Letter from GEORGE HARVEY, Esq. Member

of the Astronomical Society,

XXIII. Account of a singular Experiment depending on the

Polarisation of Light by Reflexion. By DAVID

BREWSTER, LL. D. F. R. S. L., & Sec. R. S. E.

XXIV. Account of a Free Escapement, with considerable

reduction of Friction. By URBAIN JURGENSEN,

Chronometer-maker to the Danish Navy, & Mem-

ber of the Royal Soc. of Sciences at Copenhagen, 148

XXV. On the Formation of Valleys, Bays, and Creeks.

By the Rev. GEORGE YOUNG, M. A. Whitby,

XXVI. Account of the Eruption of the Old Volcano of

Eyafjeld Jokkul in Iceland, in December 1821, 155

XXVII. Analysis of a Paper on the Finite Extent of the At-

mosphere. By W. H. WOLLASTON, M.D. V.P.R. S. 157

XXVIII. Magnetical Observations made at Bushy Heath, near

Stanmore. By Colonel BEAUFOY, F. R. S. Com-

municated by the Author,

XXIX. Celestial Phenomena, from July 1. to October 1.

1822, calculated for the Meridian of Edinburgh,

Mean Time. By Mr GEORGE INNES, Aberdeen, 162

XXX. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

(Concluded from Vol. VI. p. 372.)

XXXI. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History So-

ciety. (Continued from Vol. VI. p. 374.)

XXXII. Proceedings of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, 167

XXXIII. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE,

I. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

ASTRONOMY. 1. Great Comet of 1811. 2. Greenwich Obser-

vations on Venus and Jupiter, compared with the Tables

of Lindenau and Bouvard. 3. Longitudes deduced from

the Solar Eclipse of 7th Sept. 1820. 4. Astronomical Posi-

tions of Places. 5. Comet of 1821. 6. Supposed Volcanoes

in the Moon. 7. Perturbations of the New Planets. 8.

Right Ascensions and Declinations of Juno. 9. Right As-

censions and Declinations of Vesta. 10. Declinations and

Meridional Passage of Ceres. 11. New Comet of 1822.

12. Visibility of the Planet Venus,
173-178

OPTICS. 13. Laws of Polarisation in rectangular Plates of Glass.

14. Frauenhofer's Experiments on the Prismatic Spectrum.

15. Frauenhofer's Experiments on the illuminating Power

of the Prismatic Rays. 16. Frauenhofer's Experiments on

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