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THE
EDINBURGH
PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL,
EXHIBITING A VIEW OF
PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, NATURAL HISTORY, PRACTICAL MECHANICS, GEOGRAPHY, NAVIGATION, STATISTICS, AND THE FINE AND USEFUL ARTS,
PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;
AND HURST, ROBINSON & CO. LONDON.
1822.
P. NEILL, Printer, Edinburgh.
52874
OF
No. XIII.
Page
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,
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1
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.
p. 289.)
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
by the Author,
X. Analysis of Tutenag, or the White Copper of China.
By ANDREW FYFE, M. D. Lecturer on Chemistry,
Edinburgh, &c.
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28
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4.7
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64
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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
Herbarium,
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,
Esq. Zetland,
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.
By JOHN
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.
& Edin. &c.
Observations on the preceding Paper. By Dr
BREWSTER,
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142
ART. XXII. Notice respecting the House, &c. of Copernicus.
In a Letter from GEORGE HARVEY, Esq. Member
of the Astronomical Society,
144
146
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
151
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,
161
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.)
163
165
XXXII. Proceedings of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, 167
XXXIII. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE,
I. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
173
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