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'veying coals and other minerals in the working of mines, or below ground, and of returning the empty vessels and carriages. April 27.

To William Bell, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, engineer; for his improvements in making pipes, or pumps, for conducting water and other liquids. April 30.

To Edward Coleman, Professor at the Veterinary College, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex; for certain improvements in the construction and application of a horse-shoe, which will completely prevent several diseases to which the feet of horses are subject, more especially that very general disease called contraction of the hoof; and is also particularly adapted for flat convex feet, for horses of cavalry, and for hunting; and for all other purposes where the loss of a shoe is productive of great inconvenience. April 30.

METEOROLOGY.

Meteorological observations in a tabular form compress so much information in a small compass, and facilitate comparisons in such a manner as to render them highly useful. In both of these views the following tables cannot but prove acceptable to many of our readers. The estimate of rain has been given to the public for several years: Dr. Clarke's meteorological table did not commence till last June, but we understand that gentleman means steadily to pursue the same plan.

To facilitate pursuits of this kind, it is of importance that such a rain gauge should be provided as may collect all the snow as well as rain that may fall, and so arranged that the danger of bursting in a time of frost may be averted. A correspondent suggests that this object may be gained by admitting the common gauge into a hot-house kept at the temperature of 60° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, placing the large end of the cone at the top, in one of the squares now occupied by a pane of glass. Should any better method for obtaining such a desideratum present itself to any of our readers, we shall be happy in being enabled to communicate it to the public.

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Quantity of Rain, which fell at the following Places in the Year 1807. In Inches and Decimals. By the Rev. J. BLANCHARD, of Nottingham *.

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A Meteorological Table from June to December, 1807. By Dr. CLARKE, of Nottingham.

The following observations on the thermometer are made at 8 A.M 2 P. M. and 11 P. M and on the barometer at 2 P. M. The former instrument is placed in the open air, exposed to the west, but in a situation sur rounded by buildings, which prevent any alteration of temperature from currents of air. The direction of the wind is taken from the vane of St. Peter's church; and the numbers state how often it has been observed in any particular quarter during the month.

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* Any communications on this branch of Meteorology will be thankfully received by the Rev. J. Blanchard, Master of the Academy, Nottingham.

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N. B. The Barometer's height is taken at one o'clock.

INDEX TO VOL. XXX.

ACADEMY, St. Petersburg 93

On decom-

36

Acetate of Barytes.
position of by soda
Acid, acetic, with alcohol. On 64
Acid, muriatic. On radical of 10;

gr

Albumen and bark. On
Alcohol. Experiments with on
muriates, &c.
64

Alkalies. Combination of with
oils

42

Composition of, 366

367

284

Allen on respiration,
African Society
Analysis of chromate of iron 223
Angelica antiseptic to cattle 190
Antiquaries. Society of 182
Ardent siprit made from leaves
and prunings of vines 226
Astronomy. 67, 127, 227, 347

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66

Camphorated water. Peculiar
property in,
Carey's meteorological tables, 96,
191, 288, 377
Carnot. On machines, 8, 154,
207, 310. Works of, 270
Cattle, remedies for, 94, 190
Cement which resists fire and wa-
ter,
190

Chemical agent. Time one, 193
Chinese radish. Oil of,
Chromate of iron.

372

Analysis of,

223

337

158

Clarke's meteorological table, 376
Cobalt. On,
Combustion. On,
Comet of 1807. On, 67, 182
Corsica. Account of,
351
Cotton. On dyeing in India, 259,
325, 373; culture of, in
France,
Granites. On,
Cuvier on elephants,

373

92

15

Darcet on decomposition of ace-
tate of barytes,

182 Darwiniana,

Davy's bases of alkalies confirm-

- pure. On

36

Basaltes. On

109

Bats. On torpidity of,

249

Bermuda islands.

Description

ed,

366

of,

331

Diseases, contagious.

Fumiga-

Berthollet on time as a chemical

tions for,

26

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Geology,

182, 187, 282, 296

207, 310

183

Magnesia. Mine of,
Mammoth. On the,

208

284

Geological Society,
Gilding, false, to prepare, 221

Hall on economical uses of vine
leaves and prunings,
226
Hawkes's system of music. On, 3
Herschel on Newton's concentric
rings, 72, 115, 195. On comet
of 1807, 182. On Olbers's new
planet,
227
Hides, how dressed in India, 328
Home on functions of the spleen
92

Howard and Co.'s new prepara-
tion of calomel
93, 133
Hume on sulphur as a vermifuge,
71
Hume on the identity of silex
and oxygen, 165, 274, 356

India. On buildings in, 221;
manufactures of, 259, 322
Indigo cultivated in France, 189
Insects. On destroying, 71
Iron. Chromate of,
223

Jameson on cotemporaneous or
enclosed veins, 187; on minera-
logical maps, 281; queries, 369
Jewel's new calomel,

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133

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field's,
Muriatic ether. On,
Muriates, metallic, with
On,
Musical temperament. On, 3

46, 176

ΙΟΙ

alcohol.

64

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Nautical invention,
Nickel. On,

Nettles antiseptic to cattle, 190
Newton's concentric rings. On,
72, 115, 195
Nomenclature, chemical. On, 320

Oil, manufacture, of in India, 329
Oil of Chinese radish. Uses, 372

191

337

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