Meteorological Registers, and Reports of Agricultural Experiments: and interesting Miscellaneous Articles, not perhaps exactly included under either of the above heads.
Communications are respectfully solicited from men of science, and from men versed in the practical arts.
Learned Societies are invited to make this Journal, occasionally, the vehicle of their communications to the Public.
The Editor will not hold himself responsible for the sentiments and opinions advanced by his correspondents: he will consider it as an allowed liberty to make slight verbal alterations, where errors may be presumed to have arisen from inadvertency.
[CONTENTS.]
| Page | |
| Introductory Remarks | [1] |
| Art. I. Essay on Musical Temperament, by Professor Alex. M. Fisher | [9] |
| MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY. | |
| Art. II. Review of Cleaveland's Mineralogy | [35] |
| Art. III. New Locality of Fluor Spar, &c. | [52] |
| Art. IV. Carbonat of Magnesia, &c. discovered by J. Pierce, Esq. | [54] |
| Art. V. Native Copper, near New-Haven | [55] |
| Art. VI. Petrified Wood from Antigua | [56] |
| Art. VII. American Porcelain Clays, &c. | [57] |
| Art. VIII. Native Sulphur from Java | [58] |
| Art. IX. Productions of Wier's Cave, in Virginia | [59] |
| Art. X. Mineralogy and Geology of part of Virginia and Tennessee, by Mr. J. H. Kain | [60] |
| Art. XI. Notice of Professor Mitchill's edition of Cuvier's Geology | [68] |
| Art. XII. Notice of Eaton's Index to the Geology of the Northern States, &c. | [69] |
| Art. XIII. Notice of M. Brongniart on Organized Remains | [71] |
| BOTANY. | |
| Art. XIV. Observations on a species of Limosella, by Professor E. Ives | [74] |
| Art. XV. Notice of Professor Bigelow's Memoir on the Floral Calendar of the United States, &c. | [76] |
| Art. XVI. Journal of the Progress of Vegetation, &c. by C. S. Rafinesque, Esq. | [77] |
| ZOOLOGY. | |
| Art. XVII. Description of a new Species of Marten, by C. S. Rafinesque, Esq. | [82] |
| Art. XVIII. Natural History of the Copper-Head Snake, by the same | [84] |
| PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY. | |
| Art. XIX. On a Method of augmenting the Force of Gunpowder, by Colonel G. Gibbs | [87] |
| Art. XX. On the connexion between Magnetism and Light, by the same | [89] |
| Art. XXI. On a new means of Producing Heat and Light, by J. L. Sullivan, Esq. | [91] |
| Art. XXII. On the Effects of the Earthquakes of 1811, 1812, on the Wells in Columbia, South Carolina, by Professor Edward D. Smith | [93] |
| Art. XXIII. On the Respiration of Oxygen Gas in an Affection of the Thorax | [95] |
| MISCELLANEOUS. | |
| Art. XXIV. On the Priority of Discovery of the Compound Blowpipe, and its Effects | [97] |
| Art. XXV. On the Northwest Passage, the North Pole, and the Greenland Ice | [101] |