# The American Journal of Science/Series 1, Volume 3

* CONTENTS OF VOL. III.
| | GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, &c. | Page. |
| | Mr. John Dickson on the Mineralogy and Geology of parts of South and North Carolina | 1 |
| | Ebenezer Granger, Esq. on vegetable impressions in rocks of Zanesville Coal formation | 5 |
| | Dr. G. Troost on the amber of Maryland | 8 |
| | L. Bringier, Esq. on the region of the Mississippi, &c. | 15 |
| | Notice of Mr. H. H. Hayden's Geological Essays | 47 |
| | Prof. F. Hall on ores of Iron and Manganese | 56 |
| | Notice of Mr. Schoolcraft's work on the Missouri leadmines, &c. | 59 |
| | Mr. M. Hale's Geological Notice of Troy | 72 |
| | Dr. J. A. Allen on the West River Mountain, with localities of Minerals | 73 |
| | Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft on the Native Copper of lake Superior, &c. | 207 |
| | Letters of Mr. Alexander Brongniart, with Editor's remarks | 216 |
| | Miscellaneous Notices in Mineralogy, Geology, &c. by various persons | 227 |
| | Professor Buckland on Geological investigations, &c. | 249 |
| | Mr. J. W. Wilson on the bursting of lakes through mountains | 252 |
| | Dr. John L Bigsby on Geology, &c. of the N. W. Portion of Lake Huron | 254 |
| | BOTANY. |
| | W. Prince, Esq. on a hybrid production between the Spanish Chesnut and Maryland Chinquapin, with remarks by Prof. S. L. Mitchill | 77 |
| | Dr. Jacob Porter's Floral and Miscellaneous Calendar of Plainfield, Mass. &c. | 273 |
| | ENTOMOLOGY. |
| | J. C. Vanden Heuvel, Esq. on American Honey Bees | 79 |
| | FOSSIL ZOOLOGY. |
| | Professor J. Green on Bones of the Rattle Snake | 85 |
| | Professor Rafinesque on a Fossil Medusa | 285 |
| | MEDICAL CHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. |
| | Dr. B. L. Oliver on priority of medical use of the Prussic Acid | 182 |
| | Cases illustrating the medical effects of the Prussic Acid | 187 |
| | Dr. F. Magendie on Absorption | 288 |
| | Professor E. D. Smith on Calculous Affections (posthumous) | 300 |
| | MECHANICS AND ARTS, CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. |
| | Upon the fusion of various bodies by Hare's Blowpipe — from the Annals of Chemistry, .&;c. with remarks by the Editor | 87 |
| | —————— new mode of forming water | 91 |
| | Professor Green on instantaneous crystalization | 93 |
| | Mr. S. Morey on Mineral Waters, &c. | 94 |
| | Professor D. Olmsted on a peculiar effect of lightning | 100 |
| | Rev. R. Emerson on the divining rod | 102 |
| | Professor Hare on new Galvanic apparatus and theory | 105 |
| | Professor E. D. Smith on the warm springs of Buncomb county, N. C. (posthumous) | 117 |
| | Remarks on Enfield's Philosophy, third edition | 125 |
| | Mr. Town's new mode of Bridge-building | 158 |
| | J. Hall, Esq. on the staining of wood, and on medical electricity | 166 |
| | Thomas Jarman, Esq. on Gas Lights | 170 |
| | Editor's notice of an argentiferous Galena, &c. | 173 |
| | Editor on the formation of ice in certain circumstances | 179 |
| | Professor A. M. Fisher on Printing Presses and their Theory, | 326 |
| | ———————————— on the new Press of Mr. John I. Wells | ib. |
| | Dr. John Locke on the manufacture of Copperas in Vermont | 326 |
| | Remarks on some points of modern Chemical theory, with a notice of Professor Gorham's Elements of Chemistry | 330 |
| | Miscellaneous chemical notices | 341 |
| | Liability of barns to be struck by lightning | 345 |
| | Jacob Perkins, Esq. on the compressibility of water | 347 |
| | Notice of Mr. Perkins' invention of engraving on steel | 353 |
| | Tests for Arsenic | 354 |
| | AGRICULTURE. |
| | Dr. Eli Ives on spring pasture | 355 |
| | INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. |
| | I.  Domestic. |
| 1. | Archæologia Americana, notice of | 357 |
| 2. | American Geological Society | 360 |
| 3. | Remarks on the study of Geology.   4. Sulphat of Strontian | 363 |
| 5. | Map of mountains.   6. Epidote | 364 |
| 7. | Western Minerva.   8. Annals of Nature.   9. Fossil Fish | 365 |
| 10. | Cold at Plattsburgh | 366 |
| 11. | Crystals of Snow.   12. Fluor Spar of Genesee.   13. Do. of Illinois | 367 |
| | II.  Foreign Literature and Science. |
| 1. | Slide of Mount Pilatus | 368 |
| 2. | Oxigenized water | 369 |
| 3. | Lithographic paper.   4. Ivory paper   5. Manufactory of Glass | 370 |
| 6. | Portable gas lamps.   7. Potash in sea water.   8. Salt.   9. Iron Boat | 371 |
| 10. | Glasgow, how supplied with water.   11. Vegetation.   12. Electrometers | 372 |
| 13. | Surgical operation extraordinary.   14. Royal Society of London | 373 |
| 15. | Prisons.   16. Pompeia.   17. Antidote to Corrosive Sublimate. | 374 |
| 18. | Schools.   19. Manufactory of Thimbles.   20. Auscultation. | 375 |
| 21. | Languages.   22. Evaporation of Spirits.   23. A newly discovered flower | 376 |
| 24. | Chinese Dictionary.   25. Van Diemen's Land. | 377 |
| 26. | Egypt.   27. Temple of Jupiter Ammon.   28. Comforts of travelling in Finland. | 378 |
| 29. | Monument of Pultova.   30. Biography of Linneus   31. Jurisprudence in Switzerland. | 379 |
| 32. | Education of the Poor.   33. Medicine. | 380 |
| 34. | Bible Society of Athens.   35. Dictionary of Greek Language.   36. College of Chios. | 381 |
| 37. | Fruitfulness of the Potatoe.   38. Distillation of Sea Water.   39. New Hydraulic Ram. | ib. |
| 40. | Sea Signals   41. Remarkable Petrifaction. | 382 |
| 42. | Spontaneous Combustion.   43. Magnetism produced by Voltaic Electricity. | 383 |
| 44. | French Translations from the Arabic.   45. New Alkali.   46. Population of Greenland. | 384 |
| 47. | Mildew.   48. Theory of Electricity.   49. Gas illumination. | 385 |
| 50. | Iodine.   51. Mercurial Atmosphere.   52. Connexion between Magnetism and Electricity. | 386 |
| 53. | Notices of Vegetable Remains in Coal Strata. | 389 |
| 54. | Ancient Sarcophagus. | 390 |
| 55. | Siliceous Sinter of the Azores. | 391 |
| 56. | Swainson's Zoological Miscellany.   57. Notice of the Revue Encyclopedique | 392 |
| 58. | Atomic Weights of Bodies.   59. Palermo. | 396 |
| | APPENDIX. |
| | Coca of Peru | 397 |