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THE ANNALS of PHILOSOPHY (New Series).
No. 111. for Muck. 1821, published by 13aznwix, Caa-
Dock and JOT, contains as follows:
On,
the Action of Crystallized Bodies on Homogeneous Light,
by J. F. W. Hershel!, Esq. Observations on Van Marum's Me-
moir on the The* of Franklin; Remarks on Mr. Phillips's
Analysis of the The*
i'harmacopotii . - Dr. Ives on the Che-
mical Properties and Economical and Medicinal Virtues of the
Common Hop; On various \natures of Ozymuriate of Potass for
discharging Ordnance • Astronomical and Meteorological Obser-
vations, by Colonel Ordnance;
; On the going of a Clock with a
Wooden Pendulum, by the same; Table of the Decimal Varia-
tion of the Magnetic Needle at .Zwanenberg ; Mr. Deuchar's
Remarks on Discharging Ordnance wit hout Light or a Matchlock;

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On a Machine to Measure a Ship's Way by the Log Line; Mr.
M. Ricardo on the Comparative Advantages of Gas from Oil and.
from Coal; M. Julio, of Abo, on a Substance obtained during
the Distillation of Nitric Acid—Experiments on the Substance,
by Messrs. Phillips and Faraday ; Professor Berzelius on the
Composition of the Prussiates, or Ferruginous ilydrocyanites ;
Mr. Perkins on the Compressibility of Water; Analytical No-
tice of Dr. Paris's Pliarmaoologia ; Proceedings of : hilosophieal
Societies-. 4. Royal Society; 2. Cambridge thilosophical So-
ciety ; Scientific Intelligence; New Baoks ; Patents; Meteo-
rological Tables, &c.
Since Dr. Taintion's residence at Glasgow, be has found it
impossible to do full justice to the active Editorship of a Monthly
Scientific Journal: be has therefore resigned it to Mr. Rims an
Putuars; but the ANNALS will still receive the advantage of,
his valuable assistance; and the Publishers trust that the Work
will be materially improved by this arrangement.

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