The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volumes 95-96

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S. Converse., 1868
 

Contents

XOn the Sulphates of Oxyd of Antimony by W
78
On the Secular Variation of the Elements of the Earths
87
Recent Eruption of Mauna Loa and Kilauea Hawaii 105
105
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE
124
Mineralogy and Geology A system of Mineralogy Descriptive Mineralogy com
134
Botany and Zoology The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
144
Miscellaneous Bibliography A treatise on Meteorology with a collection of
151
Fundamental Principles of Molecular Physics
167
On Faraday as a Discoverer by JOHN TYNDALL 180
180
On Enargite from the Morning Star Mine Califor
201
Notes on the Caucasus by Capt F VON KOSCH
214
On some points in the Geology of Vermont by
222
Astronomy Notice of new Planets 98 99 and 101 WATSON 274 Discovery
275
Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence Seventeenth Meeting of the American Associa
284
The Occultator by THOMAS HILL 299
299
On the Artificial Formation of Organic Substances
327
Notes on the Caucasus by Capt F VON KOSCH
335
Notes on Mr Charles Stodders paper entitled
347
Notes on the Geology of Southwestern Ontario
355
On the action of Sunlight on Bisulphid of Car
363
Observations on the Metamorphosis of Siredon
364
Notice of a new and diminutive species of fossil
374
On Hansens Theory of the physical Constitution
376
Observations of the Auroras of Sept 5th and 15th
390
Chemistry and Physics On the combustion of hydrogen and carbonic oxyd in oxy
398
Botany and Zoology Botanical Notices 408 Contributions to the Fauna of
419
Miscellaneous Bibliography Report of J Ross Browne on the Mineral Resources
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