Transactions of the American Philosophical Society-Continued. On Fossil Reliquia of unknown Vegetables in the Coal Strata, by the Rev. Henry Steinhauer, with four Plates. An Account of a large Wen successfully extirpated, by J. S. Dorsey, M.D., with a Plate. An Account of an Improvement made on the Differential Thermometer of Mr. Leslie, by Elisha De Butts, M.D. Plate. Description of a Rolling Draw-gate, as applied to Water-Mills, invented and communicated by Nathan Sellers. Plate. Description of an Indian Fort in the neighbourhood of Lexington, Kentucky, by Charles W. Short, M.D. Plate. Description of an improved Piston for Steam-Engines, without hemp-packing, by P. A. Browne. Plate. On Bleaching, by Thomas Cooper. Plate. Description and Use of a simple Appendage to the Reflecting Lector, which is rendered capable of measuring all possible Altitudes on Land by reflection from an artificial horizon, by Robert Patterson. Plate. Description and Use of a very simple Instrument for setting up Sun Dials, and for many other useful purposes, by Robert Patterson. Observations made at an early period, on the Climate of the country about the River Delaware, collected from the Records of the Swedish Colony, by Nicholas Collin, Rector of the Swedes' Church, Philadelphia. Research concerning the Mean Diameter of the Earth, by Robert Adrain. An Improvement in the common Ship Pump, by R. Patterson (see No. 36). Observation on those Processes of the Ethmoid Bone, which originally forms the Spheroidal Sinuses, by C. Wistar, M.D. Plate. An Account of two Heads found in the Morass, called the Big Bone Lick, and presented to the Society by Mr. Jefferson, by Caspar Wistar, M.D. With two Plates. An Account of a case of Disease, in which one side of the Thorax was at rest, while the other performed the motion of Respiration in the usual way, by Caspar Wistar, M.D. Description of several species of Chondropterigious Fishes of North America, with their varieties, by C. A. Le Sueur. Investigation of a Theorem, proposed by Dr. Rittenhouse, respecting the summation of the several powers of the Sines; with its application to the Problem of a Pendulum vibrating in Circular Arcs, by Owen Nulty. A Monograph of North American Insects, of the genus Cicindela, by Thomas Say. Description and rationale of the operation of a simple Apparatus, which may serve as a substitute for the Ship Pump, and which will require no manual labour whatever; being a Supplement to the paper No. 39, on that subject, by Robert Pat terson. Abstracts and Results from eight Annual Statements (1809 to 1816) published by the Board of Health of the Deaths, with the Diseases, Ages, &c., in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, by John Vaughan. NEW SERIES, VOL. II.-1828. Description of Insects of the Families of Carabai Hydrocanthari of Latreille, inhabiting North America, by Thomas Say. Description and Chemical Analysis of the Retinasphalt, discovered at Cape Sable, Magothy River, Ann Arundel County, Maryland, by G. Troost. Analysis of the Chrysoberyls of Haddam and Brazil, by Henry Seybert. Geological Account of the Valley of the Ohio, in a letter from Daniel Drake, M.D., to Joseph Correa de Serra. Tables of Observations on the Winds, the Currents, the Gulf Streams, the Comparative Temperature of the Air and Water, &c., made on the North Atlantic Ocean during the Twenty-six Voyages to and from Europe (principally between Philadelphia and Liverpool), between the years 1799 and 1817 inclusive, by John Hamilton. Observations on the Trap Rocks of the Connewago Hills, near Middletown, Dauphin County, and of the Stony Ridge, near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, by the Hon. John B. Gibson. An Account of two North American Species of Cyprus, discovered in the State of Georgia; and of four Species of Kyllingia, found on the Brazilian Coast, and on the Rio de la Plata, South America, by William Baldwin, M.D. Catalogue of Plants collected during a journey to and from the Rocky Mountains during the summer of 1820, by E. P. James, attached to the Exploring Expedition, commanded by Major S. H. Long, of the United States Engineers, by whom it was communicated to the Society, with the permission of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War. Remarks on the Sand Stone and Floetz Trap Formations of the western part of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society-Continued. Valley of the Mississippi, by E. P. James, attached to the Exploring Expedition commanded by Major S. H. Long, of the United States Engineers, by whom it was communicated to the Society, with the permission of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War. Some Observations on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Alligator of North America, Lacerta Alligator, Gmel, Crocodilus Lucius, Cuvier. Communicated to the American Philosophical Society by M. N. Hentz, Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Analysis of the Hydraulic Lime used in constructing the Erie Canal, in the State of New York, by Henry Seybert. Papers on various subjects connected with the Survey of the Coast of the United States, by F. R. Hassler. For a list of the several papers contained in this number, see page 420. Mémoire pour accompagner le Tableau des Observations Météorologiques faites à NEW SERIES, VOL. III.-1830. Experiments to determine the comparative Quantities of Heat evolved in the Combustion of the principal Varieties of Wood and Coal used in the United States for Fuel; and also to determine the comparative Quantities of Heat lost by the Ordinary Apparatus made use of for their Combustion, by Marcus Bull. A Grammar of the Language of the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians. Translated from the German MS. of the late Rev. D. Zeisberger, for the American Philosophical Society, by P. S. Du Ponceau. Description of Eleven new Species of North American Insects, by N. M. Hentz, Professor of Modern Languages in the University of North Carolina. Description of six new Species of the Genus Unio, embracing the anatomy of the Oviduct of one of them, together with some Anatomical Observations on the Genus, by Isaac Lea. On the Geographical Distribution of Plants, by C. Pickering, M.D. An Account of some Human Bones found on the Coast of Brazil, near Santas, by C. D. Meigs, M.D. Some Observations on the Moulting of Birds, by George Ord. Experiments made on the Poison of the Rattle-Snakes; in which the Powers of the Hieraceum Venosum, as a Specific, were tested; together with some Anatomical Observations on this Animal, by R. Harlan, M.D. On the Motion of Solids on Surfaces, in the two Hypotheses of Perfect Sliding and Perfect Rolling, with a particular examination of their small Oscillatory Motions, by Henry James Anderson, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Columbia College, New York. General Observations on the Birds of the Genus Tetrao; with a Synopsis of the Species hitherto known, by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano, &c. Conchological Observations on Lamarck's Family of Naiades, by P. H. Nicklin. Some further Experiments on the Poison of the Rattle-Snake, by R. Harlan, M.D. Description of a new Genus of the Family of Naiades, including eight Species, four of which are new; also a description of eleven new Species of the Genus Unio from the Rivers of the United States, with observations on some of the Characters of the Naiades, by Isaac Lea. Remarks on the use of the Maxillæ in Coleopterous Insects, with an account of two Species of the Family Telaphoridae, and of three of the Family Mordellida, which ought to be the Type of two distinct Genera, by N. M. Hentz. Description of a new Species of the Genus Astacus, by R. Harlan, M.D. Notice of an Anatomical Peculiarity observed in the Structure of the Condor of the Andes (Vultur gryphus, Linn.), by R. Harlan, M.D. On the Construction of the Eclipses of the Sun, by John Gummere. Description of a Fragment of the Head of a new Fossil Animal discovered in a Marl Pít, near Moorestown, New Jersey, by Isaac Hays, M.D. Description of a new Genus and new Species of extinct Mammiferous Quadruped, by John D. Godman, M.D. NEW SERIES, VOL. IV.-1834. Grammatical Sketch and Specimens of the Berber Language, preceded by four letters Transactions of the American Philosophical Society-Continued. on Berber Etymologies, addressed to the President of the Society, by William B. Hodgson, Esq. Description of a new Species of Sanacenia, by Thomas Nuttall. Description of a Species of Orang from the North-eastern Province of British East India, lately the kingdom of Assam, by Richard Harlan, M.D. Silver Ores reduced by the Method of Becquerel, by Andres del Rio. Observations on the Naiades, and Descriptions of New Species of that and other Families, by Isaac Lea. Description of a new Genus of the Family Melaniana of Lamarck, by Isaac Lea. Reports of a Committee of the American Philosophical Society, on Astronomical Observations; containing observations made in different parts of the United States, on the Solar Eclipse of February 12, 1831. Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali Media degentium. Secundum observationes Ludovici Davidis de Schweinitz. Descriptions of the Inferior Maxillary Bones of Mastodons in the cabinet of the American Philosophical Society, with Remarks on the Genus Tetracaulodon (Godman), &c., by Isaac Hays, M.D. On Irradiation, by Benjamin F. Joslin, M.D., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Union College, Schenectady, New York. Names which the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians, who once inhabited this country, had given to Rivers, Streams, Places, &c., &c., within the now States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia; and also names of Chieftains and distinguished Men of that nation; with the significations of those names, and Biographical Sketches of some of those men, by the late Rev. John Heckewelder, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Notice of Fossil Bones found in the Tertiary Formation of the State of Louisiana, by Richard Harlan, M.D. Notice of the Discovery of the Remains of the Ichthyosaurus in Missouri, N. A., by Richard Harlan, M.D. Descriptions of New North American Insects, and Observations on some already described, by Thomas Say. NEW SERIES, VOL. V.-1837. On the Diurnal Variation of the Horizontal Needle, by Alexander Dallas Bache, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in the University of Pennsyl vania. Observations on the Naiades, and Descriptions of New Species of that and other Families, by Isaac Lea. On the Visceral Anatomy of the Python (Cuvier), described by Dandin as the Boa Reticulata, by J. P. Hopkinson, M.D., and J. Pancoast, M.D. On the Longitude of the Hall of the American Philosophical Society, deduced from an Occultation of Aldebaran, observed by T. C. Walker, January 5th, 1830. On the Crystals developed in Vermiculite by Heat, by Andus del Rio, Professor of Mineralogy in the American School of Mines. Collections toward a Flora of the Territory of Arkansas, by Thomas Nuttall. A remarkable Arrangement of Numbers, constituting a Magic Cyclo-oolite, by E. Nulty, of Philadelphia. Observations to determine the Magnetic Dip, at Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, West Point, Providence, Springfield, and Albany, by A. D. Bache, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, and Edward H. Courtenay, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania. Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism, by Joseph Henry, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, Princeton; late of the Albany Academy. No. 1. Description of a Galvanic Battery for producing Electricity of different intensities. Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism, by Joseph Henry: No. 2. On the influence of a Spiral Conductor in Increasing the Intensity of Electricity from a Galvanic Arrangement of a Single Pair, &c. Collection of Observations on the Solar Eclipse of November 30th, 1834, made at Philadelphia, Haverford, West Hills, Baltimore, the University of Virginia, Norfolk, Cincinnatti, and Nashville. De Lingua Othomitorum Dissertatio, auctore Emanuele Naxera, Mexicano, Academiæ Literaria Zacatecarum Socio. Practical Rule for calculating from the Elements in the Nautical Almanac the circumstances of an Eclipse of the Sun for a particular place, by John Gummere, Teacher of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in the Friends' School at Haverford, Pennsylvania. Contributions to the Geology of the Tertiary Formations of Virginia, by William B. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society-Continued. Rogers, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Virginia, and Henry D. Rogers, Professor of Geology in the University of Pennsylvania. Observations on the Sulphurous Ether and Sulphate of Etherine (the true Sulphurous Ether), by R. Hare, M.D., Prof. of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania. On the Difference of Longitude of several Places in the United States, as determined by Observation of the Solar Eclipse of November 30th, 1834, by Edward H. Courtenay, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania. On the Reaction of the Essential Oils with Sulphurous Acid as evolved in union with Ether in the process of Etherefication or otherwise, by R. Hare, M.D. Of Sassambrin, a Resin evolved by Sulphuric Acid from Oil of Sassafras, which is remarkable for its efficacy in reddening that acid in its concentrated State, by R. Hare, M.D. Process for Nitric Ether, or Sweet Spirits of Nitre, by means of an approved Apparatus, by R. Hare, M.D. Description of an Electrical Machine, with a Plate, four feet in diameter, so constructed as to be above the operator; also of a Battery Discharger employed therewith, and some observations on the causes of the Diversity in the Length of the Sparks, erroneously distinguished by the terms Positive and Negative, by R. Hare, M.D. On the Causes of the Tornado, or Water-Spout, by R. Hare, M.D. Description of an Air-Pump of a new construction, which acts either as an Air-Pump or Condenser, or as both; enabling the operator to exhaust, to condense, to transfer, a Gas from one cavity to another, or to pass it through liquid, by R. Hare, M.D. Of an improved Barometer Gauge Endiometer, by R. Hare, M.D. On the Cause of the Collapse of a Reservoir while apparently subjected within to great pressure from a Head of Water, by R. Hare, M.D. Sundry Improvements in Apparatus on Manipulation, by R. Hare, M.D. Notes and Diagrams illustrative of the directions of the forces acting at and near the surface of the Earth, in different parts of the Brunswick Tornado of June 19th, 1835, by A. D. Bache. Deductions from Observations made and Facts collected on the Path of the Brunswick NEW SERIES, VOL. VI.--1839. Description of New Fresh-water and Land Shells, by Isaac Lea, Descriptions of New North American Insects, and Observations on some already described, by Thomas Say; continued from Vol. IV., N. S., p. 480. Notice of a Vein of Bituminous Coal recently explored in the vicinity of the Havana, in the Island of Cuba, by Richard Cowling Taylor and Thomas G. Clemson. Observations on the Changes of Colour in Birds and Quadrupeds, by John Bachman, D.D., President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Charleston, S. C. Determination of the Longitude of several Stations near the Northern Boundary of Ohio, from Transits of the Moon and Moon-culminating Stars observed in 1838, by Andrew Talcott, late Capt. of the U. S. Engineers; by Sears C. Walker. On the Magnetic Dip at Several Places in the State of Ohio, and on the relative Horizontal Magnetic Intensities of Cincinnati and London, by John Locke, M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Medical College of Ohio, in a Letter to John Vaughan, Esq., Librarian of the Amer. Phil. Society. New Formulæ relative to Comets, by E. Nulty. Account of a Tornado which, towards the end of August, 1838, passed over the suburbs of the City of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, and afterwards over a part of the Village of Somerset; also an Extract of a Letter on the same subject, from Z. Allen, Esq., of the City of Providence. Communicated by R. Hare, M.D. Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism, by Joseph Henry. No. 3. On ElectroDynamic Induction. Engraving and Description of an Apparatus for the Decomposition and Recomposition of Water employed in the Laboratory of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, by R. Hare, M.D. Improved Process for obtaining Potassium, by R. Hare, M.D. Engraving and Description of a Rotatory Multiplier, or one in which one or more Needles are made to revolve by a Galvanic Current, by R. Hare, M.D. Contributions to the Geology of the Tertiary Formations of Virginia, 2nd Series, by William B. Rogers and Henry D. Rogers. Contributions to the Geology of the Tertiary Formations of Virginia, 2nd Series, continued; being a Description of several Species of Meiocene and Eocene Shells not before described, by William B. Rogers and Henry D. Rogers. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society-Continued. NEW SERIES, VOL. VII.-1841. Observations to determine the Magnetic Dip at various Places in Ohio and Michigan, by Elias Loomis, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College; in a Letter to Sears C. Walker, Esq., M.A.P.S. Letter from the Rev. Charles Gutzlaff to John Vaughan, Esq., on the Chinese System of Writing. Letter from Mr. Duponceau to the same; ordered by the Society to be published, with the preceding one, to which it is an answer. On the Extrication of the Alkalifiable Metals, Barium, Strontium, and Calcium, by Robert Hare, M.D. Astronomical Observations made at Hudson Observatory, latitude 41° 14′ 37′′ N. and longitude 5h. 58m. 42s. W., with some account of the Building and Instruments, by Elias Loomis, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio. Description of an Apparatus for deflagrating Carburets, Phosphurets, or Cyanides, in Vacuo, or in an Atmosphere of Hydrogen; with an Account of some results obtained by these and by other means, especially the isolation of Calcium, by Robert Hare, M.D. Upon a New Compound of the Dento-Chloride of Platinum, Nitric Oxide, and Chlorohydric Acid, by Henry D. Rogers and Martin H. Boje, Graduate of the University of Copenhagen. On the Longitude of several Places in the United States, as deduced from the Observations of the Solar Eclipse of September 18th, 1838, by E. Otis Kendall, Professor of Mathematics in the Central High School of Philadelphia. On the Patella Amæna of Say, by Isaac Lea. Observations of the Magnetic Intensity at 21 Stations in Europe, by A. D. Bache. Additional Observations of the Magnetic Dip in the United States, by Elias Loomis. On a New Principle in regard to the Power of Fluids in Motion to produce Rupture of the Vessels which contain them; and on the distinction between Accumulative and Instantaneous Pressure, by Charles Bonnycastle, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Virginia. On the Storm which was experienced throughout the United States, about the 20th of December, 1836, by Elias Loomis. Observations on Nebula, with a fourteen-feet Reflector, made by H. L. Smith and E. P. Mason, during the year 1839, by E. P. Mason. Engraving and Description of an Apparatus and Process for the rapid Congelation of Water by the explosive evolution of Ethereal Vapour, consequent to the combined influence of Rarefaction and the absorbing power of Sulphuric Acid, by Robert Hare, M.D. On the Insufficiency of Taylor's Theorem, as commonly investigated; with objections to the demonstrations of Poisson and Cauchy, and the assumed generalization of Mr. Peacock; to which are added a new investigation, and Remarks on the Development and Continuity of Functions, by Charles Bonnycastle. Notice of the Oolitic Formation in America, with Descriptions of some of its Organic Remains, by Isaac Lea. Observations to determine the Horizontal Magnetic Intensity and Dip, at Louisville, Kentucky, and at Cincinnati, Ohio, by John Locke, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College of Ohio. Observations upon the Meteors of August, by C. G. Fershey, City Engineer of Natchez, and late Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering, Jefferson Coll., Miss. On the Change effected in the Nitrates of Potash and Soda by the limited application of Heat, with the view of obtaining pure Oxygen, by which they are only partially convertible into Hypo-Nitrites; also on a liquid and a gaseous ethereal compound resulting from the reaction of nascent Hypo-Nitrious Acid with the elements of Alcohol, by R. Hare, M.D. Descriptions of a New Species and Genera of Plants in the natural Order of the Composite, collected in a Tour across the Continent to the Pacific, a residence in Oregon, and a visit to the Sandwich Islands and Upper California, during the years 1834 and 1835, by Thomas Nuttall. Description of Nineteen New Species of Colimacea, by Isaac Lea. NEW SERIES, VOL. VIII.-1843. Contributions to Electricity and Magnetism, by Joseph Henry. Description of an entire Head and various other Bones of the Mastodon, by William E. Horner, M.D., and Isaac Hays, M.D. |