THE

AMERICAN JOURNAL

or -

SCIENCE AND ARTS.

CONDUCTED BY

Professors B. SILLIMAN AND B. SILLIMAN, JR.,

AND

JAMES D. DANA.

SECOND SERIES.

VOL. VI.- NOVEMBER, 1848.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

Page.

NUMBER XVI.

Art. I. Notes and Remarks connected with Meteorology on Lake

Superior, and on the variations in its level by barometric causes,

and variations in the season; by Prof. Wm. W. MATHER, .

II. Contributions to the Geology of Texas ; by Dr. FerdinAND

Remer, . . . . . . . . . 21

III. On the Orbits of the Asteroids ; by B. A. Gould, Jr., A.A.S., 28

IV. Continuation of the List of Localities of Algæ in the United

States ; by Prof. J. W. Bailey,—with Directions for Collect-

ing and Preserving Algæ, by Dr. Wm. H. Harvey, • . 37

V. Objections to the Theories severally of Franklin, Dufay and

Ampère, with an Effort to Explain Electrical Phenomena

by Siatical or Undulatory Polarization; by Prof. Robert

Hare, M.D., . . . . . . . . 45

VI. Upon a peculiar kind of Isomorphism that plays an important

part in the Mineral Kingdom ; by Professor SCHEERER, ..

VII. On the Construction of Blast-furnaces for the Smelting of

Iron with Anthracite; by S. S. HALDEMAN, . . .

VIII. Notes on some Ferns of the United States ; by Profes-

sor Kunze of Leipzic, 1846.- (Communicated by Dr. G.

ENGELMANN,) . . . .

IX. On the Beneficent Distribution of the Sense of Pain ; by

Mr. G. R. Rowell, . . . . . .

X. On the Absorption of Carbonic Acid Gas by Liquids ; by Prof.

W. B. Rogers, and Prof. R. E. Rogers,

XI. Oxydation of the Diamond in the Liquid Way; by Prof.

R. E. Rogers and Prof. W. B. ROGERS, . , , 110

SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

Chemistry and Physics.-Researches on the Latent and Specific Heat of Bodies,

by C. Č. PERSON, 111.- Note on the means of iesting the comparative value of

Astringent Subsiances for the purpose of Tanning, by ROBERT WARINGTON, Esq.,

112-On the Manufacture of pure Sulphuric Acid, by Aug. A. Hayes, M.D.,

113.

Mineralogy and Geology.-On the Wave of Translation in connexion with the

Northern Drift, by W. WHEWELL, D.D., F.G.S., 115.-On the Slow Ttransmis-

sion of Heat through loosely coherent Clay and Sand, by JAMES NASMYTH, Esq.,

119.-On the Changes of ihe Vegetable Kingdom in the different Geological

Epocbs, by M. ADOLPHE BRONGNIART, 120.-Geology and Topography of the

Isthmus of Panama, by Evan Hopkins, C.E., F.G.S., 123.-Geology and Min-

eralogy of the Malay Peninsula, 129.-On an Impression of the Sofi Parts of an

Orthoceras, 132.- Effect of Fusion on the Density of Rocks : Talus Slopes, 133.

-Burra Burra Copper Mine, South Australia : 'Histoire des Progrès de la Ge.

ologie de 1834 à 1845, par LE VICOMTE D'ARCHiac, 134.