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