The American Journal of Science/Series 1, Volume 3

by Benjamin Silliman

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