nists, nor the harmonious periods of the most eloquent writers, have succeeded in imaging to the European mind, features of which there exists no model in the whole compass of its acquirements. How, in fact, can words delineate that luxuriance of vegetation, that variety of forms, those wonderful contrasts, which excite to admiration the most indifferent spectator. An able pencil alone could succeed in delineating some of those majestic beauties; and this has been done by M. the Count de Clarac, with a degree of perfection to which we had scarcely considered it possible to attain. Without being a botanist, he has seized the character of each plant, and has given to all the species which he has represented their peculiar port and grace. The wild fig-trees present themselves with their arches, the mimosas with their finely divided foliage; the arborescent ferns and palms with their simple and elegant forms; the flexible stem of the bignoniæ, bauhiniæ and cissi bend into festoons, twist into cords, and closely tie together the neighbouring plants; the bamboos shoot up to a prodigious height; the cecropiæ display their digitate leaves; the balisier shows its buds, and the parasitic plants invest the fallen trunks with a new covering. In a word, every thing is beautiful in this design, because every thing is in strict accordance with nature; and it is to be wished that it may soon be followed by some others of those with which the portfolio of the author is filled.-Bullet. Universel. ART. XXX.-List of Patents granted in Scotland from 4th December 1823 to 10th March 1824. 33. TO ARCHIBALD BUCHANAN of Catrine Cotton-works, one of the partners of the house of James Finlay and Co. merchants in Glasgow, for "an improvement in machinery heretofore employed in spinning-mills in the carding of cotton and other wool, whereby the top cards are regularly stripped and kept clean by the operation of the machinery, without the agency of hand labour." Sealed at Edinburgh 15th December 1823. 34. TO THOMAS WOLRICH STANSFIELD of Leeds, county of York, worsted manufacturer; HENRY BRIGGS of Laddendeufoot, parish of Halifax, said county, worsted manufacturer ; WILLIAM PRICHARD of Leeds, engineer; and WILLIAM BAR RACLEUGH of Burley, in the parish of Leeds, worsted manufacture, for "certain improvements in the construction of looms for weaving fabrics composed wholly or in part of woollen, worsted, cotton, linen, silk, or other materials, and in the machinery and implements, and methods of working the same." Sealed at Edinburgh 13th January 1824. 35. TO WILLIAM FURNIVAL of Droitwich, salt-manufacturer, and ALEXANDER SMITH of Glasgow, master-mariner, for " an improved boiler for steam-engines and other purposes." Sealed at Edinburgh 13th January 1824. 36. TO THOMAS BEWLEY of Mount-Rath, in Queen's County, Ireland, cotton manufacturer, for certain improvements in wheeled carriages." Sealed at Edinburgh 30th January 1824. 37. TO JOHN HEATHCOTE of Tiverton, county of Devon, lace-manufacturer, for "certain improvements in machines now in use for the manufacture of lace commonly called Bobbin-net, and a new method of manufacturing certain parts of such machines; as also, an improved and economical method of combining machinery used in the manufacture of lace, in weaving and in spinning worked by power; and also a machine for the manufacture of a plaited substance, composed either of silk, cotton, or other thread or yarn." Sealed at Edinburgh 30th January 1824. ༣ ་་, . 38. TO MILES TURNER and LAURENCE ANGELL, both of Whitehaven, county of Cumberland, soap-boilers, for "an improved process to be used in the bleaching of, linen, or cotton yarn, or cloth." Sealed at Edinburgh 30th January 1824. 39. TO THOMAS FOSTER GIMSON of Tiverton, county of Devon, gentleman, for an invention, communicated partly by a foreigner residing abroad, and partly made by himself, "of various improvements in, and additions to, certain machinery now in use for doubling and twisting cotton, silk, and other fibrous substances." Sealed at Edinburgh 20th February 1824. 40. TO SAMUEL BROWN of Printing-House Square, London, engineer, for "an invention of an engine or instrument for effecting a vacuum, and thus producing powers by which water may be raised, and machinery put in motion." Sealed at Edinburgh 25th February 1824. 41. TO PIERRE JEAN BAPTISTE VICTOR GOSSET of St John's Square, parish of Clerkenwell, county of Middlesex, merchant, for a communication by a foreigner residing abroad," of an invention of a combination of machinery for producing various shapes, patterns, and sizes from metals, or other materials capable of receiving an oval, round, or other form." Sealed at Edinburgh 10th March 1824. LIST OF PLATES IN VOL. X. Plate I. Is illustrative of Mr Harvey's paper on the Influence of Magnetism on Chronometers, Page 10 II. Fig. 1. 2. Are illustrative of M. Frauenhofer's Discove- Fig. 3, 4. Represent Mr Kerr's Bent Tubes for experi- Fig. 5, 6. Represent Dr Brewster's Monochromatic III. Represents two Maps of Zenmæ or Yangoma, 26 53 120 59 139 ib. Fig. 3. Is the Windpipe of the Golden-eyed Duck, ib. 140 VI. A Map of Newfoundland, illustrative of the Journey 156 VII. Fig. 1-5. Illustrate Professor Oersted's Account of a 207 222 Fig. 6. Is Mr Cameron's Soda-Water Apparatus, Fig. 9, 10. Illustrate Dr Brewster's paper on a new 251 1 255 325 Fig. 12, 13, 14. Represent a New Species of the Genusson P 292 VIII, Map of Koshanpri, 246 IX. Represents Mr Brunel's New Method of Tunnelling, 276 X. Is illustrative of Mr Haidinger's two papers on the INDEX. A Achromatic Telescopes, on large ones made in France, 364. Analcime, on a new species of double refraction in, 255. Apatite, on the series of crystallisation of, 140. Apparitions, notice of Dr Hibbert's work on the philosophy of, 378. Astronomical observations at Paramatta, 244. Atmosphere of seas, on its chemical nature, 367. Aurora Borealis in Iceland, 366. Avogardo, M. Le Chevalier, on the determination of the masses of mole- B Barnes, Dr, his account of Mary Noble in the 107th year of her age, 125. Bees, observations on, by Rev. Mr Dunbar, 22. Berzelius, M., on new ingredients in mineral waters, 369. Bessel, M., on a reported inaccuracy in his catalogue, 180. Beudant's opinions on certain rocks examined, 67. Boué, Dr, on Beudant's opinions regarding certain crystalline rocks, 67. Brewster, Dr, on a monochromatic lamp, 120.-on a new species of Brinkley, Rev. Dr, his tables relative to the southern motion of the Brisbane, Sir Thomas, on the pendulum, 181.-on the mean tempera- Brunel, Mr, on a new plan of tunnelling, 276. C Cadachio, description of a temple at, 234. Cagnard de la Tour, Baron, on the vaporisation of fluids, 194. Cameron, Mr Charles, his new soda water apparatus, 222. Canal of Petit, Dr Knox's observations on its structure and functions, 323. Cassowary Emeu of New Holland, its structure described by Dr Knox, Caverns, on the low temperature of particular ones, 112. Celestial Phenomena from January 1. to April 1. 1824, 167.-from Chalcedony, on the formation of, 348. Charcoal from different woods, 383.-on its fusion, 193. Chili, earthquake in, described, 56. Chinese year, 201. China, on the introduction of vaccination into, 201. Chronometers, on the influence of magnetism on their rates, 1, 342. Cobeaceæ, on a new natural family of plants so called, 109. Comet of September 1822, 179.-of 1823 and 1824, its elements ac- Comparative Anatomy of the eye, Dr Knox's observations on the, 338. Cumming, Professor, on the relative polarities of the metals, as deve- D Danish Provinces, on the vegetation of, 162. D'Assas, Count, on the parallax of the fixed stars, 325. Davy, Sir H. on a new phenomenon in electro-magnetism, 185. on Davy, Dr John, on the specific gravity and temperature of the sea, 317. Döbereiner on the action of hydrogen on the sub-oxide of Platina, 153. Don, Mr David, on the Cobeaceæ, 109. Double Stars, observations on, by M. Struve of Dorpat, 102, 331. Dunn, Mr, on a whirlwind at Scarborough, 11. E Earth, on an anomaly in its figure, 179. Earthquake, of 1822, in Chili, described, 56.-felt at sea, 378.-effects Electricity produced by separation of parts, 185. Electro-Magnetism, on a new phenomenon in, 185.-account of some new one, 130. Epidote, on its series of crystallisations, 305. Eye, comparative anatomy of the eye, 338. F Fallows, Mr, on unusual parhelia seen at the Cape, 363. Felspar, on its forms and compositions, &c. 196. Field-Mice, on their migration, &c. 373. Fixed Stars, on a method of investigating their parallaxes, 325. Fleming, Rev. Dr, his gleanings of natural history on the coast of Scot- |