[2] Memoir--New Monthly Magazine, Vol. I. Mr. Dillon has lately invented an _Improved Safety Lamp_, an Engraving of which will be found at page 137, Vol. XII. of the MIRROR. [3] It deserves notice, that two of the most illustrious philosophers of our times, Sir H. Davy and Dr. Wollaston, have died within the present year. [4] Extract of a Letter from Geneva, dated June 1, 1829--_Times_. [5] These experiments, the last which engaged Sir Humphry Davy's attention to any extent, were on the application of electrical combinations, for the purpose of preserving the copper sheathing of ships' bottoms. To this subject Sir Humphry gave much of his time, and personally inspected all the boats and vessels on which the trials were made. Although the theory upon which they were conducted proved eminently correct, no advantage could be ultimately taken of the plans which it suggested. The saving of the copper was wholly counterbalanced by an accumulation of shell-fish and sea-weed on the sheathing, which became sufficient, in a short time, to prevent the proper command of the ship at the helm. [6] Abridged in the Arcana of Science and Arts for 1829. [7] _Salmonia_, 1st. Edition, page 161. Several beautiful Extracts from which, will be found in Vol. XII. of the MIRROR. * * * * * INDEX TO VOL. XIII Abernetheyana Actor, The African Festivities Nurse Widow Agave Americana Air Balloon, Lines on Alderman, Antiquity of Alehouse Signs Algiers, Sketch of the battle of Alnwick Freemen Altitude of Public Buildings Alvise Sanuto, a story Ambition, Lines on American Comforts Law Sea Serpent Song Birds Anecdotes of Canning and Moore Animal Food Anne Boleyne, Marriage of Anne of Geierstein, by Sir Walter Scott Outline of the Story, &c. Anticipation, Lines on April Fools, Lines on Arab, Lay of the Wandering Arctic Adventures Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury Auctions, Antiquity of Aurora Borealis Austin Friars, Church of Avver Bread Bachelors, Advice to Bad Writing Ball, Lines on Balloon Ascent, Recent Bamborough Castle Banana Tree Banditti, South American Bannockburn, a ballad Baron's Trumpet Bazaar, Oxford-street Bears on the Ice Beauty, On Bees, Food of Instinct of Management of Beet Root Sugar Bird of the Tomb, a poem Birds, Crop of Birds' Nests Bishops, Magnificent Blackheath, Cave at Blind Girl, The Boarding, Custom of Bolivar, Memoir of Book-machinery Box-tree, The Boxes, The Brazilian Slave Trade British Artists' Society Diorama Broiling Steaks, a Story Broken Heart, The Brandon, Charles, of Suffolk Bruce Castle, Description of Bubble and Squeak, To make Buckingham Palace described Bull Fights at Lima Bunyan's Syllabub Pot Byron, Lord, Anecdotes of Calenture, or Maladie de Pays Callender, N.B. Canadian Indians Capuchin Interment Carmarthen, Description of Cat and Fiddle, Origin of Cedar of Lebanon Charing Cross, Old Chart of Swan River Colony