TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: See Transcriber's Endnote for details of this transcription. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART. [Illustration: Royal Institution of Great Britain Emblem.] JULY TO DECEMBER, 1827. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON-STREET. MDCCCXXVII. CONTENTS. _July—Oct._ 1827. On the Beauties contained in the Ovals and in the elliptic Curves, both simple and combined, generated from the same Figure or Disk. By R. R. REINAGLE, Esq., R.A. 1 On the Art of forming Diamonds into Single Lenses for Microscopes. By Mr. A. PRITCHARD. 15 Analysis of a newly-discovered Spring, at Stanley, near Wakefield. By Mr. WILLIAM WEST. 21 Observations on the State of Naval Construction in this Country. 25 On Malaria. No. II. By Dr. MAC CULLOCH, M.D., F.R.S., &c. 39 Dr. TURNER’s _Elements of Chemistry_, reviewed 60 Experiments on Audition. Communicated by Mr. C. WHEATSTONE. 67 On the Petromyzon Marinus 72 Observations upon the Motion of the Leaves of the Sensitive Plant 76 Experiments on the Nature of LABARRAQUES’ Disinfecting Soda Liquid. By M. FARADAY, F.R.S., Cor. Mem. Roy. Acad. Sci. Paris, &c. 84 Hieroglyphical Fragments, with some Remarks on English Grammar. In a Letter to Baron William Von HUMBOLDT. By a Correspondent 92 Dr. MAC CULLOCH’s ‘_Malaria; an Essay on the Production and Propagation of this Poison_,’ reviewed 100 Account of a New Genus of Plants, called _Reevesia_. By J. LINDLEY, Esq., F.L.S., &c. &c. 109 ASTRONOMICAL AND NAUTICAL COLLECTIONS. i. FRESNEL on the Undulatory Theory of Light 113 ii. Rule for the Correction of a Lunar Observation. By Mr. W. WISEMAN, of Hull 135 ‘_De l’Influence des Agens Physiques sur la Vie_. Par W. F. EDWARDS, D.M.’ &c., reviewed 137 Account of Professor CARLINI’s Pendulum Experiments on Mont Cenis 153 Analysis of ‘_Transactions of the Horticultural Society_. Vol. vii. Part I.’ 159 _On the Recent Elucidations of Early Egyptian History_ 176 _Proceedings of the Horticultural Society_. 190 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I. MECHANICAL SCIENCE. 1 On the Combined Action of a Current of Air, and the Pressure of the Atmosphere 193 2 Considerations relative to Capillary Action 194 3 Novel Use of the Plough 197 4 Discovery of Rocks under the Surface of the Sea 198 5 Paper to resist Humidity _ib._ 6 Professor Amici’s Microscopes _ib._ II. CHEMICAL SCIENCE. 1 On the Specific Heat of Gases 200 2 On the Incandescence & Light of Lime 201 3 Evolution of Heat during the Compression of Water _ib._ 4 On Electrical Excitation _ib._ 5 Magnetic Repulsion 202 6 Diminished Solubility of Substances by Heat _ib._ 7 Composition of Cyanic Acid 203 8 Iodous Acid 204 9 Manganesic Acid _ib._ 10 Heavy Muriatic Ether, and Chloric Ether _ib._ 11 Test for the Presence of Nitric Acid 205 12 Peculiar Formation of Nitre _ib._