The Quarterly Journal (Volume 12)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1822. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ih Lancashire, after death. By John George Children, Esq. F.R.S. Thursday, Dec. 13.--A paper was read, On the Concentric adjustment of a triple Object Glass. By W. H. Wollaston, M.D. and V.P.R.S. On the same evening a communication was also read, entitled, On a new species of Rhinoceros, found in the interior of Africa; the skull of which bears a close resemblance to that found in a fossil state in Siberia, and other Countries: by Sir Everard Home, Bt., V.P.R.S. Thursday, Dec. 20.--A paper was read on the Electrical Phenomena exhibited in vacuo, by Sir H. Davy, Bart., P.R.S. The Society then adjourned over the Christmas Vacation, to meet again on Thursday, the 10th of January, 1822. Art. XIII. Account of the Progress of Foreign Science. The daily increasing intercourse between this country and foreign nations, has enabled us to extend and systematize this valuable department of a scientific journal. In future, the account of foreign science will be presented in the following order: I. Chemical Science. 1. Principles of combination. 2. Repulsive power or caloric. 3. Simple bodies. 4. Inorganic compounds; acids, bases, salts, #c. 5. Organic compounds, vegetable and animal. 6. Analysis and chemical apparatus. II. Applications of Chemistry, to Medicine and the Arts; Agriculture, Bleaching, Dyeing, Sfc. III. Physics; Optics, Electricity, Magnetism, Acoustics, fyc. IV. Mechanics. 1. Statics, Dynamics. 2. Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics. 3. Erostatics and Pneumatics. V. Natural History; Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology. VI. Economics; or miscellaneons applications of Science to the ordinary uses of life. The deficiencies in any of the above departments which may exist in one Number, we shall endeavour to supply in another. I. Chemical Science. 1. ...