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Philosophical Magazine Series 1 ISSN: 1941-5796 (Print) 1941-580X (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tphm12 LXIV. Notices respecting new books To cite this article: (1813) LXIV. Notices respecting new books , Philosophical Magazine Series 1, 42:187, 392-393, DOI: 10.1080/14786441308638352 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786441308638352 Published online: 27 Jul 2009. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 2 View related articles Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=tphm12 Download by: [Universite Laval] Date: 25 June 2016, At: 23:09 39~ Notices respecting New Book~, Umbell]ferae, &e. in which the saliant angles of the stalk are formed bv these fibres. T am convinced ti'om a variety of reasons, that these fi- bres are.the vessels of the plants which conduct the sap, The fi~llowing are ~ome o[ their arguments. 1. When we cut a branch of a tree in a rainy season, the sap issues fi-om the places where there are many fibres : i.e. from the interior bark, and from the external wo~d. It neither issues from the external bark ~here the cellular texture is in abundance, nor from the interior wood where the tracheee are in abundance. It is therdrbre probable that these are the fibres, Which fiwnish the sap. ~. When we ent'a plant in order to examine the cut place inslantly, we see the orifices of the tracheae very di- stinctly, but ~e see them dr),: the sap issues, on the con- trary, from lhe fascieuli which surround and accompany ;the trache~e~ and which are composed of fibres. [To be continued.] LXIV. N'otices respecting Arew Books. THE Second Part of tile Philosophical Transactions for 1813 has appeared ; the following are its contents - 19. An Accotmt of some organic Remains fimnd near Brentford, Middlesex. By the late Mr. William Kirby Trimmer. Comnmnlcate~.l in a Letter from Mr. James R; Trimmer to the t'~t. Hon.Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B.P.R.S. ~0. On a new Conslruction of a Condenser and Air- iP_/nmp. Bv ~lae Roy. Gilbert Austin. In a Letter to Sir umphry "Davy, LL.D.F.R.S.~21. OvL the Formation of Fat in the Intestines of hying Animals. By Sir Everard .H~nle, Bart. Presented by the Society fi~r promoting the Knowledee of Animal Cbemistrv.~'2~. On the colouring Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 23:09 25 June 2016 Matter of the black l~mnchial Glands, and of the black 5,pots tff the Lungs. By George Pearson, M.D.F.R.S~-°3; J~2xperiments on the'Alcc~hol of Sulphur, or Sulphuret of Carbon. By J. Berzetius, M.D.F.R.S. Professor of Che- mistry at Smckhc~lm ; and Alexander Mareet, M.D.F.~.S. one of the Physicians to Guy's ltoN~ital.--~4. On the Means of procuring a steady Light'in Coal Mines without the Dan- ger of Exph~sion. By William Reid Clannv, M.D. of Sunderland. Communicated by William Alten,'Esq. F.R.S. ~eS. O~l the Light of the Cassegrainian Telescope, com- pared with that of the Gregorian. By Captain Henry Kater~ Brigade- Royal Society. 393 Brigade-Major. Communicated by the tli~ht Hon. Sir Jos'eph Ba~ks, Bart. K.B.P.R.S.--e6. Addiiional Obser- vationg on the Effects of Magnesia in preventing an in- creased Formation of Uric Acid; with I~ernarks on the Influence of acids upon the Composition of the Urine. Bg William Tt~,omas Brande, Esq. F.R.S. Prof. Chem. R. I. Communicated by the Soci(ty for improving Animal Che- rnist:rv.--~7. Additions to an Account of the Anatomy of the.$qualus Maximus, contained ~n a former Paper; with Observations on the Structure of the Branchial Artery. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. F.R.S.--eS. Some further Obser- vati0ns on a new detonating Substance. In a Letter from SWHumphry Davy, LL.D. F R.S.V.P.R.I. to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph BankS, Bart. K.B.P.R.S.~e9. Experi- merits on the Production of Cold by the Evaporation of the Sulphuret of Carbon. By AlexanderMareet, M.D.F.R.S. one of the Physicians to Guy's Hospital.~30. On a saline Substance from Mount Vesuvius. By James Smithson, Esq. F.R.S.~31. Some Experiments and Observations ott the Substances prodt~ced in different chemical Processes oa Fluor Spar. By Sir Humphry Davy, LL.D.F.R.S.V.P. R.I.--3"2. Catalogue of North Polar Distances of Eighty- four principal fixed Stars~ deduced from Observations made with the Mural Circle at the Royal Observatory. By ./ohll Pond, Esq. Astronomer Royal, F.R.S.~33. Observation~ ~f the Summer Solstice, 1813, with the Mural Circle at the Royal Observatory. By John Pond, Esq. Astronomer Royal~ F.R.S. LXV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. B.OY AL SOCIETY. Thursday, Nov. 4(TrHs Society. assembled after the Downloaded by [Universite Laval] at 23:09 25 June 2016 long vacation ; and tlie~Right Hol'l. President Sir Joseph Banks, having so far recovered from his late indisposition, was carried into the mectin~d-room and placed in his chair. Dr.Wotlaston read a paper ~lescribing an instrumet~.t which he has invented, fi~r exhibiting at one view an epitome of what he call's '" Chemical equivalents." The instrument is made of paper with a moveable graduated s!id% like that of the s!idmg rule; and the names with the elementary principles or component parts of all the acids arranged in lhe order of their rtqations to each other, and to their respective base% stating the relative quantity by weight and measure of their contents of o.~ygen~ hydrogen~ azot% base and water, in- cluding .