" Uses of Insects in Tropical Climates. [From the same.]. On the Icy Crust formed on Glass Windows during a severe Frost. By Mr. J. Graham. of Berwick-upon-Tweed. [From the Philosophical On the lethargic Sleep incident to certain Animals. [From the La ... 312 On the Generation, and other obscure Facts in the Natural History of the common Eel. By Mr. J. Carr, of Manchester. [From the Phi- losophical Magazine for October, 1809.] Electrical Eels. [From Humbold's View of the Equatorial Regions.] 817 The Mermaid seen on the coast of Caithness. [Letter from Miss Mac- kay, daughter of the Rev. David Mackay, Minister of Reay, to Miss Eaters of Earth.From Humbold's Physical View of the Equatorial Situation and Climate of the City of Marocco. [From Mr. Jackson's USEFUL PROJECTS.. ib. Sketch of a Plan for improving the Royal Institution, and erecting it An Invention for writing by means of Copies engraved on Slates. [From Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manu- factures, and Commerce. Vol. XVII.] The Thanks of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. were voted to Mr. S. Roberts, Chairman of a Committee appointed at Shef- field for encouraging the Sweeping of Chimnies without the use of Climbing-boys. From the Transactions of the Society.]...... 827 The Silver Medal given by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. was this Session voted to the Rev. James Hall, of Chesunt-walk, Walthamstow, for preparing from Beanstalks a substitute for Hemp. A written Communication was received from him by the Society on the Subject, and Samples of the Fibres are preserved in the Society's Re pository. The following are Certificates of Mr. Hall's Statements Simple Means of correcting the Damp in Coal-mines. [From the On the Propriety of establishing Parochial Shops in Country Dis ANTIQUITIES. ib. Pacification of Lludd-Little Song. Translated from the Welsh of the the Bard Thaliessin, who flourished in the Sixth Century of the Christian Christian Era; with Notes in support of the Opinion, that this lit- Stonehenge. [From the same.] Ancient British Coins. [From the sume.]· 836 838 839 Origin of the Marvellous, or Poetical Machinery of Old England. ... 840 843 844 A Coin, perhaps the oldest in the World. [From L'Ambigu ou Varié- MISCELLANEOUS. ib. Observations on the Mohammedan Religion. [From Mr. Jackson's Ac- .... 851 853 Nature and Effects of a peculiar Species of Plague which depopulated 855 Of the Country of Magad'ha, the Kings of which were Lords Para- ...... 861 A Country-house-and a House in the Country. [From the Morning .... 865 Parallel between Linnæus and Buffon. [Extracted from the Notes of .... 867 868 POETRY. Ode for the New Year, 1809 Ode for his Majesty's Birth-day.-June 4 * A Summer Dawn The Effects of Judicious Culture A Description of the Cottager's Occupation in Winter... 3Q A Family of Cottagers reduced by the Monopolizers of Land to Migrate to a City 175 876 ib 878 ib. ib. 879 810 881 883 On being Confined to School one Pleasant Morning in Spring.......... ib. Song The Wandering Boy Description of a Summer's Eve From Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming, 884 885 886 887 ACCOUNT OF BOOKS FOR 1809. Voyage D'Alexander De Humboldt et Aimy Bompland ・、、、、、・ 890 901 ...... 915 A Second Journey in Spain. By Robert Semple.. State of the Foreign Affairs of Great Britain for the Year 1809. By Gould Francis Leckie, Esq. 936 |