THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANICS AND THE USEFUL ARTS; NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; Ellustrated with Engravings. BY THE EDITOR OF "THE ARCANA OF SCIENCE." "Science exalts the mind, and raises it above minor matters." PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 1843. DAVID BOGUE, FLEET STREET. (LATE TILT AND BOGUE. MDCCCXLIV. CONTENTS. Improvements in the Steam-Engine, and the Progress of Steam Navigation and Locomotion; Steamers and Railways: Civil Engineering and Architecture; Ship- building, Bridges; Paving; Mining and Working Metals; Glass-working; Lighting, Heating, and Ven- tilating; Machinery and Manufactures; and New Terrestrial Magnetism; Waves and the Tides; the Atmosphere; New Phenomena of Light, Heat, and Researches of Faraday, Matteucci, De la Rive, New Phenomena, Experiments and Processes; and New ZOOLOGY: Structural Economy; Mammalia, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Zoophytes, and Insects; New Species 228-241 BOTANY: New Facts in Vegetable Physiology, Newly GEOLOGY and PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: The Progress of Geology; Theories and Phenomena; with details of the Fossil Organic Remains discovered during the Year; Earthquakes and Volcanoes: the ASTRONOMICAL and METEOROLOGICAL PHE- NOMENA: New Comets; Meteors; Remarkable Temperatures; OBITUARY of Persons eminent in Science or Art, 1813 242-254 255-278 279-285 THE FRONTISPIECE. This Portrait of DR. JUSTUS LIEBIG, the celebrated Professor of Chemistry in the University of Giessen, has been reduced from a large Print just received from Germany. THE VIGNETTE. Mr. Babbage's Calculating or Difference Engine, lately deposited in George the Third's Museum, King's College, London. Obituary OF PERSONS EMINENT IN SCIENCE OR ART. 1843. T. C. HOFLAND, landscape-painter. ABRAHAM RAIMBACH, engraver. LOUISA SEYFARTH, (Miss L. Sharpe,) artist. W. S. GILPIN, landscape-gardener. SYLV. F. LACROIX, the distinguished mathematician. D. S. HAHNEMANN, originator of the Homoeopathic System. DR. JACOBSEN, who filled, in the Academy of Sciences at Paris, the Chair vacated by the death of Sir Everard Home. ANTOINE MARIE PEYRE, architect. HENRY THOMPSON, R.A., artist. J. SAUTERLEITE, German artist-glass-painting, &c. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, formerly President of the Royal Society. FREDERICK WILH. FACIS, medallist. JAMES HAKEWILL, architect. IPPOLITO ROSSELINI, Egyptian antiquities. GEORGE MADDOX, architect and artist. REV. W. LEWIS RHAM, rural economy. J. C. LOUDON, rural economist; author of several works on Gardening, Agriculture, Natural History, &c. |