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Fluates. 3d order: Fluo-siliciates. 4th order: Siliciates. 1st subdivision: single siliciates, including nepheline, collyrite, &c. 2d subdivision: double siliciates, comprehending beryl, emerald eucluse; mealy zealite, lomonite; Larmotome, or cross-stone; mesotype, schrol; felspar, lepidolite, leucite. 3d subdivision: triple and complex siliciates, containing prehnite, koupholite, mica.

This indefatigable professor has also given in the same work, a series of experiments proving that magnetic iron ore is a compound of black and red oxides of iron.

Professor Berzelius has likewise made Experiments to determine the definite Proportions in which the elements of organic Nature are combined. Among a variety of substances which he examined he included common sugar; and states the following composition as the result of his analysis, when the sugar had been dried in a vacuum;

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Which coincides very nearly with the last analysis given above.

The Rev. W. GREGOR has analysed some specimens of Green Uran Mica, found in the copper mine of Gunnis Lake, in the eastern extremity of the county of Cornwall. The purest pieces of this fossil were selected for experiment: and its specific gravity at the temperature of 52° of Fahrenheit, was 3.3. The results from this analysis were the following, viz.

Oxide of Uranium, with a trace of oxide of lead 74.4 Oxide of copper Water.

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