[Rarebooks] fa: ROYAL INSTITUTION JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & ARTS 1818 - Faraday, Orchids, Geology, Chemistry, Medicine, &c.

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The Journal of Science and the Arts. Edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Vol. IV. London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. Tall 8vo (22 cm) bound in period tree calf, spine tooled in gilt; 416 pp. With nine plates (five folding, one colored) and one folding table. With significant articles on...

ANATOMY & MEDICINE:
An Inquiry into the Influence of Corporeal Impressions in producing Change of Function to the living Body. By J. R. Park (in 2 parts).
On the Use of Prussic (Hydrocyanic) Acid in the Treatment of certain Diseases of the Chest, and particularly in Phthysis Pulmonalis. By Dr. Magendie.

BOTANY:
Of the three Species of the natural Order Orchideae [Orchids] (with a PARTIALLY-COLORED FOLDING PLATE).
On the Geographical Distribution of Ferns. By Alexander Baron von Humboldt.
Of the Dissemination of Plants [and] Of the Death of Plants. By C.F. Brisseau Mirbet.
On the Effect of Elevation… upon the Geography of Plants in France. By De Condolle.

CHEMISTRY:
Michael Faraday: On the Solution of Silver in Ammonia [and] On the Sulphuret of Phosphorus.
On the Theory of Spherical Atoms, and on the relation which it bears to the Specific Gravity of certain Minerals. By J. F. Daniell (with a folding table and 2 FOLDING PLATES).
Report of Mr. Brande's Lectures on Mineralogical Chemistry, delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution (in 2 parts).
On the Difference between the optical Properties of Arragonite, and calcareous Spar. By David Brewster.
Experiments on sulphuric Acid, to determine the Law of Progression, followed in its Densities at different Degrees of Dilution; with several new Tables. By Andrew Ure.
Table exhibiting the average Quantity of Spirit in different Kinds of Wine. By W. T. Brande.
Experiments to determine the Constitution of liquid Nitric Acid, and the Law of Progression… By Andrew Ure.

GEOLOGY:
On the Strata of a remarkable Chalk Formation in the Vicinity of Brighton and Rottingdean. By J. F. Daniell (with 2 FOLDING PLATES).
On the Greenland or Polar Ice. By William Scoresby.
A Comparative Analysis of the Green and Blue Carbonates of Copper. By Richard Phillips.

TECHNOLOGY & INVENTIONS:
Suggestion of a new Principle for the Register Thermometer. By Marshall Hall (in-text illus.).
A short Account of Horizontal Water Wheels. By W. Adamson (with a PLATE).
On the Construction of Prisons. By J. C. Loudon (with references to Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon; 2 PLATES).
Report on Mr. Millington's Lectures, containing an Account of the late Improvements in the Manufacture of Hemp and Flax, and of the Machinery used therein (several in-text illus.).
An Essay on the Variations of the Compass, shewing how far it is influenced by a change in the Direction of the Ship's Head, &c. By William Bain.
Description of an improved apparatus for the Manufacture of Soda Water. By William Hasledine Pepys (with a PLATE).

Some rubbing and creasing to the spine, two scuff marks at the bottom of the front board; scattered foxing to the plates, mostly light but more pronounced on one of the prison plates; a few occasional small spots to the leaves, but generally very clean and bright, firmly bound.