vantageous, to try by experiments, the confidence which it may be entitled to, that the use of the remedy can occasion no dangerous consequences.-I therefore consider it my duty, to make it known to my fellow citizens, by publishing the following, as it has been transmitted to me. "Thanks to the celebrated professor Brugnatelli an efficacious remedy, has at last been discovered, against canine madness, perhaps the most horrid of all diseases. That remedy consists in hydrochloric acid (muriatic ox: aqueux) used as well inside of the body, as on the exterior parts of it. The wound produced by the bite of mad animals, must be washed with it. It appears that that substance destroys the hydrophobic poison, even when used several days after a bite. A number of well authenticated cures, operated by that simple means, in the great hospitals of Lombardy, do not permit to doubt the powers of that precious remedy." New Orleans, January 15, 1818. AUG. MACARTY, Mayor. DIED, on the 22d of January, 1818, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, Caspar Wistar, M.D. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, President of the American Philosophical Society, President of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of Slavery, &c. &c. and one of the Censors of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. A discourse, entitled, a Tribute to the Memory of Doctor Wistar, was delivered, in the Hall of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at New-York, on the 26th day of January, 1818, by Doctor David Hosack. An Eulogium on Doctor Wistar, was delivered before the Members of the Philadelphia Medical Society, in this city, February 21, 1818, by Doctor Charles Caldwell. An Eulogium on Doctor Wistar, was also delivered, by William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the State of Pennsylvania, March 11, 1818, before the American Philosophical Society. VOL. VIII. 2 K No. 30. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, VOL. I. New Series, 1818. This important Volume contains, amongst other things, the following valuable papers: 1. On the Geology of the United States; by W. Maclure.2. Astronomical Observations; by Andrew Ellicot.—3. Longitude of the Capitol at Washington; by William Lambert.-4. Investigation of the Figure of the Earth; and of Gravity in different Latitudes; by Robert Adrain.-5. On Leaden Cartridges; by W. Jones.-6. Heights of Mountains in New York, New Hampshire and Vermont; by Captain Partridge.-7. On the Aborigines of America; by H. H. Brackenridge.-8. On Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium; by Jos. Cloud.-9. An attempt to ascertain the fusing temperature of Metals; by Jos. Cloud.— 10. Inquiry why Metals in a solid state, appear lighter than when in fusion; by Jos. Cloud.-11. Observations on the Formation of Kentucky; by M. Correa de Serra.-12. Solution of a Problem in Arithmetic; by James Austin.-13. Geological formation of the Natural Bridge in Virginia; by F. W. Gilmor.-14. Analysis of the Blue Iron Earth of New Jersey; by Thomas Cooper, M. D.-15. On Vanishing Fractions; by J. Mansfield.-16. Pyrometrical Experiments; by F. R. Haslar.-17. English Phonology; by P. S. Du Ponceau.-18. On Fossil Remains; by the Rev. H. Steinhauer.-19. Extirpation of a large Wen; by J. S. Dorsey, M. D.-20. Improvement on Leslie's dif ferential Thermometer; by E. De Butts, M. D.-21. A New Rolling Draw-Gate; by N. Sellers.-22. Indian Fort near Lexington, Kentucky; by C. W. Short, M. D.-23. An improved Piston for Steam Engines; by P. A. Browne.-24. On Bleaching; by Thomas Cooper, M. D.-25. Appendage to a reflecting Sector; by R. Patterson,-26. Instrument for setting up Sun Dials; by R. Patterson.-27. Observations on the Climate in the neighbourhood of the Delaware; by the Reverend Nicholas Collin.-28. On the mean Diameter of the Earth; by Robert Adrain.-29. Improvement on the Ship Pump; by Robert Patterson.-30. On the processes of the Ethmoid Bone; by C. Wistar, M. D.-31. On two heads found in the Big Bone Lick; by C. Wistar, M. D.-32. Case of Respiration by means of one side only of the Thorax; by C. Wistar, M. D.-33. On Chondropterygious Fishes; by C. A. Le Sueur.-34. Investigation of a theorem proposed by Dr. Rittenhouse; by Owen Nulty.-35. Monograph of American Insects of genus Cicindela; by Thomas Say.-36. Substitute for a Ship's Pump; by R. Patterson.-With other miscellaneous articles. The Second Part of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for 1817, has just been published, and contains the following papers: 13. Description of a thermometrical Barometer for measuring Altitudes. By the Rev. Francis John Hyde Wollaston, B.D. F.R.S.-14. Observations on the Analogy which subsists between the Calculus of Functions and other Branches of Analysis. By Charles Babbage, Esq. M.A.F.R.S.-15. Of the Construction of Logarithmic Tables. By Thomas Knight, Esq. Communicated by Taylor Combe, Esq. Sec. R.S.-16. Two general Propositions in the Method of Differences. By Thomas Knight, Esq. Communicated by Taylor Combe, Esq. Sec. R.S.-17. Note respecting the Demonstration of the binomial Theorem inserted in the last Volume of the Philosophical Transactions. By Thomas Knight, Esq. Communicated by Taylor Combe, Esq. Sec. R.S.-18. On the Passage of the Ovum from the Ovarium to the Uterus in Women. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P.R.S.-19. Some further Observations on the Use of Colchicum autumnale in Gout. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P.R.S.-20. Upon the Extent of the Expansion and Contraction of Timber, in different Directions, relative to the Position of the Medulla of the Tree. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G.C.B. P.R.S.-21. Observations on the Temperature of the Ocean and Atmosphere, and on the Density of Sea-water, made during a Voyage to Ceylon. In a Letter to Sir Humphrey Davy, LL.D.F.R.S. By John Davy, M.D.F.R.S.-22. Observations on the Genus Ocythoë of Ra finesque, with a Description of a new Species. By William Elford Leach, M.D.F.R.S.-23. The distinguishing Characters between the Ova of the Sepia, and those of the Vermes testaceæ, that live in Water, explained. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P.R.S.-24. Astronomical Observations and Experiments, tending to investigate the local Arrangement of the celestial Bodies in Space, and to determine the Extent and Condition of the Milky Way. By Sir William Herschell, Knt. Guelp. LL.D. F.R.S.-25. Some Account of the Nests of the Java Swallow, and of the Glands that secrete the Mucus of which they are composed. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P. R.S.-26. Observations on the Hirudo complanata, and Hirudo stagnalis, now formed into a distinct Genus under the Name Glossopora. By Dr. Johnson, of Bristol. Communicated by Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P.R.S.-27. Observations on the Gastric Glands of the Human Stomach, and the Contraction which takes place in that Viscus. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P. R. S.-28. On the Parallax of the fixed Stars. By John Pond, Esq. Astronomer Royal. Dr. Crichton has just published, An Account of some Experiments, made with the Vapour of Boiling Tar, in the Cure of Pulmonary Consumption. Mr. Abernethy has just published, his Third Course of Lectures, at the London College of Surgeons, on Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life, and on his Museum. It appears, that many of the most important discoveries, assumed by recent physiologists, have been plagiarized from that celebrated surgeon. |