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go Society of Friendly, Smrchers'Anto, Nature at Bei'lin«Ibe satin, spar ^ Messrs. Aikin\and Allen, wolfram, :from which they have obtained the,regulus of tungsten, equal specific gravity with D’EJhuyars f 3;Mr- R. Phillips the schiefer spar, and a variety of carbonates Of limej.During the meetings of the society a series of experiments on the substances which Klaproth.treated in the por*cetain furnace of Berlin, have been exposed, to the action' of oxygen gas on charcoal3 from which, when completed, very interesting results to the mineralogist and chemist will beobtained*.. — * •• -Our cabinets, .the great object of which-is to cpmplete the'provincial., mineralogy, have received- large additions from eorrespondenta-and members. . We should let no opportunity be lQst;in;completmg:this..useftd collection.I cannot conclude without mentioning4he valuable pre-^ sent of the mineralogical; map of .Cornwall,: so attentively drawn out, : and presented by Mr. Wm. Phillips to the society. : x •• . -./-u-.The committee are at present employed in rpaking a catalogue of the specimens we hve, .winch, -when printed, will be forwarded to each of the memhers^-^Duplicates of specimens; they have, and which are: not hi possession of the society, will assist much in completing our plan.*JSjOClETY OF TUE FR1EKVLY SEARCJSEgS INTO NATURE AT' Tbisr society has proposed the following prize question:• The*disputes;in iegafd to haskttes are*terminatedj but the nature of it seems not yet* to be. ascertained! arid therefore1 ^ * i* • ”* '' 0 '' ^ ^ ' ' - , *' *■a diversity of opinions still prevail respecting it. Since the period/when a prize question wa proposed on this subject lit Berne, -geognoriakhhs . made considerable .progress 3 but the geognpstic .relation of this kind of stone has remained partly a' problem, and partly a subject of - difference, amongpur best geologists. . ‘ ‘It is very remarkable that all the gedgnosts, both foreigners and 'others, formed in Germany^ and .particularly under the direction of Werner, never entertain any-doitbt of the Neptnnian origin of basaftekybdt,biiThe -other hand, the French and I taJian mineralogists, who have never been. J ■ i •/(. ? ^ \ + .. • \ t m « .'1.*- » ’ * ' * .~ * A description of the satirf spar by Mr. A. Aikint/anlt;i,Mr. Pecs’s analysis,.were published in the xiith volume of the Thiibs6phi{^I Maga-»*jnne, *pi 364.' Phifosophica! Magazine, vol. xiii. p. 407.' .:J - £ Phiiosophlcal M^ariheyyol.,xiyvp. J r‘ - beyond
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Philosophical Magazine
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Sun, Jan 01, 1804
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