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American Journal of Science, August.—History of the changes in the Mount Loa craters (continued), by James D. Dana. In this paper the history of Kilauea is continued from January 1840 to the end of 1886, during which period sufficient facts were accumulated for a widened and apparently final explanation of the method of filling the pit. The eruptions of 1849, 1855, 1868, and 1886 are fully described, and the whole subject is illustrated with maps of the burning mountain at various dates during the period under consideration.—On some phenomena of binocular vision (continued), by Joseph Le Conte. In this paper, the twelfth of the series, the author deals with certain peculiarities of the phantom images formed by binocular combination of regular figures. The phenomena here described, none of which have hitherto been satisfactorily accounted for, are all explained by the law of corresponding points, justly regarded as the most fundamental law of binocular vision.—Chemical integration, by T. Sterry Hunt. In this paper the author deals more fully with several points connected with chemical metamorphosis, which were more briefly noticed in his recently published work, entitled “A New Basis for Chemistry.”—Studies in the mica group, by F. W. Clarke. In this paper the author deals with specimens of muscovite from Alexander County, North Carolina; of lepidomelane from Baltimore and Litchfield, Maine; of iron biotite from Auburn, Maine; and of iron mica from near Pike's Peak.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 36, 551 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036551a0
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