CONTENTS 



OF THE 



NINTH VOLUME 



H ISTORY of Aslroiwmy for the Year 1800. By Jerome 

 De Lalande - - . - 3, 105 



A brief Jccount of the Manufacture of Gilt Buttons, com- 

 prising some Improvements important to Manufacturers 15 



A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Vine, and the Method 

 ofrnaking Wines, By C. Chaptal. 21, 122, 262, 326 



Description of an improved Family Oven, invented by Mr. 

 S. Holmes, of Castle-court, in the Strand, London 30 



Account of the Under- ground inclined Plane executed at 

 Wnlkden-Moor, in Lancashire, by His Grace the Duke of 

 Bridgewater. ' By the Rev. Francis H. Egerton 31 



Dr, Dickson's Translation fujiih NotesJ of Carnot on the 

 Infinitesimal Calculus - - 39 



On the Ucility of Birds in destroying Insects and other Pro- 

 ductions hurtful to Mankind - - 56 



On Decortication, as a Means for freeing Orchards from 

 Insects - - - - 63 



Account of C. F. Damberger's Travels through the 

 interior Parts of yJfrica,fro7n the Cape of Good Hope to 

 Morocco - - - 64, 1 37 



An Acanint rf ike Life and IFritings of Lavoisier. By 

 Jerome Lalande - - - 7S 



Life of Abraham Gothelf Kastner, Professor of Ma- 

 thematics at Got tin gen - - 97 



Translation of a Memoir on a new Species of Siren, By 

 M. De Beauvois - - - 1 1'S 



.On the Extraction of Opium from Garden Lettuce 134 



Notice respecting the Inscriptions brought from Egypt by the 

 Officers of the French Army. Read in the public Sitting 

 of the National Institute on the 3th of January, By 

 C. Ameilmon - - - 141 



Researches respecting the Latvs of Affinity, By C. Ber- 

 TiioLLET, Member of the National Institute, &c. 



146, 342 



On Mr. IVc-dgwood's Pyrometer - - 153 



An Attempt to prove that the Matter of Heat, like other Sub- 

 stances, possesses not only Volume but Gravity ; being a 

 Second Essay on Caloric. By Alexander Tilloch. 

 Read bej'ore the Aske^ian Society November 1800 158 



Account of the Manner in luhich the Tartars and Kalmuks 

 make their Kumis, or fennented Marcos Milk 167 



Vol, IX. a ' Singular 



