I 



D E X. 



A. 



Abyssinia, 161 



Accum, Mr. Fred, his examination of the 

 fo called fait of bitumen, 251 



Acids, their effect on the teeth, 38 



Acofta, Jofeph, 163 



Adams, Mr. Geo. 217 



Air, dry and moift, refpecYive fpecific gra- 

 vities of, 242 



Albumen, 19 



Alcohol, inefficient to purify oil, 11.— 

 action of on the juice of plants, 19 



Alkali, its ufe in purifying oils, 12 



Alumine, a 60 



American Philofophical Society, 63, 64 



Andrew, Mr. his method of clearing the 

 lunar diftances, 43 



Andromeda mariana, 166 



Antimony, 288 



Anti-incendiary liquid, 103 



Antilles, 177 



Arcturus 76 



Arfenic, 287 



Atmofphere, how fupplied with oxigen, 

 184 



Azalea nudiflora, 170 



Azote, 25, 187 



E. 



Banks, Sir J. 32 



___ report of the ftate of his 



Majefty's flock of fine wooled Spanifh 

 (heep, 65 



Barton, Dr. his account of the poifonous 

 honey of North America, 159 

 Vol.. V. 



Baffe, his method of preparing muriatic 



ether with fimple acid, 221 

 Beaume, 178 

 Bay alewife, z * 

 Beccaria, 217 

 Bees, maftic of, 48 

 Berthollet, M. 281 

 Bird lime, 24 



Bitumen, fait of analyfed, 251 

 Black, Dr. 208 

 Blafhing fcrew, 32 

 Blood, ferum of ufed In a procefs of paint* 



ing, 139 

 Bones, on the nutriment of, 221 

 Boggy land, draining of, 28 

 Books, new, 63 

 Borage 27 

 Borer for draining boggy land, description 



of, 29 

 Boftock, Dr. 225, 227 

 Botany, 145 

 Boulton and Watt, their time-piece for 



regiftering the attendance of watchmen, 



158 

 Brogniart, 184 

 Brownriggi Dr, 23 J 

 Bruce, Mr. 161 

 Buckthorn r 27 



Cadet de Vaux, 22 1 



Calculus pulmonary, 206 



Candles, on the relative quant'itiei of li^hfi 



afforded by them, 219 

 Capella, 76 

 Cardan, 204 



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