INDEX. 



Kirwan, Richard, on rain, 120 



Kirwan, 146 



Kirwan, Richard, Efq. on the ftate of 



vapour fubfifting in the atmofphere, 207, 



242 

 Kirkwall, Lord, 33 

 Knight, Mr. Richard, his apparatus for 



breaking up logs of wood, 31 

 Komarzewiki, M. his graphometer, 283 



Lambert, 244 



Lambe on fpring water, 213 



Lagrave, 60, 62 



Lamp, new Statical description of, 93 



■ an improved, 133 



Lafteyrie, Cit. 48 



Latham, Mr. 203 



Latrobe, B. H. on the Clupea Tyrannus 



and Onifcus Praeguftator, 1 

 Lauruftinus, 153 



Lead, calx of, applied to fetid oils, 20 

 — ■' 224 

 Light, on the relative quantities afforded 



by candles of different dimensions, 



Lloyd, Mr. 32 



Lime, its ufe in the purification of oil, 8 



Lime, oxalate of, 40 



Lime, phofphateof, 43 



Linnaeus, 162 



Linne, 2, 4 



Lock, ancient, 263 



Loufe, an infect in the mouth of a fiih, 2 



Lunar obfervations, Mr. Andrew's method 



of clearing, 43 

 Lunar volcanoes, 201 



M. 



Machinery, defcription of for determining 



the effects of friction on coin, 298 

 3A agnefia alba, its operation on fetid oils, 



9 



Magnefia, fulphate of, 225 



3 



Magnet compound horfe Shoe, 216 



Mercury, a tranfit of, 304 



Mercurial thermometer, 35 



Metallic precipitates found in chocolate* 

 179 



Meterology, its connection with telegra- 

 phic obfervations, 201 



Mexicans, 175 



Milly, Count de, 51 



Miller, 151 



Moift air, 214 



Moyfe, Dr, 251 



Mud, fhovver of, 101 



Mufchenbrook, 246 



Mufkets for quick firing, 116 



Myrtle, 149 



N. 



Nebulae, 90 



News, fcientific, 54, 220 



New books, 63 



Nickel, 289 



Night telegraph, 199 



Nitrogen gas, 52 



Nitrous oxide, abforption]of by water, 235 



Nooth, Dr. 230 



North America, poifonous honey of, 161 



Oil, fifh, purification of, 5 



Oil, train, 6 



Oils, volatile, inefficacy of to purify 



oils, 11 

 Oily hydrogen, Prouft on, 97 

 Onifcus praeguftator, 1 

 Onifcus phyfodes, 2 

 Opium, 26 



Oranges, farinaceous coating of, 26 

 Organization, new, of the French initi- 



tute, 55, 56, 57, 58 

 Oxalic acid, 42 

 Oxigen, confumption of, in the fyftem of 



nature, 185 



Oxigen 



