INDEX. 



Montana, Colonel, on the immer, or 

 ember goose, and northern diver, 85 



Monge's theory of evolutes, 811 



IVlons, Van, on electricity, 62 



Mortality, table of, in various places, 

 318 



Motion in plants, 334 



Mouse, a new species of, 235 



Muriate of silver not blackened without 

 light, 156 



N. 



Neill, P. Esq. on the natural history of 



the divers, 8 1 

 New, Dr. J. on the identity of the base 



of charcoal with hidrogen or its base, 



71 



O. 



Oenothera Biennis, crystals contained in 



its root, 156 

 Olbers, Dr. on the new planets, 318 

 Orchards, management of, 75 

 Orthography, chemical, 359 

 Osteology, comparative, 313 



Pallas, observations of, 316 



Paper produced from mountain flax, 234 



Paring and burning lands, 187 



Parkinson's " Organic Remains," extract 



from on the dissimilarity between the 



creatures of the present and former 



world, and on the fossil alcyonia, 33 



Parmentier on the smut in wheat, 146 



Patrin, M. on the formation of basaltes, 



271 

 Pearson, Dr. on manures, and the mode 



of applying them, 285 

 Pelletier, M. his method of fusing ba- 



rytes, 281 

 Pen, capillary, recently invented, 236 

 Pennant's " British Zoology, 1 ' 106 

 Penny, Mr. 60 



Pepys, Mr. his eudiometer, 223 

 Permutations, problem in, 203 





Peron, M. his account of a voyage of 

 discovery from the year 1800 to 

 1804, 235 



Perspiration of plants, 351 



Peysonell, M. on sponges, 42 



Phosphorus, analytical experiments on* 

 328 



Piazzi, M. 309 



Pine timber of Upper Canada, 27 



Plants, food of, 5 — their carbon pro- 

 duced from water, 72 — Their growth, 

 161 — Supposed perspiration, 169,351 

 —Attempts to discover the cause of 

 their morion, 334 



Plants near Edinburgh, 158 



Plumbago, analytical experiments on, 

 330, 333 



Poisson, M. on the propagation of light 

 and reflection of sound, 312 



Polypody root, examination of, 145 



Pons, M. his observations of the comet 

 of 1807, 310 



Ponsonby, Miles, Esq. 59 



Pontin, M.on the amalgam of ammonia, 

 ' 243 



Pontoppidan's " History of Norway,'' 84 



Potash in mica, 158 — In schist, 304 



Potassium, action of, on ammonia, 242 



Potato, remarks on its uses, 28, 52 



Priestley, Dr. on the properties of vege- 

 table ashes as manure, 189 



Primrose tree, on the crystals contained 

 in its root, 156 



Proust, M. his discovery of a new in- 

 flammable mixture, 70 



Prunelle, Professor, on' the winter sleep 

 of certain animals, 313 



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Rabbits, breeding orf\ important on ac- 

 count of their fur, 23 



Rafn, Dr. on the stupor of certain 

 animals in winter, 313 



Rain, table of, for the year 1808, 197 



Rainbow, the lunar, observations on, 

 231 



Refraction, 



