INDEX. 



Hire, M. De la, on the vibration of the 

 pendulum, 136 



Hisinger, M. 20 



Home, E. Esq. letter to, on calculi 

 and solvent medicines, 35— His ob- 

 servations thereon, 51 — On some pe- 

 culiarities in the structure of the 

 wombat, 177 



Honore, M. De St. 105. 



Hook, Dr. 158 



Hospitals, apparatus for destroying con- 

 tagion in, 349 



Howison, Dr J. his account of the 

 Chinese method of propagating fruit- 

 trees, 322 



Hunter, W. Esq. on Nauclea Gambir, 

 the plant producing the drug called 

 Gutta Gambeer, with characters of 

 two other species, 366 



Husbandry, oxen used in, with the ad- 

 vantage, 330 



Hydraulics, 104 



1. 



Idiots of Switzerland, 294 



Imber goose, description of, 23% 259 



Instrument for gauging standing timber, 

 324 



Iris Pseudacorus, seeds of, a substitute 

 for coffee, 70 



Irish geology, 161, 245 



Iron, preparations of, their uses in cases 

 of cancer, and their general effect 

 upon the blood, 79 



Iron proposed to be substituted for ex- 

 pensive kinds of wood in furniture, 

 287 



J. 



James's powder, analysis of, 316 

 Jameson, Professor, 78— His account of 

 oryctognostic characters and geognos- 

 tic relations of the mineral cryolite, 

 237 

 Jupiter's satellites, their eclipses, 153 



K. 



JCemble, Mr. letter to, on an improved 

 plan for theatres, 243. 



Kemp, Mr. 239 



King, Mr. 158 



Knight, T. A. Esq. on the origin and 

 office of the albernum of trees, 27 — 

 On the variegation of plants, 370 



Koula, anatomical structure of, 177 



Kraken of Norway, 77 



Lacepede on the sea unicorn, 73 



Lagrange on the propagation of sound, 

 117, 124 



Laing, M. Esq. on a sea snake cast a- 

 shore in Orkney, 77 



Laskey, Mr. on several subjects m 

 natural history, 237 — On the'Scotish 

 testacea, Sib 



Laugier, M. 129 



Le Cain, see Caan. 



Lectures, medical and surgical, 159 



Lclivec, M. his account of an econo- 

 mical method of evaporating the 

 water of brine springs, employed at 

 the- salt works of Moutiers, in the 

 department of Mont Blanc, 151 



X,ibes, M. his experiments on electrical 

 attractions and repulsions, 309 



Life-boats, general account of, 20 



Light of the sun, what it is, 206 



Lindsay, M. his account of the germi- 

 nation of ferns, 3G4 



Loat, Mr. J. his contrivance for filtrating 

 and preserving rain-water for domestic 

 purposes, 353 



Lothian, East, observations on its mi- 

 neralogy, 77 



Luc, M. De, on comets, 206 



Lugt, M. his experiments on electrical 



attractions and repulsions, 313 

 Lukin's patent life-boat, 20 



M. 



Mackenzie, Mr. his account of the coaU 



formation near Durham, 76 



Macknight, Dr. 79 



Malacarni, on cretinism, 295 



Marcet, Dr. 159 



MarsuMi, 



