INDEX. 



Marsilli, Count, on the colouring matter ' 



of red coral, 219 

 Medals, queries respecting the accidents 



which occur in the striking of, 383 

 Memoria technica for double elective 



attractions, 304 

 Menowvilleon theDahlin, 225 

 Menteith, C. S. Esq. 79 

 Mermaid of the Northern Ocean, 77 

 Metallization of the alkalies and earths, 



60 

 Meteorological Journal for December, 

 80-—January, 160— February, 240— 

 March, 319 



, For the years 1807 and 1808, 



k^ptat Middleshaw, near Kendal, 305 

 Mineral waters, 139 

 Mineralogy of Chalanches, 124— of East 



Lothian, 77 

 M'nbel, on the geneiation of the bark 



of trees, 29 

 Mojon, Dr. on the use of acid fumiga- 

 tions for destroying noxious effluvia, 

 345 

 Mongez, M. on the mineralogy of the 



mountain of Chalanches, 125 

 Montagu, G. Esq. his account of a non- 

 descript fish, 319 

 Multiplication table on a new plan, 262 

 Mussite, a variety of the diopside, de- 

 scribed, 19 



N. 



Narwhal, or sea unicorn, 78 

 Natural history, 76, 237, 318 

 NaucleaGambir, seeGambir 

 Nectarines and peaches produced na- 

 turally on the same branch, 284 

 Neiil's Tour in the Shetland Islands, 



82 

 Neill, Mr. P. his description of a rare 



species of whale, 77, 237 

 Newtonian theory of colours, 210 

 Nondescript fish, 319 

 Number, polygonal, 33 

 Numeration table, on a new plan, 263 



O. 

 Ogilby, Dr. his mineralogy of East 

 Lothian, 77, 78 



Ornithology, questions in, 23C—- : \n9 



swered, 259 

 Otter, remarkable instance of intrepidity 



in the, 237 

 Oxen used in husbandry, advantages of, 



330 



P. 



Parkinson, Mr. . on the existence of 



animal matter in fossils, 156, 218 

 Paterson, Lieut -Col. 177 

 Peaches, see Nectarines 

 Pearson, Dr. on calculi, 39, 50 — His 



analysis of James's powder, 316 

 Pelletier's electrical experiments, 61 

 Pepys, W. H. Esq. on the changes pro- 

 duced on atmospheric air and oxigen 

 gas, by respiration, 180 

 Phials for preventing and removing con- 

 tagion, 347 

 Philochemicus on the purification of 



camphor, 176 

 Picart, M. on the vibration of the pen- 

 dulum, 136 

 Piggot, Mr. 3 

 Plants, variegation of, 370 

 Playfair's hypothesis of the inequalities 



of the surface, of the earth, 249 

 Platina springs for watches, 148 

 Polygonal numbers, 33 

 Pontin, Dr on the deoxidation and 

 amalgamation of the compound basis 

 of ammonia, 54 

 Portmoon described, 161, 245 

 Prochaska, professor, his dissection of 



the skull of a Cretin, 299 

 Propagation of fruit trees, the Chinese 



method, 322 

 Pully, M. his analysis of the English 

 medicine called James's powder, 316 

 R. 

 Rail-roads, improvement in, 339 

 Reeve, Dr. his account of cretinism, 

 a species of mental imbecility endemic 

 in some parts of Switzerland, 294 

 Reports of the Preyentive Medical In- 

 stitution at Bristol, 153 

 Respiration, changes produced by it on 

 atmospheric air, and oxigen gas, 180 

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