CONTENTS, 



the Dissection of the Brain of a Person who died insane* 

 % John Taunton, Esq 17^ 



XXXVIII. Report upon a Memoir read at the French Insti- 

 tute, bi/ M. Thenard, upon the Nitrous Ether, By Messrs. 

 GuYTON, Vauquelin, and Berthollet . . 1 77 



XXXIX. Proceedings of Learned Societies . . . . 182 

 XL. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles .. .. 189 

 XLI. Experiments on the Influence of Time, as a chemical 



Agent, in depriving an elastic Fluid of its Elasticity/. 

 In a Letter f'lom M. BioT to M, Berthollet . . J93 



XLtl. Experiments for investigating the Cause of the cO' 

 Loured co7icentric Rings, discovered hy Sir Isaac Newton, 

 between two Objert- glasses laid upon one another. By 

 William Herschel, LLD. F.RS 295 



XLIIl. Essay upon Machines in General, By M. Car not. 

 Member of the French National Institute, &c. &c. 207 



XLI V. Processes employed for finishing the Inside of the 

 Palaces of the Native Princes in some Parts of the East 

 Indies 221 



XLV. Notice upon the Analyses of the Chr ornate of Iron^ 

 and upon the Fariety of the Epidote called Zoysite. By 

 M. Hauy ,, ..* .. 223 



XLV'L On drying Articles of Manufacture, and heating 

 Buildivgs, by Steam, By R. Buchannan^ Esq., Civii 

 Engineer^ Glasgow .. .• .. 225 



XLV J I. On the ceconomical Uses to which the Leaves and 

 Pruning s of Fines may be applied in this Country 22(5 



XLVllI. Observations on the Nature of the new celestial 

 Body discovered by Dr. Olbers ; and of the Comet which 

 was expected to appear last January in its Return from the 

 Sun. By William Hebschel, LL.D. F.R.S. 227 



XLIX. An Account of a remarkable Shower of Meteoric 

 Stones, at JFeston in America. By Mr: Silliman, 

 Professor of Cliemistry, and Mr. Kings ley. Professor 

 of Languages, in Yale College .. 232 



L. Me77toir Upon the Torpidity of Monkeys and other Ani- 

 mals. Translated from the Italian of M. Mangajli, 

 Professor of Natural History at Pa via . . . . 245 



JLI. The reformed Sexual System of Liiniams. By Robert 

 John Thornton, M.D., Lecturer on Botany at Guy's 

 Hospital 253 



LI I. Account of the Mamfactures carried on at Bangalore ^ 

 and the Processes employed by the Natives in Dyeing Silk 

 and Cotton 259 



LIU. On the Means of gaining Power in Mechanics 272 



LIV. On the Identity of Silex and Oxygen. By Mr. Hume, 



ofJU>ng'Acre. London 275 



^ LV. Pro- 



