I N D E X. 



397 



Farey on mensuration of timber, 

 213 

 Fascination. On, 379 



Fine Arts. On the, 20 



Fire-balls. One fell at I'Aigle, 

 16; on origin of, 1 7 ; one 

 fell near Apt, 18; one men- 

 tioned bytht-poetCowper,2o,6 

 fish, fossil On, 263 



Flaxmans letter to the Royal 

 Academy, 20 



Fly-car r'ur. An insect which 

 produces animal cotton, 1 20 

 Fossils. On some rare, ' ^ 263 

 Fourcroy, on a new metal found 

 in platina, u? 



French National Institute, 204 

 /V;7//j patent, ^ 393 



i'V^i live in ice, 4; exper. 

 on, 8 



Furnace for melting copal and 

 amber, 1 S 5 



Galvanic and electric fluids. A 

 distinguishing property be- 

 tween, 83 

 Galvanism, a prize queftion, 291 

 Geography, 10, 12, 14 

 Glass mirrors. To coat with 

 lead and antimony, 348 

 GoUbach, astron. labours of, 14 

 Greavrs's patent, 307 

 Grubbcns on preparing soy, 2 bo 



Hancock' *s patent, 307 



Harding's discovery of a new 

 planet, 392 



Hauy on basaltes, 58 



Hauy's theory of crystallography. 

 On, 159,222 



Hcaiy on cutting screws, 172 

 Heath on use of yeaft in typhus 



fever, o 



Henry on Dalton's theory, 193 

 History, a prize question, 208 

 Huddirfs patent, 307 



Hinnboldt the traveller. Ac- 

 counts from, 1 1 ; reported 

 death of, 95 ; safe arrival in 

 N. America and return to 

 Europe, 305 



Hume on the new metal found 



in platina, 29 



Hunter on privation of heat, 4 



Insects. Experiments with cold 

 on, 5 



Ir n\ To free cobalt and nickel 

 from, 5 1 ; Mushet on, 4 1, 



i37> 2 75» 339 

 Iron ores analysed, 86, 88 



Italian National Institute ', 291 



Japan. Russian embassy to, 327 



"Jeaurut the aitronomer, death 



of, 18 



Kautch the astronomer, death 

 of, 19 



Klaproth elected a member of 

 the French National Insti- 

 tute, 208 



Klaprotb\s analytical essays, 201 



Knight's analysis of a sulphate 

 of baryte?, 86 ; of micaceous 

 iron ore, 885 of lead ore, 89 



LahtuWs Hist, of Astron. for 



1803, 10 



Laxmans voyage to Japan, 2/29 



Leaden conduit pipes. To -save 



from injury in frosty weather, 



HI 



Lead ore analysed, 88, 89 



Learned Societies. Proceedings 



of, 85, 202, 283, 385 



Lectures, 305: 



Lensa, Curious experiments 



with, 182, 186 



Lime. Affinity of for carbon, 



clay, &c. 41, 137, 279, 339 

 Lozieres on animal cotton, 120 

 Lungs, a prize question, 387 

 Lussafs aerial voyage, 371 



Magnetic pole, \6 



Magnetism, exper. on, 371 



Manufactures. Premiums in, 109 

 Markhh Economical Society, 291 

 M it hematics, a prize question, 

 205 

 Med 1 vie. 



