INDEX. 



399 



Ricard, the astronomical poet. 



Death of, 19 



Rohrtsons aerial voyage from 



Petersburg!), 290 



Royal Institution, 283 



Royal Society, 2 00,202 



Muisian voyage of discovery, 



321 ; embassy to Japan, 327 



Sacbarcffs aerial voyage, 290 

 Sad-dot bt patent for, 393 



Saint-Fond on fossils, 263 



Sandman's analysis of minerals 

 from Barbadoes, S8 



Saxony, On the basaltes of, 58, 

 122 

 Scarib's patent, 303 



Scbeiner's object glass, 184 



Screws, to cut with a turning 

 lathe, 172 



Septala's mirror and lenses, 184 

 Snffert. Astron. labours of, 14 

 S'gnah made by gunpowder, 

 seen at the distance of thirty- 

 three leagues,, 13 

 Si/ex. On affinity of, for iron, 

 &c. 41, 137 

 Silver ore analysed, 86 

 Smith, (Dr.) refuted, respecting 

 Friar Bacon, 6tf 

 Snakes. On fascination 0^379 

 Societies. Learned, 85, 202, 



283 



Soy. To prepare, 260 



Spanish Sheep. The King's 

 flock of fine-woolled, 190, 

 296 

 Spiders. Exper. on, 5 



Sprains. To cure, 295 



Statistics, I97, 291 



Steam. Table of the relative 

 pressures, temperatures and 

 expansibility of, 134 



Steam engine. Woolf's im- 

 provement of, 133 

 Suberic acid produced from pa- 

 per, 2 i- 1 

 Sulphatf of barytes analysed, 86 

 Sun. On velocity of luminous, 

 calorific and deoxidizing rays 

 emitted by, 309 



Telescope. On the antiquity of 

 the, 66 ; a lens made to an- 

 swer the purpose of, 183 

 Thermometer. Lalande's, 1 5 

 Thomson, (Dr.), opposed by 

 Dalton, 79 

 Thornton. A. Aikin's letter to, 

 39 3 Reviewer's letter con- 

 cerning, 39 ; on pneumatic 

 medicine, 54, 347. Letters 

 from, to A. Aikin, 141, 248, 

 360 ; answer by, to the Re- 

 viewer, 144 

 Tides. On the, 1 $ 

 Tin. To separate, from copper, 



26 



Tingry's furnace for melting 



copal and amber, 15$ 



Timber. Mensuration of, 213 



Toplis- on fascination 379 



Torpidity, Exper. on, 5, 8 ; a 



prize question, 206 



Trade. The Japanese, 333 



Travels. Humboldt's, II ; £a- 



dia's, in Africa, 12 



Tsch'rnbau sen's object glass, 1S3 



Tungsten. Resemblance of, to 



supposed new metal, 30 



Turin Academy of Sciences, 29 I 



Taming lathe, to cut screws 



with, 172 



Typhus fever cured by the use 



of yeast, 



sO 



Vaccination. Progress of in 

 Asia, 92, 391 ; in Russia, 

 2 J 1 ; notice respecting, 94 



Varnish, copaU To prepare, 

 158 



Vauquelin on the yolk, and on 

 washing of wool, 3,5 



— — on a new metal found 

 in platina, 1 17 



Vegetit'on. State of, on high 

 mountains, 268 



Vitally tf animals. Action of 

 caloric on, 3 



Von Zacb, astron. labours of* 



Voyage round the world. Rus- 

 sian, 



