CONTENTS. 



K\l. Notices refpecling New B *]% 



XVII. Proceedings oj Learned Societies - 80 



Will. Intelligence and Mfeellaneous Articles - 91 



XIX. Premiums offered by the Society, inftituted at London, 

 for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com- 

 merce, for the Year 1802 . - - 97. 



XX. An Attempt towards a Theory of' the Refifauce expert- 



VO and four-wheeled' Carriages on different 

 Kinds of Roads ; and to determine the L tri it mjlances under 

 luhich the one are preferable to the other. By Nicholas 

 Fuss, Prof effor of the Higher Mathematics at Petcijburglp, 

 Member of the Imperial Academy oj Sciences, &c. 1 15 



XXI. On Painting. By Mr. E. Day^s, Painter 122- 

 XXII: On Bafaltes - - - 129 



XXIII. Experiments and Obfrvations on certain Stony and 

 Metalline Sub/lances which at different Times arc laid to 

 have fallen on the Earth ; alfo on various Kinds of Native 

 Iron. .By Edward Howard, Ffq. F.R.S. 136 



XXIV. On the different Proportions of' Carbon which conjii- 

 tute Crude Iron and Steel. By David M'ushet, Ffq. 

 of the Calder Iron IVorks - - 143 



XXV. Refearches relative to the Moon's Influence on the 

 Atmofphere, and on the Variations of the Barometer. By 

 C. CoTTE, Member of different Learned Societies 149 



XXVI. Defcription of a new Gas-holder. By W. H. 

 Prpys jun. - 153 



XXVIT. Experiments on Charcoal. By Clement and 



Desormes - - - 155 



XXVIII. An Effay on Longevity. By Sir John Sin- 

 clair, Bart. - 164 



XXIX. Memoir on the Anatomy of Vegetables. Read before 

 the Phyfical Clafs of the Inftitute by C. Mi re el 173 



XXX. Some Account of the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus, or 

 Duck-billed Platypus - - - 1 79 



XXXI. Curious Particulars rf peeling Bees. By Mrs. 

 Cooper, ofWormley, in Hertfordshire - 181 



XXXII. Extract from the Report made to the French Board 

 of Longitude by C Lagrange, Laplace, Mechatn, 

 ^WDelambre, on the Lunar Tables fent to the Board 

 to compete for the Prize propofed on that Subjetl 1 83 



XXXII l. Proceedings of Learned Societies - 185 



XXXIV. Intelligence and Mijccl.laneous Articles^ 192 



XXXV. On Painting. By Mr. E. D ayes, Painter %n 

 XX \VI. Experiments and Obferva lions on certain Stony and 



Metalline Subjlances which at different limes are J aid to 

 have fall t:n 0;/ the Earth) alfo on various Kinds rf Native 

 Iron. By. Ep ward Howard, Ffq. F. R. S. 219 



XXXVII. Me- 



