INDEX. 



nuceti, adipocire, and the cryftalline 

 matter of biliary calculi, 129 



Brain, the material organ of the internal 

 faculties, 198.— Confifts of indepen- 

 dent organs, ib. — Developement of the 

 organs, 199. — Its volume not propor- 

 tionate to the energy of its faculties, ib. 



Brugnatelli, 23 



Button, 113, 257 



Butter, eafy method of churning, 241 



Cadet, 130. — His memoir on the wax-tree 

 of Louifiana and Pennfylvania, 187. — 

 On the immerfion of feeds in times of 

 drought, 281 



Calculi, comparifon of the cryftalline mat- 

 ter of biliary, with myrtle -wax, 136 



Camelford, Rt. Hon. Lord, 250 



Camphor, foluble in acetic acid, 215 



Canals, method of railing and lowering 

 veflels on, 236 



Candles, the light of, obfervations on, 40. 

 —Curious effects of the refraction of, 

 100. — Subdivifion of, 186.— Made of 

 •vegetable wax, 192 



Carbonieres, 260 



Caflada worm, its natural hiftory, 266.— 

 Obfervations on the cotton produced by 

 it, 270 



Caflini, in 



Cement, water, or plafter, 60 



Ceres, the, Dr. HerfchePs obfervations on, 

 120. — Not a planet, 143. — Nor a co- 

 met, 145 



Cerifera myrica, 188. — Culture of in Eu- 

 rope, 194.— Economical remarks on, 

 196 



Charcoal contains oxigen, 68 



Cheese, identity of it with vegetable glu- 

 ten, 276.— Peculiar fermentation of, 

 ib.— Salts generated in, 277 



Chencvix, Mr. his analyfis of corundum 

 and its accompanying fubftances, 7, 

 210 



Children, organ of the mutual love of pa- 

 rents and, 224 



Chinefc, they fteep their feed previous te 

 fowing it, 282 



Churning, eafy method of, 241 



Cinder, finery, contains only water, and 

 not oxigen, 66 



Circumfpcction, organ of, 227 



Clement, 34 



Colours, the primary, of the prifmatic 

 fpectrum are only four, 98.— Some 

 new cafes of the production of, 180.— 

 Difperfion of by refraction, 185.— Or- 

 gan of the fenfe of, 230 



Comets, criterions of, 143. — Size of the 

 tails of, 144.— May become afteroids, 

 146 



Comparifon, organ of the fpirit of, 233 



Condamine, 261 



Convention, alphabets of, 246 



Converfation, apparatus for holding, at a 

 diftance, 69 



Corundum, analyfis of, by Mr. Chenevix, 

 7. — Kinds not examined by Klaproth, 

 ib. — Extreme hardnefs a principal cha- 

 racter, 8. — Fufes readily with borax, 

 9. — Component parts of the varieties of, 

 It. — Matrix of, 12. — A variety ana- 

 lyfed by Mr. Gregor, 209 



Cotte, 162 



Cotton, animal, memoir on, 266.— 'Su- 

 perior to vegetable, 271 



Courage, organ of, 225 



Crane, engine to be ufed inftead of, 44 



Craniognomic fyftem of Dr. Gall, 197, 

 224 



Crawford, Dr. 222 



Cruicklhank, Mr. Dr. Prieftley's anfw&r 

 to, on phlogifton, 65 



Cryptogamia, facts refpecting, 255 



Cryftal, Iceland, on the oblique refraction 

 of, 148 



Cunning, organ of, 226 



Dalton, Mr. 32. — His experiments and 

 obfervations on fluids as conductors of 

 heat, 56, 76. — To deteimine whether 

 the quantity of rain and dew is equal to 



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