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INDEX to VOL. XXXVI. 



A CETATE of potash. To prepare 

 colourless, 53 



Acid, muriatic, the base of, 71,. 152, 

 1)515; Oxynwriatic, a simple sub- 

 stance, 152, 352, S03, 404 ; corn^ 

 binationsof,404 ; Mucous, to pro- 

 cure pure, 191 ; prussic and prus- 

 sous, Porrett on, ' 196 



Alumine- Constituents of, 88 



Amalgams of the new metals, 86 ; 

 mercury and silver, 143 



Ammonia. Davy on, 17; singular 

 compound of, 71, 152, 354, 407; 

 constituents of, 89; perhaps a deu- 

 toxideof ammonium, 91 



Analysis of meteoric stone, 32; of a 

 supposed new earth, 77; of British 

 and foreign salt, 106 ; of Atropa 

 belladonna, 144; ofscammony, of 

 socotrine and hepatic aloes, 22 1, 225 

 Animal heat, new ideas on, 470 



Arbor Diana: Vitalison, 143 



Artillery, proper charges for, 333 

 Astronomic refraction. Improvements 

 in, 340, 446 



Atropa "belladonna analysed, 143 



Attraction, sol-lunar influence of, on 

 clouds, 58 



Bakerian lecture for 1 809, Davy's, 1 7 

 Balls, On penetration of, wuh dif- 

 ferent charges, 325 

 ' Barometer. Sir H. CEnglefield's, 241 ; 

 prognostics of, 275, 376 

 Barraud's mercurial pendulum, 83 

 Baryl.es. Constituents of, • 88 

 Berrard on muriate of tin, 205 

 Bernoidly on acetate of potash, .03 

 Bethlcm hospital. Subscription for 

 rebuilding, 234 

 Bogs in Ireland. Parliamentary re- 

 port on, 361,487 

 Braconnol's analysis of aloes, 224 

 Calculi, urinary. Remedy fo'r 8 

 Calomel. Cheap process for prepar- 

 ing, 281 ; to purify, 283 

 Camp telegraph, Knight's, 321 

 Carey s meteorological tables, 80, 160, 

 240, 320, 400,473 

 Chenevix on mineralogical systems 

 286, 878,413 

 City, ancient, discovered, 78 

 Coffee grown in France, 316 

 , Cold, Leslie's artificial, 76 

 Combustion, not caused exclusively 

 by oxygen, '557 



Comets. New theory on orbits of' 



253 

 Compensation Pendulums. On, 81 

 Congreve's roikcls, a prize question, 



232 

 Coromandel. Land winds of, 243 

 Ccw covered with horns, 70 



Crane on orbits of comets, 253 



Craniognosy. A work on, 74,77 

 Crystallography. Haiiy on, 64,121 

 Ci/raduu's process for obtaining so- 

 dium and potassium, 282 

 Cuthbertson on increasing the charge 

 of electric jars, 2.59 

 Cystic o.ride, a species of urinary cal- 

 culus, 7 



Dalian, on proportion of oxygen in 

 protoxides and neutral salts, 88 



I? Ariel's notes on Gold, 153 



Davy's Bakerian lecture for 1809 — 

 Fxper. on nitrogen, ammonia, and 

 the amalgam from ammonia, 17; 

 on the metals of the earths, 85 » 

 on muriatic and oxymuriatic acid, 

 70, 152, 352; his experiments re- 

 peated at Moscow, 73; conside- 

 rations of theory, 90; recantation 

 of French chemists respecting his 

 new metals, 153; new experiments 

 On oxymuriatic gas, 392, 404 



De thut on the poison of the Bohan 

 vp'.is and Anted, 70 



De Luc's geological travels, 3 ; elec- 

 trical column, 75, 317,472 



Did'uc on sugar of apples, 218 



Dyeing. Hints on, 433 



Earthquake at the Azores, 397 



Earth screw. Salmon's, 257 



Ecliptic. Obliquity of, 424 



Electricity, a prize question, 232 

 Electrical jars. Charging capacity of, 

 increased, 259 



Eugle/ield's (Sir K. C.) mountain ba- 

 rometer, 241 ; account of a thun- 

 der-storm, 349 

 Emu* on astronomic refraction, 340 

 44G 

 Extractive principle, a prize question, 



154 

 Fubbroni on purity of gold, 182 



Farcy's musical theorems, 39; re- 

 marks on Michel's list of British 

 strata, »ol -S+tf 



Farcy (//I) On bogs in Ireland, .443 



