476 



INDEX. 



Resijis. Exper. on, 185 ; redden turn- 

 sole, 186 



Roxburgh on land winds of Coroman- 

 del, 243 



Royal Society, London, 70, 152, 392 

 469 



Royal Society, Edinburgh, 471 



Rupture. New mode of treating, 237 



Salmon's thief- catcher, 256; method 

 of building houses of earth, 263 

 Salt, (muriate of soda) Henry on, 

 106, 171 

 Sandarach, a pure resin, 185 



Screw to secure posts, &c ax the earth, 



257 

 Serpents fed by a child, 315 



Ships* guns. Charges for, 328 



Singular compound, 71, 152, 354, 407 

 Smeaton's papers, preparing for the 

 press, * 102 



Smyth's system of tuning. On, 1 65, 435 

 Soap-works. Cause of explosions in, 



304 

 Societies, learned, 70, 152, 392, 4(>9 

 S<;*ia, effects of, on healthy urine, IS; 

 exper. on, 393 



Sodium. Curadau's process for ob- 

 taining, 283; Davy's new process 

 for obtaining, 393 



Solar injlaence on clouds, 58 



Strata. The principal British, 102 

 Stroniites. Constituents of, 88 



Sugar from apples, 218 



Sulphur. Davy's exper. on, 352 



Surgical cases, 151, 230 



Surgery. Hints to improve, 401 

 Tape-K"»m, expelled by oil of tur- 

 pentine, J306, 335 

 Taunton's iurgical 



Taylor's new engine, to be worked 

 either by water or by steam, 394 

 TcUgrafsh, Knight's, 321 



Thermometer. On Mr. E. Walker's 

 scale, 16; Mr. R. Walker's metal- 

 lic for high temperatures, 119 

 Thief-taker, a mechanical, 256 

 Thunder-storm. Violent, 349 

 Toridci/T on decomposing water, 303 

 Travels in Siberia, 72 ; in Russia, 72 

 Tiomsduijf' on aloes, 221 

 ' Tunnel under the Thames proposed 

 to be made of iron, 34. 



FatciuatUm. Dublin report, 96 ; na- 

 tional establishment instructions, 

 308 



Fauquflin's analysis of Atropa bella- 

 donna, 143 



Fegetables. On supposed absorption 

 of oxygen gas by, 46 1 



Vesuvius. Eruption of 313 



Upas. Exper. on, 70 



Urinary calculi. Remedy for, 8 



Walker's, (R.) Thermometer for high 

 temperatures, 119; on prognostics 

 by the barometer, 275, 376, 467 

 Walker, (E.) on pendulums, 81 ; on 

 purifying olive oil, 372 



Warden's analysis of meteoric stone,32 

 Watches. Oil for pivots of, 372 



Water. Decomposition of by char- 

 coal 303 

 Weather. To foretell, 275, 376 

 Wernerian Society, 233 

 Werner's system. examined 286, 378 

 Winds, land, of Coromandel, 243 

 Winsfield's method of increasing the 



charge of electric jars, 

 Wollaslon on cystic oxide, 



259 

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