INDEX. 



5°5 



Dividing instrument. Cavendish's, 

 408; Lax on, 494 



Dollond's patent. Hist, of, 838 



Doors. To "prevent from dragging 

 on carpets, 448 



Earth. On theories of the, 170 



Earthquake in Perthshire, 91 



Earths. Experim. on, to ascertain if 

 v metals, 157 



Eds. Curious fact respecting, 410 

 Eggs carbonised, 5 



Electroscope, Deluc's, 497 



Elmes's portable bridge, 10 



Ether, apparatus for preparing, 302 

 Etna, eruption of, 501 



Eider on refrangibility of light, 337 

 Farey on geology, 257 ; remarks on, 

 385, 452; in "reply to Earl Stan- 

 hope on musical tones, 292 ; on the 

 Thames-archway, 372, 



Feathers, carbonised, 5 



Fence. The invisible, 270 



Fibres for micrometers. New, 383 

 Fishing of anchors. Ball's method, 348 

 Flint glass. Report on, 337 



Floating bodies. Burney on, 174 ; Orr 

 on, 249, 476 ; Barlow on, 300 



Fluoric acid decomposed, 88 



Fcetus, a singular one, 174 



French National Institute, 497 



Fruit. To preserve without sugar, 208 

 Fruit-trees. On training, 35 



Galvanism. On decomposition by, 

 86,87 

 Garden on distilling peppermint, 167 

 Garthshore on dispensaries, 221 



Gas-lights. On, 217,432 



Geometrical proportion. On, 425 



Geology, 102, 170, 194,312, 385,389, 

 442, 452 

 German on wine, and on vineyards, 

 '77, M2, 227 

 GianVs causeway. On the, 104, 194, 



257 

 Gin Ho on gold dust of Le Loire, 28 1 

 Glass, flint, report on, 337 ; pastes, 339 

 Gold dust in department of Le Loire, 



281 

 Goniometer. Wollaston's, 495 



Gongh's remarks on Berzelius's hy- 

 grometer, and Dalton's theory, 178 

 Graham on commerce, 68 ; on i^y 

 crusts, and on marine plants, 191 

 Grapes. On culture of, 32 



Growing timber. To ascertain value 

 of, 327, 350 



Hair, carbonised, 6 



Ilauy's Introduction to Mineralogy, 

 ' 389, 459 

 Hauy on Andrews Theory of the Earth, 



170 

 Heat, subterraneous. On, S20 



Henry on ammonia, 494 



Vol. 33. No. 134. June 1S09. 



Herdman's idea of a dietetic dispen- 

 sary, 221 

 Herschel on comet of 1807, 56; on 

 coloured concentric rings exhibited 

 by glasses in contact, 250 

 Home on a peculiar joint in the bask- 

 ing-shark, 174, 250 

 HoiveiCsheto fence, 270. 

 Hume's new method of detecting 

 arsenic, 401 

 Hydraulic investigations, 123,182 

 Hudrogen. Davy's opinion respect- 

 ing, 173 



gas from pit-coal. A ppara- 



tusfor,217; on, 4:j2, 439 



Hydrophobia. On, 24 



Hygrometer, Berzelius's, 39 ; remarks 

 en Berzelius's, 177; Cough's, 178 

 Lou, analysis of ores of, 12; affinity 

 of carbon for, 234,273 



Jury masts, Bolton's, 346 



Knight on training fruit-trees, 35 ; on, 

 radicles and buds, 174; on breed- 

 ing of animals, 496 

 Laplace's Mecanique Celeste, 264, 



494 

 Laskey's list of Scottish testacea, 252 

 Lax on dividiug instruments, 494 

 Learned Societies, 88, 173, 250, 332, 

 408, 493 

 Lectures, 93, 175,335,413 



Lehardy's telegraph, 843 



Levinrre on Andre's Theory of tlia 

 Earth, J70 



Lime. On burning, 433 



Lime fused with iron, 150 



Linen cluth. New method of paint- 

 ing, 151 

 Madder, Smyrna, introduced into cul- 

 ture, 412 

 Manchester Philosophical Society, 41 1 

 Manure. On, 438 

 Marine animals, large, b.lely taken, 

 90, 92, 174,251,253, 334,408,411 

 Man at on geometrical proportion, 



426 

 Masts, jury. Bolton's, 326 



Mc'caiiujue Celeste. Laplace's, 264, 494 

 Medicine, 305 



Meuorology, 05, 96, 176,255,336,416, 



503 

 Micrometer. Improved, 383 



Mineralogy. Hauy'a Introduction to. 

 389, 459 

 Mountains. On formation of, 385, 

 442, 452 

 Muriatic acid, compounds of, free 

 from water, 89 



Mushet on charcoal, 3, 116; experi- 

 ments on earths to ascertain if me- 

 tallic oxides, 157; on affinity of 

 oxide* of carbon for iron, 234, 

 273 

 K k Nitrogen. 



