INDEX. 



Abernbthy, Mr., SS7 



Aberration, of glass and of diamond 

 lenses, compared, 20 



Absorption from the surface, remedies 

 thus applied, 493 



Abydus near Thebes, excavations by 

 Mr. W.Banks at, 182 



Acid, on a new vegetable, 217 



Aeon, Mr., James, on the growth of 

 early and late grapes, 159 



Adamant, difficulty of making lenses 

 of, 16 



Adams, Mr. his account of the Aurora 

 Borealis seen in London, 898 



Africa, season of malaria and fevers, 41 



African travellers, hint respecting, 55 



Ag^ns Physiques, leur Influence sur la 

 Vie, par W. F. Edwards, D.M,, 137, 

 296 



Agnano, Lake, 45 



Air, night, why avoided, 43 



Air, on the determination of the mean 



, temperature of the, 223 



Alimentary substances, on, by Dr. 

 Prout, 480 



Alkaline springs of the West Riding 

 of Yorkshire; their presumed vir- 

 tues, 25 



Altheine, a new vegetable principle; 

 discovered by M. Bacon, 217 



Aluminum, preparation of, 474 



Americans, North, possess swift mer- 

 chant vessels, 32 



Aniici's microscopes, Professor, 198 



Ammonia, its presence in argillaceous 

 minerals, 489 



Amphitheatres, Roman, 366 



Anatomy of animals, the comparative, 

 by C. J. Carus, M.D., 377 



Ancient substances, chemical researches 

 relative to certain, 209 



Animal economy, conversations on the, 

 382 



• fossil, generally found at Ro- 

 man stations^ 368 



known to the Romans, 369 



Apatite, composition of, 490 



Apothecaries, Society of, incorporated, 

 888 



Apothecary, dissertation on the word, 

 337 



Apples, kept well in corn, 49B 



Arago's, Mr., experiment on the refrac- 

 tive power of bodies, 444 



Architecture, naval, its theory, 26 



Architecture, on the modern ornamenta 

 of, 292 



Armies destroyed by the influence of 

 malaria, 54 



Arnold, Mr. J. R., respecting the na- 

 turalisation of fish, 496 



Arsenic, its separation from nickel or 

 cobalt, 209 



snlphuret of, 476 



Astronomical and nautical collections, 

 \\%etzeq. 428 



Average duration of human life in va- 

 rious countries, 58 



Audition, experiments on, 67 



Augustus Ca?sar, Egyptian tablets re- 

 lating to his victory, 314 



Aurora Australis, described by Mr. 

 Forster, 408 



Aurora Borealis, seen in London, its 

 description, by Mr. Kendall, 385 



, general description of 



this phenomenon, 405 



seen in the day-time 



at Cannonmills, 489 



in Siberia, 489 



Aurora, Guido's; critical examination 

 of the composition, 11 



Bacon, Anthony, Esq., stoves employed 

 in his garden, 174 



Banks, Mr. William, his discovery of 

 the list of monarchs in hieroglyphics, 

 182 



Bark-beds, Mr. Bregazzi's thermome- 

 ter for, 425 



Barometrical observations reduced to 

 a standard temperature ; by S. Foggo, 

 458 



Barrowby, Dr., anecdote of, 345 



Basse, the, a voracious enemy of other 

 fish, 325 



Bellani, M., his reclamations of che- 

 mical discoveries, 469 — 470 



Berthicr, M , on porcelain, 478 



Berzelius, M., 471 



, his canons, 64 



Beurr^d'Aremberg Fear, described, 173 



Bichat's treatise on asphyxy, 141 



Biot, M., pendulum apparatus em- 

 ployed by him, 155 



Birds, subjected to experimental in- 

 quiry, 299 



Bismuth, property of, 202 



, its separation from mercury, 



by potassium, 476 



