INDEX. 



505 



Labarraque.M.jhis chloride of oxide of 



sodium, 81 

 Lamprey, sea, described, 72 

 Laudanum, denarcotized, 21.^ 

 Lens, diamond, art of forming it, 15 

 Lenses, sapphire, Mr. Prilchard's, 459 

 Leopards, the breed of dogs crossed 



•with, 865 

 Liebeg, M. Just, 210 

 Light, undulatory theory of, by M. 



Fresnel, 113, 4S1 

 duration of its effects upon the 



eye, 457 



its effects on vejjetation,490 



on the apparent decomposition 



of white, 458 

 on the measurement of the inten- 



sity of, 457 



Lightning, destruction of an oak by, 

 487 



Lignin or woody fibre, 481 



Lime and litharge, their mutual action, 

 475 



Lime, on the incandescence and light 

 of, 20 1 



Lindley, Mr. J., his account of a new 

 genus of plants, 109 



Lines, theory respecting beauty in, 2 



Linnaius, the sexual system of, 269 



Liquefaction of gaseous substances, ex- 

 periments of Sir II. Davy, 62 



Lister, Mr. J., 248 



Lilhotrity, reward adjudged to M. Ci- 

 viale for his discovery of, 230 



Litmus as a test, fallacy of the infusion 

 of, 214 



Llovd's list, calculation of shipwreck 

 from, 26 



Lucretius, reference to, 62 



Luminous appearances in the atmos- 

 phere, 222 



Lunar observation, rule for the correc- 

 tion of a, by Mr. W. Wiseman, 1S5 



Lunar phenomena, calculations of, by 

 T. Henderson, Esq., 450 



Mac Culloch, Dr. J., review of his Es- 

 say on Malaria, 100 



Madder, purification of, 219 



Magnetic repulsion, results of M. Bee- 

 querel's experiments, 202 



effects of metals in motion, on 



the, 456 



Malaria, an Essay on the production 

 and propagation of, by Dj. Mac Cul- 

 loch ; reviewed, ."^O, 100 



accompanying fogs, 48 



Mammiferae, observations on, 305 



Mammoth, the, considered to be fabu- 

 lous, 371 



Man, remarkable hairy, in Ava, 493 

 Mandouei, King, inscription at Karnac 



bearing this name, 188 

 Manetho, his history of Egypt written 



in Greek, 179 

 Manganesic acid, on, by M. Unverdor- 



ben, 204 

 Manganese, new chloride of, discovered 



by M. J. Dumas, 475 

 Mango-Capac, suppositions respecting 



him, 359, 300 

 Mangosteen, living plants introduced 



from the East Indies, by Captain 



Drunmiond, 191 

 Mantua, Napoleon's precautions against 



sickness before, 54 

 Mapp, Mrs., celebrated bone- setter, 34 1 

 Maremma of Tuscany, 58 

 Mastodon, the bones of the, 356 

 Mathews, Mr. Andrew, 167 

 Maurandya Barclaiana, a new Mexican 



flower,' 425 

 Mayerne, Sir Theodore, M.D., 3l0 

 Mayo, Dr. Herbert, on the sensitive 



p'lant, 76 

 Meadows, drains in, cause malaria and 



fever, 104 

 Meconic acid, Dr. Hare's method of ob«> 



taining 217. 

 Medical garden, Mrs. Gape's, '^38 

 Melons, grown on open borders, 172 

 Mellitic acid, preparation of pure, 483 

 Memnon, or Amenophis, statue of, 181 

 Mems., Maxims, and Memoirs, by W, 



Wadd, Esq., 329 

 Menes, monarch of Egypt, 180. 

 Mental powers atfecled by residence in 



a pestilential climate, 58 

 Merchantmen, bad construction of Bri- 

 tish, 26 

 Merrilt's statistical notices of the popu- 

 lation of the British empire, 288 

 Melals, three supposed new, discovered 



by Professor Fsaun,478 

 Meteoric fire-ball at New Haven, 487 

 phenomenon described by 



Chladni, 488 

 Meteorological diary for June, July and 

 August, 1827, 236 



for September, 



October, and November, 500 



Essays by Mr..Daniell, 379 



observations atChiswick, plan 



of a journal of, 1G9 



Mexico founded by the Aztees, 359 



Microscope, Dr. Brewster quoted re- 

 specting the improvement of the, 17 



with a double convex dia- 

 mond lens, 17 



, with sapphire lenses, 406 



