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INDEX. 



Soleb, on the river Nile, 184 



Solubility of substances by heat dimi- 

 nished, 202 



Sowando in Russia, fall of the lake, 227 



Spallanzani, investigations of, 142 



Spawn of fishes, Chinese method of 

 transporting the, 327 



Squadrons, experimental, 29 



Squalls of wind on the African shores* 

 486 



Stanley, near Wakefield, mineral spring 

 at, 21 



Stars, Mr. Lee's instrument for gaining 

 an early knowledge of them, 371 



Statistical Notices by Mr. Merritt, 283 



Steam and heat, experiments by Mr. 

 Perkins, 461 



Steam-engines, improvement in, 453 



Stoop, on the means used with the in- 

 tention of curing a, by Mr. Shaw, 287 



Stoves, heating them by hot water, 174 



Strawberries, novel method of culti- 

 vating, 168 



Street, Mr. John, on acclimatizing 

 plants, 164 



Strix Cunicularia, or Coquimbo owl, 

 494 



Sulphate of copper, its decomposition 

 by tartaric acid, 208 



Sulphocyanide of potassium in saliva, 

 208 



Sulphur, on certain properties of, 468 



Tar-water introduced as a remedy by 

 Bishop Berkeley, 342 



Tattam, Mr., his Coptic grammar, 92 



Tests, chemical ; litmus paper and tur- 

 meric paper, 279 



Theory of the oval and ellipse, applied 

 to an historical composition of Ra- 

 phael, 1 1 



Thomas Dawson, M.D. , hismarriage,330 



Thomson, Dr. Thomas, 60, 64 



Thought, experiments on, 308 



Tic douloureux, on, 346 



— — , surmise respecting its 



cause and nature, 108 



Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, 185 



Transportation of fishes, 326 



Trufle, organization and reproduction 

 of the, 491 



Tulley*s,Mr.W.,doubleobject-glass,254 



Turner, Dr. Edward, 60 



Turtle, fossil remains of the, 364 



Tobacco, a preve;jta;^^;^^^ga^nst disease, 

 55 ; old 



Toilet, Geo., Esq., on the preservation 



of apples, 168 

 Tooke, Home, his grammatical in 



inquiries, 95 

 Torpid animals, experiments on SCO 

 Torpor, vegetable, 228 

 Transpiration ; inquiry of Dr. Edwards 



into the causes of perspiration, 151 

 Tusks, species of elephants without,365 

 Tychsen, M., of Gottingen, 316 



Varley, Mr., 17. 

 Vases, Etruscan, 12 

 Vases, formed from the oval, 7 

 Villa Borghese, deserted, 52 

 Ville de Paris, the, her proportions, 33 

 Viper, bile of the, remedies, 232 

 on the poison of the, 232 



Vegetable diet important, in Africa and 



Hindostan, 55 

 Vegetable substances, condensed, and 



preserved for ships'provisions, 229 

 Velocity, the great purpose of naval 



construction, 34 

 Vesuvius, Mount, 226 

 Vogel, M. on heavy muriatic ether, and 



chloric ether, 204 

 Undulations of light, theory of the, 113 



Unicorn, the, 362 



Wadd, W., Esq., 346 



Watson, Sir William, his treatise on 



time, 310 

 Wild-beasts, their destruction by the 



Romans and Moguls, S66 

 Wilkes, John, his flashes of wit, 345 

 Wilkinson's, Mr., inscriptions, 319 

 Willaumez, Admiral, his frigates having 



a round stern, 36 

 Wine, M. A. Chevalier's tests for the 



natural colouring matter of, 215 

 Wiseman, Mr. W., on the correction of 



lunar observations, 135 

 West, Mr. William, his analysis of a 



mineral water, 22 

 Wohler's, M., cyanic acid, 203 

 Wollaston, Dr.,67, 276 

 Woods and coppices, occasioning dis- 

 ease, 104 

 Woodville, Dr., his death, 345 

 Writing, indelible, 223 

 Writing, the formal Egyptian, 177 



Young, Dr., 113, 316, 318. 



Zinc, preparation of pure oxide of, by 

 M. Hermann, 476 



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