INDEX. 



Abbiati, Signer, specimens of art by, 423 

 Abyssinians, singular fact relative to some, 



'285 

 Acbatinella, a new group of shells, charac- 

 ters of, 81 

 Achromatic, solar, 115 

 Aerolites, fall of, 233 ' 

 Africa, population of, 92 

 Ahuitzotl, King of Mexico, 144 

 Ainger, Mr., on the architecture of St. 

 Paul's Cathedral, 172 



■ on time-keepers, 418 



— — on domestic and ecclesias- 

 tical architecture, 437 

 Air, weight of, 31 



phenomena produced by a current of, 



168 

 •— on the resonances or vibrations of co- 

 lumns of, 175 

 — Balloons, on the origin of, 29 

 Alcohol, purification of, 228 

 Alfred, King, the founder of the naval 



power of England, 427 

 Althea and Asparagine, Identity of, 227 

 Alumlne, native sulphate of, 382 

 America, United States of, inland naviga- 

 tion of, 1 



and Tartary, comparative history 



of, 356 

 American Indians, origin of the, 135 



description of some, 327 



Araiclan reflectors, improved, 116 

 Ammonia, on the presence of, 225 



■ decomposition of, 476 



liquid, preparation of, 477 



Aquariums, 292 



Arago,Mr,, experiment of, 202, 213 



Architecture, naval, its present state in 



Britain, 427, 428 



on domestic and ecclesiasti- 



cal, 437 

 Aricara village, 330 

 Arsenic, reduction of, 376 



acid, its action on sugar, 488 



Arsenical Cobalt Ore, accenslon of, 226 

 Asia, on the population of, 89 

 Asparagine, its identity with ageodoite, 



492 

 Asparagus, improved culture of, 193 

 Assamese, customs of the, 352 

 Asthma, 47 

 Astronomical and nautical collections, 195, 



442 

 observations, 239 



Attush Kou, or Fire Hill, 350 

 Ava, natives of, 326 

 Aztecs, particulars concerning the, 

 359 



347, 



Babinet, M., on chemical action, 473 

 Bacon, Lord, extract from his '* Sylva Syl- 



varum," 176 



anecdote of, 283 



Sir Nicholas, his corpulence, 25 



Baillie, Dr., 161 



anecdote of, 166 



Bally, Francis, ilsq., letter to, 105 



Bakewell's geology, 370 



Balloons, air, origin of, 29 



Bangalla, King of, 341 



Barcelona, new calculation of the latitade 



of, 238 

 Bareuth, Margravine of, 23 



Ammoniuret of silver, mode of preparing, 



489 

 Anatomy, observations on, 156 

 Anderson, John, Esq., his mission to Su-jBark, different kinds of, 168 



matra, 22 Barlow, Professor, experiments of, 288 



Anecdotes, witty, curious, &c., 20, 23, 24, Bartram's Travels in Carolina, 332 — 335 



Beatty, Rev. Dr., his account of the Dela- 



25, 166,273,274,283 

 Anthropophagi, on the existence of, 22 

 Antimony, its separation from lead,&c. 488 

 Aniipaihies. curious, 286 

 Aphides, a kind of insect, 298 

 Applegath, Mr., printing machines of, 186, 



191 

 Apples, curious circumstances respecting, 



192 



American, 193 



Italian, 194 



antipathy to, 287 



Apricots, the food of earwigs, 79 



ware tribe, 336 

 Bell, Mr., an Indian priest, 335 



of Anterraony, 347 



Bengal, King of, 360 

 Beni Hassan, tomb at, 123 

 Berthollet, on mineral waters, 74, 76 

 Berzelius, Professor, on mineral waters, 



69, 71, 73 

 Bessel, M., astronomical observations by, 



246, 247 

 Bile, on the secretion of, 27, 161 

 Bitumen, earthy, 387 



