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INDEX. 



Gulstonian lectures, 158 



Gum Arabic, its influence on lead, 376 



Hachette, M., his small mouth tubes, 170 

 Hair, growth of, 498 

 Hall, l3r., on the agency of carbonic acid, 

 262 



on the act of vomiting, 388 



Hamilton, Dr., on the duodenum, 159 



Sir W., 69 



Hansi Hisar, 350 



Harwood, Dr., on the Greenland whale, 



417 

 on the natural history of 



fishes, 439 

 Head-ache, on the, 55 

 Health, dependant on diet, 18 

 Heat, evolved during combustion, 220 



conducting power of, 472 



Heat and Steam, experiments on, 481 

 Hemlock, active principle of, 227 

 Henderson, T. Esq., lunar observations 



made by, 215, 468 

 Henry VIIL, ships built by, 428 

 Herrick, Mr., his account of American 



Indians, 327 

 Herschel, Sir W,, 241, 243 

 Hieroglyphical Fragments, 122 

 Hieroglyphics, lectures on, 440 

 Hippocrates, the father of medicine, 19, 



26, 164 

 Hockey's improved log-ship, 173 

 Hotfman, works of, 157 

 Hooke, Mr., experiment by, 425 

 Horticultural society, proceedings of the, 



192 

 Horticulture, improvements in, 291 

 Huitziton, anecdote of, 363 

 Humboldt, Baron, extracts from his re- 

 searches, 144, 146, 148, 150, 151,354, 



355, 366 

 Hume's essay on population, 86, 96, 102 

 Hunter's observations on digestion, 29 

 Hydriotic acid gas, preparation of, 475 

 Hygrometer, new, account of a, 402 

 Hysteria, 46 



lamandaga, aCalmuc idol, 145, 151 



Idiosyncrasy, 286 



Idols, Calmuc, 145 



Incas, the, 347 



Indians, American, origin of, 135 



' description of some, 327 



Indigo, American name for, -324 

 Inland navigation of the United States, 1 

 Insects that infest fruit trees, 300 

 Intelligence, Miscellaneous, 216,469 

 Iodides of carbon, 482 

 Iodine, found in mineral waters, 384 

 lodo-fluoric acid, on, 224 



Iron, heated, experiments oo, 288 



silicate of, 373 



boruret of, 487 



slag, presence ofcolumbium in, 478 



Irving, Washington, his life of Columbus, 



327,339,341 

 Isis, figure of, 151 

 Ispahan, hill near, 350 

 Italy, population of, 96 



Java, musical instruments from, 173, 178 

 Jew's harp, performances on, 181 

 Johnson, C, W., Esq., his remarks on saline 



manures, 313 

 Johnston, V. W., on the presence of chlo- 

 rine in oxide of manganese, 154 

 Jones, Mr., hygrometer of, 403 

 Juarros, Don Domingo, his history of Gua- 

 temala, 323,327 



Kalkas, particulars respecting the, 358 



KUstner, professor, error of, 67, 68 



Keil, the physician, 161 



Kenong, a musical instrument, 174 



Kerlon, cities on the, 352 



Kirkland, Rev. S., fort described by, 338 



Knowles, Mr. J., on Naval Architecture, 



424, 426 

 Koenig, Mr., his printing machine, 185 

 Kublai, emperor, 346, 360, 364, 369 



Laboratory, operations of the, 439 

 Lana, Francisco, on telescopes, &c. 29 

 Las Palmas, register kept at, 127 

 Lavoisier and Seguin, conclusions of, 309 

 Leake, Dr., fever described by, 27 

 Leeches, communication of disease by, 499 

 preservation of, 499 



Leniii Lenape, an Indian tribe, 337 

 Lenses, observations on, 112 

 Lewis, Wm., his consumption of ale, 274 

 Lewis's History of the Parthian empire, 



147 

 Light, theory of, 1 98 

 influence of. 311 



Lime, its combination with water, 225 

 chloride of, 484 



Lindley, John, Esq., his account of a nevr 



genus of plants, 104 

 Lingard, Mr,, on fungi and dry rot, 172 

 Liver, affections of the, 157 

 London, supply of water in, 405 

 Long, John, his trellis for vines, 305 

 Longcliamp, M., on mineral waters, 68 

 Lorry, M., on acute diseases, 26, 28 

 Loudon's Gardeners' Magazine, 305 

 Lunar occultations of the fixed stars, 215 



468 

 MacCulloch, Dr., his essay on remittent and 



intermittent diseases, &c, reviewed, 34 



