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INDEX. 



Thompson, Mr. J., his review of fifty 



kinds of grapes, 140 

 Tilloy, Mr., obtains citric acid from 



gooseberries, 222 

 Timkovski's Travels in China, 232 

 Tin, muriate of, its preparation, 218 

 Tissot, M., on hardening plaster casts, 



&c., 198 

 Titanic acid, preparation of, 439 

 Tobol, river, 340 

 Torbron, Mr., his improved method of 



grafting pears, 139 

 Tourmalines, electric eflFects of, 201 

 Trant, Captain, his account of Ava, 



quoted, 144 

 Tredgold, Mr., on heating stoves, 166 

 Troost, Dr. Gerard, 380 

 TuUey, Mr., his new reflecting micro- 

 scope, 193 

 Tiinnermann, M., amylic acid discovered 



by, 444 

 Turks, particulars respecting, 145 

 Turpentine, Venice, constituent of, 445 

 Typhus fever, remarks on, 38 



Ultramarine, artificial production of, 

 216 



Undulation, theory of, 177 



United States of America, inland navi- 

 gation of, 24, 292 



Unverdorben, M,, on pinic acid, 445 



Usseldon, siege of, 269 



Vaigou, fall of an aerolite* at, 233 



Van Beek, on the electric powers of me- 

 tals, 200 



Vanguard, particulars respecting the, 

 321 



Varvinski, M., on the decomposition of 

 boracic acid by hydrogen, 434 



Vege to -alkalies, new, 443 



Verniere, Dr., on prevention of death by 

 poison, 452 



Viper, red, of Dorsetshire, 228 



Vitriol, blue, preparation of, 218 



Vines, mode of training, 164 



Voisenon, Abb6 de, anecdote of, 244 



Voracity, extraordinary, 239 



Wackenroder, M,, on a new vegeto- 



alkali, 443 

 Wadd, Wm., Esq., his Lineaments of 



Leanness, 76 



his facts towards a history of 



eating, drinking, and sleeping, 237 

 Wasp, cure for its sting, 227 

 Water, on the elevation of, 332 



its compression in different 



vessels, 422 



salt, maximum density of, 



423 

 Water-pipes, on their arrangements in 



streets, 196 

 Watt, Mr., steam-engines of, 6 

 Weather, its action on building ma- 

 terials, 421 

 Whale, Greenland, its structure and eco- 

 nomy, 13 — fins, ib. — tail, 14 — extra- 

 ordinary functions of the heart, 1 5 — 

 blubber, 16 — quantity of oil, 17 — ex- 

 terior clothing, 18 — velocity of motion, 

 19 — timidity, 20 — tremendous mus- 

 cular force, ib. — affection for their 

 young, 21 — want of teeth, 22 — tongue, 

 23 

 Whitmore, Col., researches of, 385 

 Wine, modei'ate use of, 241 



maturation of, 451 



Winter cough, remarks on, 96 



Wire, brass, its alteration in the air, 



204 

 Woehler, M., experiments of, 209 

 WoUaston, Dr., experiments of, 170 

 Wood, Nicholas, the great eater, 239 

 Wool, on the dyeing of, 427 

 Wurtemberg, Duke Henry, on hydro- 

 phobia in foxes, 453 



Yelin and Fuchs, their experiments on 



alcohol, 224 

 Yellow fever, observations on, 42, 61 

 Young, Dr., 389 



■, on his method of computing 



the longitude of a fixed star, 467 



Zinc, alcoated chloride of, 443 

 Zoophites, 313 



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