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Index. 



272. 



Mercurial atmosphere, on a, 1 53. 

 Mercury', fulminating, on the application 



of, to the discharge of ordnance, '149. 

 Meteorological tables, by I\Ir. R. Howard, 



79, 159, 839, 319, 399, 473. 

 - journal kept at New Mai- 



ton, 133. 



kept at Heaton, 



. .- kept at Kinfauns 



CwUe, 372. 

 Micrometer, improved, notice of, 149. 

 Minerals, new, from Finland, notice of, 



233. 

 Mining intelligence, 236. 

 Mont Blanc, account of two late attempts 



to ascend, extract from, 33. 



' an account of an ascent to the 



summit of, 37S. 

 Mont Blanc, rocks of, described, 469. 

 Muriate of lime, composition of, 7. 

 ■-■- ■ ■ strontian, composition of, 6. 



N. 



Newman, Mr. on a machine to measure a 

 ship's way by the log line, 208. 



Nickel, on the atomic weight of, 250. 



Nickel, sulphate of, composition of, 250. 



Nitric acid, on a peculiar substance 

 obtained during the distillation of, 216, 

 217. 



Oil and coal gas, on, 209, 300, 383, 431. 



Oil, whale, on, 45. 



Ordnance, on an apparatus for discharg- 

 ing of, 89. 



Osmium, reduction of the salts and oxides 

 of, 424. 



Oxides of manganese, composition of, 51. 



Oxygen and azote, on the compounds of, 

 322. 



Oxy muriate of potash, on mixtures of, for 

 discharging ordnance, 202. 



P. 



Palladium, reduction of the salts and 



oxides of, 424. 

 Paris, Dr. Pharmacol<^ia, analysis of, 



223. 

 - on the physiology of the egg, 



351. 

 Patents, new, 75, 155,238,318,398,472. 

 Pelletier, M. on the iodide, oxides, and 



chlorides of gold, 470. 

 Penzance, on the comparative temperature 



of, 29i*— register of the weather at, 297. 

 Perkins, Mr. on compressibility of water, 



«22» 



Pharmacologia, or the history of medicinal 

 substances, &c. analysis of, 223. 



Pharniacopopia Collegii RIedicorum Edin- ^• 

 burgensia, analysis of, 58. 



Phillips, Mr. W. on the geology of the 

 Malvern Hills, 16. 



— — — Mr. R. on the action of chlorides 

 and water, 27 — on sulphate of indigo 

 as a test to detemiine the strength of 

 solutions of oxymuriate of lime, 72 

 — on the solution and crystallization of 

 lime, 1 07 — on the bicarbonate of 

 ammonia, 1 10 — experiments on a ^ 

 substance obtained during the distilla- 

 tion of nitric acid, 217 — analysis of 

 verdigris, 417. 



Phosphate of lead, composition of, 12. ^ 



lime, composition of, 12. 



Phosphoric acid, on the atomic weight of, * 

 9. 



Pliny, red snow mentioned by, 43. 



Pratt, Mr. S. P. description of a new 

 clinometer, 43. 



Prout, Dr. reply to Dr. Yelloly's remarks 

 on the estimate of mortality from the 

 operation of lithotomy, 4^6. 



Prussian blue, preparation, properties, and^ 

 analysis of, 440. »• 



Prussiate of potash and iron, compositioa 

 of, 435. C 



Prussiates, researches into the composi- 

 tion of, 219,301,433. 



Pyrallolit, a new mineral from Finland/ 

 234. ■ . 



.; ,i3vj<iO»i; 



a .ijfidoa Q* 



Quagga, and «S8, hybrid, bred from j 64^1 

 Quartz rock, remarks on, 67. *' f 



R. 



Radiation of caloric, 81. 



Rain, on the fall of, 45. 



Rain-guages, on, 111. 



Red rock marie, on the, 255. 



Red sandstone, newer, on the, 255. 



Rheum palmatum, composition of, 469. 



Rhodium, reduction of the salts and oxide 

 of, 424. 



Ricardo, Mr. on the comparative advan* 

 tages of oil and coal gas, by, 209 — fur- 

 ther observations on ditto, by, 383, 



RifFault, M. on ammoniacal alum, 72. 



Ritchie, Mr. on a new method of drawing 

 a tangent to a circle, 44. 



Roget, l)r. on Mr, Perkins's account of 

 the compressibility of water, 1 35. 



Romanzovit, a new mineral from Finland^ 

 233. 



Rot, dry, on, 45, 



