INDEX. 



ABSENCE of mind, 108. — Remedies 



for the CJire of, 115 

 Acetate of lilvcr, 374 

 Acids and alkali produced in pure 



water by galvanifm, ^o, 330 

 Activity, a04 

 Afllnities, ciicmical, refearches on, 



3*7 

 Africa, conjecture refpecting the fcas 



and lakes in the interior of, 324 

 Agriculture, 188 

 Albumen in vegetables, 33a 

 Alibert, M. 147 

 Alum, Roman, imitated fuccefsfully, 



334 . . 



Ammonia, nitrate of, explanation of 

 a common impurity in, 286 



Amufement, 203 



Analyfis of tannin, 15.— -Ultramarine, 

 136,— .Human hair, 141. — Meteoric 

 flones, 147.— Hepatic ore of mer- 

 cury, 228. — Afparagus, 242 — Na- 

 tive cinnabar, 245.— Oifanite and 

 Titanium, 322 



Anatomical notices, 334 



Anatomy of iiilies, 195 



Animals without vertebrae, 326 



Apparitions originate in a difeafed 

 state of fyftem 289 



Arbor Dianae, 373 



Arnold's claim to the invention of 

 the compenfation balance, contro- 

 verted, 164 



Aflaying ores of filver, 375 



Afparagus, difcovery of a new vege- 

 table principle in, 242, 332 



Athletae of the Romans, 69, 206 



Athletic exercifes, extracts from a 

 collection of papers on, 6jy 103, 

 176 



B. 

 Bacon, Lord, on diet, 77 

 Banks, Sir Jofeph, letter to, on the 



permanency of the variation of the 



compafs at Jamaica, 383 

 Barbarifm, aoj 



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abufe of popular fports and e:ter- 

 cifes refemliling thofe of the Greeks 

 and Romans, as a natioaal object, 

 106,203, 312 



Baronio, Dr. his vegetable galvanic 

 pile, 249 



Barrows " Travels in Africa," 216 



Bath waters, early account of, 296 



Bathing, warm, beneficial after great 

 corporeal exertion, 73 



Baycn, on phlogifton, loi 



Beans, culture of, preparatory to a 

 wheat crop, 188 



Beauvais, M. JDe, his " Flora of O vara 

 and Benin, 326.— Defcription of 

 infects collected on the African 

 and American coafts," ib. 



Benctt, Mr. on the construction of 

 the anchor and pallets ia Graham's 

 dead beat efcapemcnt, 133 



Bergmap,9i 



Bernhardi, ProfeiTor, on Iceland crys- 

 tiilj 338 



Bernouilli on mechanical force, 2,7, 



Berthollet's propofal of carbonifing 

 the inlide of v/ater caiks, 225.— 

 Its success, 226. — His refearchcs oa 

 the chemical affinities, 327 



Berthoud, Mr. i6o 



Beftiarii among the Romans, 211 



Bile, faccharine matter in, 332 



Billardiere, M. De la, his " Flora of 

 New Holland," 326 



Biot, M. on refraction, 330 



Birds' nefts of the eaft, examination 

 of, 262 



Blowpipe, a portable, defcribed, 284 



Boring machine of Mr. Ryan, re- 

 commended, 83 



Bofwell, Mr. Remarks on his paper 

 on invariable pendulums, 84 



Botanical works recently pulxliflicd, 

 326 



" Botanifte Cultivateur," by Dumont 

 Courfet, 326 



Bouguer's improvement of the lelelV 

 cope, Z2S 



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