INDEX. 



Bouillon la Grange — fee Grange. 

 Boxing, its moral efTects, 106, 316 

 Brefli, Mr. 263 



Brick and tile furnaces, premium 

 for iniprovmg the conftruction of, 



^? 

 Britifli fports, 215, 315 



Bruhl, Count de, 163 



Buchan, Dr. on the manner of treat- 

 ing the ancient athletics, 67, 103 



Bucholz, M. on the oreof platina,3 ^7 

 —His experiments on the feeds of 

 lycopodium, 338 



Bull-fights, 210, 31a 



Bunbury, Sir Chai-les,on the methods 

 of training men and horfes 176 



Burckkaidt, Mr. a6o 



C. 



CabaMe, M. 141 

 Camus, I.e, i6® 

 Canal l.ocks, dcfcription of a model 



for elevating and dcprclllng water, 



in, 348 

 Cancers, the pain of greatly alleviated 



by the dieeta aquea, 75 

 Caoutchoue, or elaftic gum, query 



respecting, 340 

 Carbonat of filver, 373 

 Carlisle, Mr. his surgical lectures, 172. 



— On the arrangement and me^!ia- 



nxal action of the n\ufcli;s of fiflies, 



Carp and pike, method of coni^eying 



alive to a great distance, 263 

 Carrots, culture of, j 7 

 Cafpian Sea, diminution of, ;i2S 

 Caula, M. his ofter of a prize for a 



theory respecting foffil bones, 388 

 Chains, in machinery, application of, 



in lieu of ropes, 126 

 Chariot races of the ancients, 210 

 Charras' chemical theory, 99 

 Chemical affinities—see affinities. 

 Chemical news, 327 

 Chemical theory, Lavoi Tier's claims to 



the invention of, difcu/Ted, 98 

 Chefnut, the horfe, used in Saxony 



as a specific against the rot in 



flieep, 264 

 Chevrcuil, M. 14I 

 Chladni's experiments on the tremiv- 



Jous motion of the particles of 



bodies in the production of sound, 



170 

 Chromiunj difcovered in meteoric 



ftones, 330 



Chronomctry, 159 



Cinnabar, prize for the fabrication of, 

 80 ^ 



Cinnabar, native, chemical Examina- 

 tion of, 245 



Circcnfian games of the ancients, 210 



Civilization, 205 



Clairaut, M. 336 



Clanny, Dr letter from, refpccting 

 Dr. Mayow's account of the Bath 

 waters, 296 ■ ^ 



Clement, M. on UltramaFine, 136 



Clock, an improved, 346 



Clouds, their influence on the furfacc 

 of the fea, 6 



Cock fights, 2IO, 220, 313 



Coffee, component parts of, 332 



Compafs, variation of the, 3^3 



Conant, J. C. Efc^. his inveftigation 

 of the principles which Ibow that 

 it would be much fafer to jump 

 from the back of a carriage, when 

 run away with by unruly horfes, 



Congelation of water, 251, 341 

 Correa de Serra, Dr. on fubmarine 



timber, 91 

 Correfpondent, A, on fome errors in 



Mr Reid's paper on chronometry. 



159 

 Correfpondent, A, on the phantafms 



produced by difordered fcufation, 



288 

 Correfpondent, An Occasional, on a 



remarkable effect of the efttuvia c>f 

 : ammonia muriate of platina, on 



the cyest noftrils, throat, and lungs, 



222 



Corpulency, to reduce, 178 ' 



Cranes, improvement in, 130 



Crell's Journal, 226 



Crofwaite's pendulums, 85 



Cruelty to animals, 216, 315 



Cupel or teft ufed in refining lead, 3 



Curandean, M. on Roman alum, 334 



Currents in the ocean, 8 



Curwen, J. C. Efq. on the culture of 



Beans preparatory to a wheat crop, 



188 

 Cuthbertfon, Mr. communication 



from, 264, 281 

 Cuvier, M. his anatomical refearches, 



326,334 



D. 



Damas, M. his anatomical refearches, 

 334 



