INDEX. 



Darwin, Dr. on reverie, no 

 DecandoUe, fee " Flora Frangois." 

 Delambrie, M. on refraction, S2G.~- 



Hi* report from the Clafs of Science, 



334 

 Delamethere, Dr. 261 

 Defmarets, Mr. on ancient piece 



goods, 3Z.S 

 Deformcs on ultramarine, 136. — On 



Roman alum, 334 

 Diana's tree, 373 

 Difpan, M. on the congtlatlon of 



water, 251.: — His theory contro- 

 verted, 341 

 Diver, A, on the poflibility of diftin- 



guifhing objects under water, 39, 



Duhamel on lead works, i 



Dumont Courfct's " Botanifte Culti- 



vateur," 3216 

 Dust depofited on the decks and 



rigging of fliips at a diftance from 



land, 10 

 Dutcrtre, M. 160 ^ 



Duvernay, M. his anatomical re- 



fearches, 334 



PJdgworth, R. L. Efq. letter from, 81 



Education among the Greeks, ^07 



Etlluvia from ammonia muriate of 

 platlna, remarkable effect of, 22a 



Electric light, abforption of, by dif- 

 ferent bodies 281 



Electricity, on the propagation of, 

 166 



Engraving on blocks, prize for the 

 encouragement of, 80 



Epictetus on the Olympic games, 70 



Epocha, planetary, 339 



Erfurt, academy of ufeful fciences at, 



337 



Efeapement, Graham's, 133 



Efcapements, detached, owe their in- 

 vention to P. Le Roy, 159 



'Feeding, during a courfc of training, 

 not fubject to any general rule, 176 



Fermentation in vegetables caused by 

 theprefenceof albumen, 333 



Fernandes, Don D. on thcfurcharge 

 which the muriate of filver is capa- 

 ble giving of to cornets for parting, 



374 ^ . , 



Fiflies, arrangement, and mechanical 

 motion of their mufcie»j 195 



Flinders, Capt. his barometrical ob- 

 fervations on the coaft of New South 

 Wales, Cochinchina, &c. 14 



" Flora Fran90ife," by M. M. La 

 Marck and DecandoUe, 326 



« Flora of New Holland," byM.De 

 la Billardiere, 326 



" Flora of Ovareand Benin," by M. 

 De Beauvais, 326 



Fluoric acid in foffil teeth, 333 



Food, confidcrations of the moft nu- 

 tritious, drawn from the method of 

 training the ancient athletae, 71 



Foot races, ancient, 68 



Follil bones of quadrupeds, 326,333. 

 —Prize, queftion refpecting, 338 



Fourcroy, M. his " Philofophy of 

 Chemiftry," 327.— On the late dif- 

 covcries on platina, 328. — On flu- 

 oric acid In follil teeth, 334 



Franklin, Dr. his advice to fwimmers, 

 3% 153. 267 



Fricdlander, M. on the use of pow- 

 dered charcoal to preferve water, 

 226 



Frofls, black and white, explained, 



Fumigation by oximuriatic acid, 334 



G. 



Galen on the training of gladiators, 

 70 



Galvanic experiments, 50, 78, 248, 

 330 



Games of Greece and Rome, aio, 

 312 



Gasea, Don Mariano La, 224 



Gerard's " Paftorai Care," extract 

 from, 118 



Gilpin, Mr. his account of a crane, 

 with the description of a method 

 of working the common chain in 

 machinery, so as to exceed ropes 

 in flexibility and strength, 126 



Gladiators of the Romans, 69, 210 



Goerlitz Society, their prize queries, 



Gottingen Univerfity, 337 



Gough, John, Efq. his obfcrvations 

 and expdriment», to fliow that the 

 effects afcribed by M. Difpan to 

 the perpendicular defcent of hoar- 

 froft are not fo general as to fup- 

 port^his theory, 341 



Graham's dead beat efcapemeat, 133, 

 163. — His fector, 335 



Grange, Boulnioia, on tannin, 333 



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