INDEX. 



Philofophy of Chemiftiy, notice of 



Phyfic not much ufed in training men 

 and horfcs for athletic exercifes, 

 and for the courfe, 176 



Piazzi's difcovery of the planet Ce- 

 res, 260 



Pictet, M. his anatomical researches, 

 .334 



Piece goods, ancient, examined, ^'^^ 



Pike, fee Carp 



Pine's pendulums, 2s 



Planetary affinity, 337 



Planetary epocha, 339 



Platina, history of the late difcove- 

 ries on, 328. — Ore of, 337 



Plica Polonica,a fuperfluous fecretion 

 of the matter oi the hair, 147 



Porcelain made from Spuma Maris, 

 2z6 



Pouteau, Dr. on the diasta aquea in 

 cafes of cancer, 76 



Prieltley's experiments in chemiftry, 

 99 



Proufl:, M. on manganefi in meteoric 

 ftones, 148— On porcelain, and the 

 alimentary ufc of lichen iflandicus, 

 224 — On nitrate of foda, 26a — On 

 birds' ncfts eaten in China, &c. iL 



Prouft, M. on filver, 367 



Pfyffer, General, 152 



Pugilifm, its advantages over eveiry 

 other fpecles of contefl, 319 



Pyrrhic dance of the Greeks, 2,10 



Qj_ his practical rules for reducing 

 the apparent diftance of the moon 

 from the fun, or from a fixed liar, 

 to the true diftance, for the pur- 

 pofe of afcertaining the longitude 

 of the place of obfcrvation, 253 



(^nquertium of the ancients, aio 



R. 



Race horfes, phyfic, food, &c. for, 179 

 R. B. on the intellect and moral con- 

 duct of infants, 42, 181 

 Records of Literature, 340 

 Recreation, 203 



Refraction, curious refearch on, 330 

 Regimen, modern inllanccs of the 

 efTects of, upon the human confti- 

 tutlon, 76 



, Reld, Mr. his ftatcmcuts relating t9 

 the hiftory of chronometry, cor- 

 rected, 159 



Reverie, as connected with litera- 

 ture, io8 



Rey's chemical theory, 99, 102 



Rhodium, defcription of, 329 



Rickwood, W. S.Efq. 176 



Ritter, Profeflbr, his expei;iments on 

 magnetifm, 78 



R. M. on fome errors contained la 

 Mr. Reid's paper on chronome- 

 ters, &c. 159 



Roard, M. on Roman alum, 334 



Robertfon, Mr. j. on the variation of 

 the compafs at Jamaica, 383 



Robiquet on afparagus, fee Afparagus 



Roman alum, fee Alum 



Roman games more brutal than thofe 

 of Greece, 210 



Ropes, Icfs fafe than chains for ralf- 

 ing great weights, 129 



Rofenburgh, Mount, account of the 

 fall of its fummit, 149 



Rot in . flaeep, the horfe-thcfnut a 

 fpecific againfl, 264 



Roulleau's Emilius, 49 



Roy, Le, the inventor of detached, 

 cfcapements, 159, 164 



Rozier, Abbe, 160 



Rumford, Count, on the adhefion of 

 the particles of water to each other 



52,157,173,327 

 Ryan, Mr. his patent bormg ma- 

 chine, 83 



^ S. 



Sadler, Mr. J. his defcription of the 

 procefs for refining lead.-— On a 

 comnioa impurity in the nitrate of 

 ammonia, which interferes with 

 the production of nitrous oxide, 

 286 



Salmon, Mr. R his model of an im- 

 proved canal lock, 348 



Sandevir, Mr. 178 



Scheuchzer, 92 



Schubert, Mr. 226 



Scientific News for September, 77— 

 October and November, 259 — De- 

 cember, 3»4 



Sculpture, ancient, why fuperior to 

 that of all other ages, 68 



Sea, facts and obfervaticns on the 

 phenomena by which its furface is 

 afTcctcd, 6 



