INDEX. 



Second fight of the Highlanders, 114 



Seguiu, M. on the component parts 

 of coffee, 33Z. — On tlie fermenta- 

 tion of vegetables, ib. 



Sheep fed with horfe-chefnuts, 464 



Shetland, mineraJogy of, 353 



Shoemakers* machine, 163 



Silver,fact8 towards forming a hiftory 

 of, 367 



Sinclair, Sir John, on athletic cxer- 

 cifes, 67,1^3,176 



Siquicra. M. 224 



Skrimfhire, Mr. on the abforption of 

 electric light by different bodies, 

 a8i 



Smeaton on mechanical force, 33 



Smith, Mr. Wm. his improvement of 

 boggy land by irrigation, 30Z 



Soda, nitrate of, 26* 



{folar motion, quantity and velocity 

 of, 23a, 269 



Solar fpots recently obferved, 340 



Solitude, 114 



Sound, production of, 170 



Spheroidal triangles, 335 



Sports and excrcifes, the ufc and 

 abufe of, 203,215, 312, 315 



Spuma Maris, ufed in the manufac- 

 ture of pottery, 224 



Squalls at fca, their caufe and effects, 



Stahl's chemical theory, 99 



Stokes, Dr. on the claim of Lavoifier 

 to the invention of a chemical the- 

 ory, 98 



Stones, lliower of, 337 



Strutt's diverfions of the people of 

 England, 219 



Subterraneous road, made up-wards 

 of three centuries ago, 262 



Sully's efcapement for pendulum 

 clocks, 162 



Surcda's porcelain, 224 



Surgical Lectures,-! 72 



Swimming, facts relative to the art of, 

 39,153,266 



Sylvtfter, l\ir. Charles, his experi- 

 ment to produce acids and alkali in 

 pure water by galvanifm> je, 330 



T. 



Tannin, new facts refpecting, 15, 86, 



333 

 Taylor, Sam. Efq. his experiments 



on the growth of white-thorn, 285 

 Telcfcope of verification, 335 



Temperature, interior, of the earth, 



Tennant, Mr. his experiments on pla- 



tina,329 

 Tenon, M.his anatomical refeftrches, 



234 



Thcnard, M. his difcovery of chro- 

 mium, 330 — On the faccharine 

 matter in bile, ZZ''- — ^n Roman 

 alum, 334 



Thiout's treatifc on clockwork, 159 



'I homfon's chemiftry, 102 



Time-pieces, facts relative to the hif- 

 tory of, 159 



Titanium compared with Oifanlte, 

 322 



Town Life, T 14 



Training of men and animals, 67, 1*3, 

 176 



Tralles,M. 336 



Trebra, M. dc, on the interior tempe- 

 rature of the earth, 78 



Trail, Dr. T. T. on the mineralogy 

 of the Shetland Iflands, 353 



Tromfdorff, M. his experiments to 

 afford a more accurate knowledge 

 of the ore of platina, 337 



Tunnf^l, subterraneous,made upwards 

 of three centuries fince, 262 



Turpin, M.his anatomical refearchesi 

 334 



Ty-fong, in the Chlnefe feas, 1% 



V. 



Vauquelin, M. on human hair, 141, 

 334— On a newly difcovcrcd prin- 

 cf{)le in Afparagus, 242,332 — On 

 the chemical properties of oifanitc 

 compared with thofe of titanium^ 

 322— -On platina, 329— On fluoric' 

 acid in foifil teeth, 334 



Vegetables, albumen contained in, 

 the caufe of their fcrmentation,333 



Venation of the Romans, 211 



Ventenat's defcription of the garden 

 of Malmaifon, 326 



Veitebrae, animals deftitute of, 326 



Vifion under water, 39, 153, z66 



Von I'roil, 91 



U. 



Ultramarine, analyfis of, 13^ 



