INDEX 



Aberdeen, great storm in the county of, 



328 

 Academy of Medicine, at Paris, 428 



of Sciences, of Berlin, 401 



of Sciences, f at St. Petersburg!), 



meeting of, 302 

 Acetate of morphia, effects of, 198 

 Achromatic spectacles, 402 

 telescopes, observations on, 



106, 379 

 Acid, carbazotic, method of obtaining it 



pure, 179 

 , glaucic, 191 

 — — hydrocyanic, effect of muriatic and 



sulphuric acid on, 176 



■ malic, composition of, 416 



■ muriatic, its use in cleansing mo- 

 numents, 398 



■ pectic, mode of obtaining, 189 



phosphoric, observations on, 408 



rosaic, 199 



sulphuric, an adjunct to the pre- 

 paration of bark, 316; production of 

 from the vapours of the Aix waters, 409 

 Acids, tartaric, action of, 388 

 ' formation of, in vegetables, 191 

 Air, atmospheric, diffusion of gases into, 



75 

 Albers, Dr., on phrenology, 203 

 Albumen, new proximate principle from, 



419 

 Alcohol, an effective solvent, 310 

 Aldini, Chevalier, apparatus constructed 



by, 398 

 Alexandria, climate of, 119 j plague at, 



121 

 Alix, M., curious apple-tree in his posses- 

 sion, 425 

 Alkalies, apparatus for ascertaining the 

 value of different ones, 89 — new ones 

 obtained from cinchona, 417 

 Allemain, an Italian apothecary, 235 

 Alloys, their specific gravity, 185 — new 



method of analyzing, 412 

 Alpine plants, list of, 68 

 America, North, wild pigeons in, 203 



South, changes in animals in, 204 



American line of battle ships, 226 

 Ammonia, action of iron on, 175 

 Amulets, power of, 117 

 Amusat, M., on the torsion of arteries, 



428 

 Animal and vegetable substances, differ- 

 ent methods of preserving, 436 

 Animals, changes in, 204— structure of, 



336 

 Apple-tree, curious, 425 

 Architects, naval, 223 

 Arctic regions, red snow of, 206 

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Arfwedson, M., his process for the analy 

 sis of borax, 180 



Aristotle, definition of, 292 



Arnott, Dr., his natural philosophy, 405 



Arran. shale of, 259, 261 



Arsenic, sulphurets of, their effects on the 

 animal system, 198— detection of, 357 



Arseniuretof manganese, chemical exa- 

 mination of, 381 



Arteries, torsion of the, 428 — metallic 

 ligatures applied to, 429 



Artillery, naval, use of, 219 



Asfedson, discovery of, 410 



Asterias and other radiate animals, 288 



Astringents, efficacy of, 309 



Astronomy, particulars relative to, 401 



Atmosphere, composition of the, 409 



Badam, Mr., process of, 359 

 Baker, Sir George, 307 

 Baltic, water of the, 203 

 Barbadoes, visited by darkness, 32 

 Bark, different genera and species of, 210 



— properties of, 307 — the pale and the 



yellow, 318 

 Barley-sugar, crystallization of, 356 

 Barlocci, Professor, his memoir on the 



influence of solar light, 174 

 Barpay, M., on animal and vegetable sub- 

 stances, 436 

 Barras, F. de, on the composition of bones, 



419 

 Barruel, M., his experiments on blood,187 

 Batka, M., 173 



Battery, galvanic, construction of, 71 

 Beasts, four-footed, arrangement of, 336 

 Becker, Dr., on the effects of magnets, 



397 

 Becquerel, M., experiment of, 409 

 Bedolah, or Bedolach, observations on the 



word, 245 

 Bedouin maxim, 129 

 Bergman, 266 

 Berthier, M., 413 

 Berthollet, his experiments on gases, 74 



—on indigo, 266 

 Berzelius, Jacob, his analysis of a new 



mineral, 296 



, M., on the atomic weights of 



iodine and bromine, 174— experiment 

 mentioned by, 176 — his analysis of 

 platina ores, 184 — his treatise on the 

 blow-pipe, 234 — his experiments on 

 indigo, 267 — his discovery of a new 

 earth, 412 



Be van, Mr., on the force of pressure, 392 



Bird, Mr., 235 



Birds, different colours of the eggs of, 440 



Bladder, singular inflation of one, 88 

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