INDEX. 447 



Knight's trimmiug hammers, 163 



Knowles, Mr., his lectures on naval archi- 

 tecture, 223 



Kramer, M., on the preparation of red 

 ferro-prussiate of potassa, 411 



Kuhlman, M., on a combination of acids, 

 17G,— on artificial ultramarine, 182 



Kiihloch and Rabenstein, destruction of 

 the caves of, 214 



Kupfer, M. A. T., on the specific gravity 

 of alloys, 185, — his analysis of air, 

 409 



Lambert's Illustrations of the genus 



Cinchona, 318 

 Lamp, monochromatic, 39G 



, odoriferous, 173 

 Land batteries, practice respecting, 220 

 Lapis Lazuli, appellation of, 246 

 Lead, carbazotate of, 179 — alloys of, 185 

 — — — dichromate of, 359 

 Lebreton, M., 194 

 Leech-bites, to check the bleeding from, 



199 

 Lehman, observation of, 37 

 Lerut, M., on the use of metallic ligatures, 



429 

 Leudersdorff, M. F., 437 

 Libyan mountain, tombs in, 126 

 Lichen Rocella, colouring matter of, 192 

 Liebeg, M.,180 — on indigo, 269 — process 



of, 417 

 Ligatures, metallic, applied to arteries, 429 

 Light, method of obtaining instantly, 180 

 — impressions produced on the eye by, 

 395 

 Lights, use of, in the Cornish fisheries, 133 

 Lime, chloride of, its disinfecting powers, 



410, 428 

 Line, ships of, their construction and sail- 

 ing qualities, 219 

 Linnaeus, teeth described by, 334 — genera 



of, 346 

 Lithia, sulphate of, 411 



muriate of, ib. 



Lithium, proportional number of, 410 

 Loiret, progress of storms in the deparU 



mentofthe, 214 

 Locomotion, why denied to plants, 280 

 London, state of the streets of, 293 — plan 

 for improving the carriage pavement, 

 384 

 Longchamp, M., experiments by, 172 

 Lotz, M., on artificial incubation, 438 

 Louis XIV. his encouragement of science, 



224 

 Lov-on, island of, new mineral discovered 



in, 296 

 Lowenhardt, Dr., 199 

 Lugal, Dr., on cases of scrofula, 432 

 Liitke, Capt., observations of, 9-»— ex- 

 tract of a letter of, 11 



Macadmiziug system, 294, 384 



Mac Culloch, Dr. J., op classifications of 

 rocks, 34 — on a method of cultivating 

 plants in walls, for ornaments, &c, 53 

 — on the use of lights in the Cornish 

 fisheries, 133 — on a prismatic structure 

 in sandstone, induced by artificial heat, 

 247 



M'Lean, Mr., case of, 311 



Madden's Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nu- 

 bia, and Palestine, reviewed, 113 



Magnetic influence of the violet ray, 462 

 observations in Siberia, 1 

 ariation daily, 397 



Magnetism, its application to medicine, 

 397— its supposed influeuce over che- 

 mical or crystallizing powers, 407 



■ " of the earth, experiments on,14 



terrestrial, 212 



Magnets, artificial, and their uses, 396 

 Males and females, ratio of the births of 



439 

 Malic acid, composition of, 416 

 Malvezy, well at, 433 

 Manganese, arseniurct of, chemical ex- 

 amination of, 381 — new oxide of, 421 

 Marcet, M. experiments by, 172, 234 

 Marshall, Commander, on naval ordnance, 



229 

 Mattrucci, Carlo, his letters to Professor 



Gazzeri, on the electricity of the solar 



rays, 173, 420, 434 

 Meat, its preservation by means of ice, 



428 

 Mechanical Science, 161, 392 

 Medicinal roots, gathering of, 208 

 Meizlink, M. B , experiments by, 172 

 Mercury, detection of small quantities of 



183 

 Metals, structure of, 163 

 Meteorology, remarks on, 215 

 Meteorological Diary for June, July, and 



August, 1829, 218 



, for September, October, 



and November, 442 



Metropolis, state of the streets of, 293— 

 plan for improving the carriage-pave- 

 ment, 384 



Mevlinck and Hensmans, their processes 

 for ascertaining the adulteration of 

 broad, 420 



Miallre, M., his cement for iron filings, 406 



Milk, process for preserving, 203 



Mineral, new, analysis of, 298 



Mineral waters of Gastrin, analysis of, 194 



Minerals, siliceous analysis of, 413 



Mirage, described, 129 



Miscellaneous Intelligence, 161, 392 



Mirbel, observation of, 291 



Mole, its natural history, 205 



Monochromatic lamp, 396 



Morichinij Professor, experiments of, 402 



