CONTENTS. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



On the Direction of the Radicle and Germeti, during the Vegetation of 

 Seeds. By Thomas .'Andrew Knight, Esq. F. R. S. In a Letter to the 

 Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, K. B. P. R. S. . 927 



On the inverted Action of the Alburnons Vessels of Trees. By Thos. An- 

 drew Knight, Esq. F. R. S, In a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph 

 Banks, K. B. P. R.S. . . . . 932 



An Account of the Genus Termes. From Shaic's General Zoology. Vol. 6. 



USEFUL PROJECTS. 



List of Patents for Inventions, Sfc. granted in the Year 1806 . 955 



Remarks on sundry important Uses of the Potatoe. Abridged from Letters 

 and Papers of the Bath and West of England Society . 962 



An Essay on Manures. By Arthur Young, Esq. Abridgedfrom tjie Bath 

 Papers, Vol. 10 '. . . . 965 



Account of Mr. Curwen's Method of Feeding Cows, during the Winter Sea- 

 Son, with a View to provide poor Persons and Children with Milk at that 

 Time, from Transactions of the Society of Arts,S)'c. Vol. XXIX. 1806 



974 



Mr. S. Grand i's Method )f preparing Pannels for Painters. From 

 Transactions of the Society of Arts, Sf«. A. D. 1806. Vol. XXIV 978 



Method of Purifying Oil for Painting . . . 97^ 



On Means of assisting Persons in Danger of Drouming. By Mr. H. 

 Lawson .... • , ih. 



Easy Method of Purifying Water — Bib. Phys. Econ. . 982 



ANTIQUITIES. 



An Essay toivards an History of Temples and Round Churches, from " th 



Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain," by John Britton, F. S. A. 



983 

 Architectural Nomenclature . • . . 989 



Account of the Ruins of Carthage, and of Udena in Barbary, hy John 



Jackson, Esq. F. A. S- in a Letter to John Wilkinson, M. D, F. R. S. 



and F.A.S. . . . . . 990 



Same Remarks on the Ancient Ceremony of the Feast of Fools, and on a 



Sculpttired Girdle wvrn at its Celebration. By- Francis Douce, Esq. 



F.A.S,. . . . . 996 



MIS- 



