INDEX. 439 



Bagnold (Captain) account of a waterspout, 414. 



Banca, account of the tin-mines of, 412-414. 



Bank-notes, reports of the commissioners for inquiring into the 



mode of preventing the forgery of, 142-148. 

 Bats, observations on, 217. 

 Bengal (Bsiy of) formation of an island in, 197 

 Births, number of, at Paris in 1818, 213. 

 Bis ki kuiva, or poisonous air of India, effects of, 65, 66. 

 Black powder, fall of, from the air, 202. 

 Blake (Captain) description of the royal gardens of Lahore, 311- 



318. 

 Bonne, notice of the university at, 211, 212. 

 Bowdich (T. E.) proposals of, for an expedition into Africa, 428- 



430. 

 Braconnot, (M.) researches of, on the action of sulphuric acid 



on animal substances, 392-395. 

 Brande (W. T.) sketch of the history of alchyray, 225-239. 

 Brinkley (Professor) observations and elements of the orbit of 



the great comet of 1819, 164-167. 

 Bristol Literary and Philosophical Institution, foundation and 



plan of, 215,216. 

 £rMce, (Robert) account of the exhumation and re-interment of, 



138-142. 

 Brucine, a new vegetable alkali, production and properties of, 



186-189. 

 Burning Spring, description of, 196. 



Cadmium, observations on, 403-405. 



Cambridge university, number of members of, 428. 



Capuchin Missions of the Caroni, journal of an excursion to, 

 from St. Thome de Angostura, in Spanish Guyana, 1 — ex- 

 cursion from the mission of Santa Maria to that of Cu- 

 mano, 1, 2 — description of apotrero, or breeding farm, for 

 horses, 3 — arrival at Cumano, ibid — present state of that 

 mission, 4 — account of the mission of Miamo, 5 — Sunday 

 service of the negroes there, 6 — arrival at the mission of Tu- 

 meremo, 7 — notice of it, 8, 9 — of that of Tupuquen, 10 

 — of Carapo, 11 — Upata, 12 — Pastora, 13 — excursion into 

 its vicinity, 14 — mode of taming wild horses, 15 — arrival at 

 Puedpa, 16 — state of that mission, ibid. — and of that of 

 Santa Clara, 17 — mode of catching wild cattle, 18 — notice of 

 the mission of Euri or Guri, 19 — Caraib war-dance de- 

 scribed, ibid. — arrival at Cupapuy, 21 — excursion in the 

 neighbourhood, 22, 23 — population of several missions, 23 — 

 number of cattle belonging to them, 24 — unhealthy state of 

 Alta Gracia, 24, 25 — notice of the mission of San Felix, 26 

 — and of San Miguel, ibid, — causes of its unhealthines, 27— 



