INDEX. 445i 



Quantities of opium produced per acre, 74, 75 — cautions 



relative to the preparation of opium, 76 — 80. 

 OrchidecE, select, from the Cape of Good Hope, described, 



310-311. 

 Ot^keite, state of printing at, 427. 

 Ouachitta, hot-springs of, notice of, 195. 

 Oxalate of potash and manganese, 409. 

 Oxen, use of, in agriculture, 218. 

 Oxford University, number of members of, 428. 



Paris, state of schools at, 212 — state of its population for 

 1818, 213,214. 



Paris (Dr.) Memoir of Mr. Arthur Young, by, 279-309. 



Pastora (Capuchin mission of) notice of, 13 — excursion into 

 its vicinity, 14. 



Perkins (Mr.) his process of engraving upon steel, 125-128. 



Petrarch, copy of an original memorandum by, 215. 



Pharmacy, remarks on the state of, in France, 239-251. 



Philip (Dr. Wilson) note on the experiments of, 197 — his ob- 

 servations on the Rfinrfiting- power of animals, 251-264. 



Phillips's (R. Esq.) observations on the new French Pharmaco- 

 pceia, 239-251. 



Phosphorus, new acid of, 397. 



Phthisis, on the use of prussic acid in, 418-420. 



Piperine, a new vegetable alkali, notice of, 402. 



Plague, remedy for, 198. 



Platinum Leaf, notice of, 411. 



Poppies, on the culture of, 70 — their juice, how to be collected 

 and manufactured into opium, 71-80. 



Population of Paris in 1818, 213, 214. 



Potrero, or breeding farm for horses, in Spanish Guyana, de- 

 scribed, 3. 



Price, (Dr.) an alchymist, notice of, 237. 



Printing in Otaheite, 427. 



Prize Questions: — in meteorology, by the Academy of Dijon, 

 199 — on the variation of the compass, by the Royal Aca- 

 demy of Copenhagen, 425 — on animal magnetism, by the 

 ' Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 425, 426 — literary 

 prize question at Amsterdam, 427. 



Prussian Blue, on the nature of, 179-181. 



Prussic Acid, on the use of, in consumptive cases, 418-420. 



Pteroglossus genus of birds, two new ones described, 266, 267, 

 268. 



Publications (new), select lists of, 220-432. 



Pwedpa (Capuchin mission of ), state of, 16. 



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Rafinesque, (C. S.) description of the silures or cat-fishes of 

 the Ohio, 48-52. 



