INDEX, 447 



Suicide (religious) instances of, 03. 



Sulphate of magnesia, experiments on, 407, 408. 



Sulphovinate of barytes, how procured, 397. 



Sulphovinous Acid, how procured, 396 — its properties, 397, 398. 



Sulphuric Acid, action of, on animal substances, 392-395 — ^its 

 action on alcohol, and the new acids thereby formed, 39,5-399, 



Swainson (William, Esq.) description of two new birds of the 

 genus pteroglossus, 266, 267, 268. 



Swayne (Rev. G.) on the manufacture of British opium, 69 — 

 instructions for the culture of the poppies, 70 — and collecting 

 their juice,71 — on the quantities of opium, produced per acre, 

 74, 15 — cautions relative to the preparation of opium, 76-80. 



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Taddie (Dr.) researches of, on the gluten of wheat, 399-402, 

 Test for copper and iron, 408. 



Transmutation of metals into gold, notices of supposed in- 

 stances of, 232-235. 

 Trigonometrical Surveys, notice of, 389. 

 Tumeremo (Capucl^in mission of) notice of, 8, 9. 

 Tupuquen (Capuchin mission of) notice of, 10. 



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University of Bonne, notice of, 211, 212 — of Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge, present state of, 428. 

 Upata (Capuchin mission of) notice of, 12. 

 Urate of ammonia, notice of calculi of, 405. 

 Urine, pink sediments of, accounted for, 185. 



Variation of the compass, observations on, during the late 

 voyage of discovery to the North Pole, 81-106. 



Venus, table of the lunar distances of the planet, 168-170; 

 383-387 — remarks on the statue of, 301. 



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War-dance of the Caraibs described, 19. 



Water, force of a jet of, 171-173 — simple mode of purifying, 186. 



Webb (Captain W. S.) journey of, in Thibet, 61 — legend of Ke- 

 dar-Nat'h, a reputed holy place among the Hindus, 62 — in- 

 stances of religious suicide there, 63 — affected by the bis ki 

 huwa, or poisonous air, 65 — approaches the frontiers of Chi- 

 nese 'I'artary, in the garb of a trader, 66 — account of his mer- 

 cantile adventure, 67, 68 — notice of the town of Daba, 69 — 

 barometrical observations, ibid. 



