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INDEX to VOL. XXVI. 
ACETIC ether. On, 85, 86 
Acid, acetic. On, 85, 86, she 
Acid fumigations. On, 71,8 
Acids. Action of, on fat, 7 
Agricultural patent, 
Agriculture, Smithfield Club,” 
291 
Air-pump. Improved, 38 
Aliurnous vessels of trees. On, 
120 
Alcohol. Action of, on fat, 78 
Alembics. On the form of, 8 
Amsterdam, Agricultural Soctety 
of, 99 
Analysis of ipecacuanha, 14; of 
coffee, 175 of asparagus, 33, 
11S; 289; ; of native cinnabar, 
146; of seeds of lyeopodium, 
188; of turquoise, - 220 
Animal fat, On, 72, 105 
Antifriction rollers. Patent, 191 
Antiquaries. Society of, 181, 269, 
; 364 
Anis destroy weevils, gl 
Arrago on affinities of bodies for 
light, 151,292 
Asparagus. On,73, 116, 289,373 
mae omy. A prize question, 89 ; 
history of, 237, 3473 preces- 
sion of equinoxes, 269; co- 
met, 373 
Austrian literature, igo 
Balances, compensation, On, 133 
Barrows. Opening of, 182 
Beauvois on mushrooms, 272 
Bees. A prize question, go 
Bell's patent, 287 
Berlin. Academy of, 89 
Bernoulli’s time-keepers. On, 47 
Biography, 353 
Biot on affinities of bodies for 
light, 151, 292 
Blind, Educationiof the, —_g2 
Boats for canals, On, 219 
Bohemian Royal Society, 188 
Bonefos on fumigation, 71 
Books. New, 93, 171, 176, 186, 
190, 238, 264, 272, 329: pa- 
tent for binding, 287 
Boots. Varnish for, 
Botany. New books on, 184 
Bowman's patent, Ig! 
Boyd:i] on the word Burgh,” 
182 
Bramah’s patent for printing, 95 
Buchanan on canal boats, 219 
Burgh, Meaning of the word, 
182 
Capam’s patent, 95 
Canal boats. On, 219 
Capillary tubes, Notice on, 24% 
Card-making. Patent for, 191 
Carey’s meteorological tables, 96, 
192, 288, 375 
Carriages. Patent, 9+ 
Caspian Sea. On the, 183 
Ceylon, Mineralogy of, 169 
Chabert the navigator, Death 
of, 35 
Charcoal. Antiseptic power of, 
92 
Chronometers. Le Roy on, 40, 
1299), 493 
Cinnabar, native. On, 146 
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