CONTENTS 



O P T H E 



FIFTEENTH VOLUME. 



T. UN Indian Dogs. By Dr. Barton, of Philadelphia 



Page I 



II. An Account of a neiv Method of fupplying Diving-bells 

 with frefh Air. By Robert HEALy, A.B g 



III. On Painting. Bj Mr. E. Dayes, Painter iz 



IV. E.vperi?nents on the Coloriring and Mordant Property of 

 the Oxide of Molybdena. By M. D. Jaeger i^ 



V. Rem n-h on the prefent State of Aerojlation. Bj Mr, 

 G. J. Wright - - - 19 



VI. A Sketch of the Geography of Cochin China ;■ fofite Par-^ 

 iiculars relative to the Manners, ■Cujlcms, and ifijlory of • 

 the Inhabitants ; and a fe%v Conjiderations on the Import-- 

 ance of forming an: Efldbji/Jjme7it in that Country • ' 33' 



VII. Report prefented to the Clafs of the Exatl Scie^c£%^j 

 the Academy of Turin, \^th Auguft 1802, in regard to- 

 the Galvanic Experiments made by C. Vassali-Eandi, 

 GiULio, and Rossi, on the loth and M^th' of the 



fame Month, on the Head and Trunk of three Men a fjjort 

 Time after their Decapitation. J3>'C. GiULlo ' 38' 



VIII. A Review of fame Jlxperiments which have been fiM^^, 

 pofed to difprove the Materiality of Heat. By WiLLlAM 

 Henry - ' - ' _ 4>I 



IX. Report made to the Philofophicai and Mathematical 

 Clafs of the French National Inflitute in tFe Sitting of Au- 

 gujl 18, entitled A Tour to Upper Egypt above the Cata- 

 rafts of Sienne, zuith Obfervations on the 'different Kinds 

 of Senna ufedin Commerce. By G. Dessessartz and' ' 

 Ventenat . - - - 55' 



X. Biographical AccountofMATTflEW,^OVLTo-s, E/q. 59 



XI. On the Effeds of Elder in preferving Plants from Infctls 

 and Flies. By M. Christoi'He Gullet 6'^ 



XII. Reply to a Charge of Pla^iarifm, brought by Mr. 

 He n r y Cl a r ic e againjl VV. Dickson, LL. D. Com- 

 municated in a letter from the latter to Mr. Tilloch 65 



XIII. A general View of the Coal Mines worked in Francfy 

 of their different Products, and the Means of circulating 

 them. By C. Lepebvrk, Member of the Council of 

 Mines, of the Philomatic Society, <^c. &c. - 70 



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