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INDEX, 



Kast Ini'xi. Degree of meridian 



in, 92 



Elliptic. Obliquity cf, 210 



Eggi. Curious exper. on, 264 



ELmenis of Sc icnce and A't ; 



Im'non's ; a new edition, qo 



Er.^ra'v'ing on ilona. Steatites 



used, 83 



E.her. On Sir Isaac Newton's, 



Expansion or cast iron, 1 



Famentati n. Instraciiors for, 



111,316,318 



Fever. Typhus, to cure, 71 : 



yellow, to cure, 100 



Fira, On exringuishinp, 286 

 Fish. A new genus, 36: d.ad, 



absorb oxygen, 260 



FlUs absorb oxygen, 259 



Fossils. Singular, 93,187,375 

 Friction. On, 347 ; to diminish, 



in clocks, 30 , 



Fulton's submarine experiments, 



62 



Fnmigafion powder for hospitals, 



&C., 74; for cowhouses, 



3'4 

 Furnaces, Instructions respect- 

 ing, 318 



Cahani.m. Experiments on a 

 hanged criminal, 90 ; on rab- 

 bits suffoc;tt;d in water, 131 ; 

 in sulphurated hydrogen and 

 carbonic acid gas, 153 ; on a 

 man decapitated, 125; on an- 

 other, 137 ; compared with 

 Newton's ether, 155; inqui- 

 ries respecting, i 70 ; noticed 

 in the year 17CO, 285; dif- 

 ference between it and elec- 

 tricity, 358; velocity of the 

 fluid, 374 



Gardiner on the aiamal aecrtomy. 



Note from, 2S9 



Gardiiii. Oa Galvanism, 286 

 Cases, influence of, on vegeta- 



t)on, 70 ; experiments on ani- 



mal substances in dffferenf, 



2^8; sulphurized and phos- 



phorized, 352 



GcoJJrny on a new genus of hsh. 



Geography . Improvement in, 



191 

 Geology of South America, i6, 



172; of Europe, 3 1 ; singular 



fossil. 93, 187, 37J 



Giants. Bliir on, 355 



Class. Various kinds produced, 

 290 

 Cow. To cure, 114 



Greek fire. Manuscript on, 



found, 283 



Griiidel on prussiate of iron and 



prussic acid, 1 51 



Hadleys sextant. Improved, 



123 

 Jhdl' s expanding crane, 270 

 HiiUisman on dyeing, 340 



Hellebore employed to poison 



arrows, 163 



Hermbstadt on light and colours, 



201 



Herring fishery, 12 



Highland Society of S.ot/aid on 



curing herrings, 25 



H.jllnr.d. Of barrelling herrings 



in, 16 



Horn of extraordinary size, 283 

 Hoineman the traveller. News 



of, 286 



Huniboldt on South American 



geology, 26, 172 ; accounts 



from, 189 



Hydr graphy. Clarke's system 



of, 85; observations On, 3,0 



Ichthyology, 36 



Iniisat^s School of Arts ; anew 

 edition, 90 



Imperial Academy, Pctershurgh, 



iiiz 

 Infiammations, spontaneous. On, 



346 



Iron, use of, in soils, 8 1 



Jones on speclaclcs, 65, 2' 3 



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