378 INDEX. 



Medical notice, 287. 



jMerat'Guillat (C.) analyfis of human and animal bones, 13 tj 



Mercurial air-holder, defcription of Mr. Clayfield's, 148. 



Mercury, on Mr. Howzrdh fulminating, I7, 122. 



Meteorological retnaris, 353. 



Meteorology, 287. 



Moon, influence of the, on the atmofphere, 35J. 



Moon's motion, prize queftion on the, 18]. 



Mom, r>r. Van, on obtaining tartarous acid, 46. 



■ , on the pnnciples of fixed alkalies, 77. 



Mons, T. B. y-an, on preparing muriatic ether, 48. 

 Moon's moti-,n, Laplace on the, 1S5. 



Moyes, (Dr.) experiments with Volta's Galvanic pile, 347. 

 Mur':at of ftlver obtained in feme Galvanic experiments, 342, 

 Muriai offoda, decompofed by Volta's Galvanic pile, 342, 348, 

 Muriatic acid, on the bafe of the, 89, 211, 332, 367. 



, ., concenti-ated, a folvent for gold, 180. 



Muriatic acid gas, effefts of eledlricity on, z\z, 332. 



, ether, method of preparing, 48. 



Mujhetf Mr. D. on the manufafture of pig iron, 35. 



Natural hiflory, defcription of the verfp.ertilio plicatas, 145, 



. , notices refpefting, 369, 



Neiv publications, 81, 163, 362, 363. 

 J^fw/o7z'5 (Sir Ifaac) theory of light oppofed, 3S3. 

 Nicholfon, experiments in Galvanic eleftricity by, 337, 

 fjitrat of magnefia Ae.com'poit^ by VoUa's pile, 343, 



m .^/wr decompofed by Volta's pile, 343. 



Nitric acid has no aftion on filver, copper, tin, 83. 



■ — , antifyphilitic virtues of, afcertained, 96. 



Nitrous acid produced in Galvanic experiments, 339, 342, &c, 



Oils, on tlie method oF obtaining certain aromatic, S8. 

 Oxalic acid, to cxtraft from fpirit of wine, 136. 

 Oxygen, on the influence of in germination, 157. 



Pallas (ProfefToi), on diftafes occafioned by infefts, 138, 239, 



Parfn'ps, experiments to obtain fugar from, 2 10. 



Pajle or do;igh, a machine for kneading, 261. 



P'lg-iron, the hiftory of the manufafture of, 35. 



Peal and turf, propofal to e;nploy in blaft furnaces, 43. 



Poifon, Amoureux on that of ants, 152. 



Potjjh found in minerals, 25' 5, 256, 259. 



Poiafj, a compound of hydrogen and lime, 367. 



Prieur, C. A. on the evening and morning dew, 114. 



piifmitic colouii. Dr. Herfchcl'j experiments on, 311. 



Prize quejlivns, I J "J, 267. 



Puli'isjlcrcoreus, analyfis of, 260. 



Pumice fione, ;.nalyfis of, 256, 258. 



Purple cnome^ to prepare, 9. 



Pyroxene of Etnj, analyfis of, 2 J4. 



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