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Accouiit of the Methods employed in Japan and China to pre • 



pare Soy, with fame Obfervations on the Bean from which 



it is produced. ' By Profeflbr Beckmann page 343 



Comparative View of the expanfvoe Force of the Steam of 



Water and that oj Alcohol. By R. Prony - 345 



Second Memoir on the Metal contained in the Red Lead of 

 Siberia. By Cit. Vauquelin - - 36 1 



Propofalfor a new Hygrometer. ByMr. Hochheimek 367 



Method employed in Spdinfor making the Alci.rrazas, or Vef- 

 fels ttfedtberefdr cooling Water. By Cit. Lasteyrie 371 



On the Principles of Equilibrium, and the Stability of Floating 

 Bodies applied to River- and Canal Boats of different Forms. 

 By Mt. John George English, Teacher of Mathe- 

 matics and Mechanical Philojophy. Communicated by the 

 Author - 393 



New Method of freeing Molaffes from their flarp Tajle, and 

 rendering than fit to he ufed in/lead of Si/gar 398 



D/Jcription and Uje of the Dynanometer, or Injlrument for 

 afcertaining the relative Strength of Men and Animals. 

 Invented by Cit. Regnier - - 399 



Method oj filling up Engraving on Silver with a durable 

 Black Enamel, as ptraEtifed in Perfia and India. Commu- 

 nicated in a Letter from Siberia to Profeffor PALLAS 405 



Different Methods employed in B1 caujlic Painting, according 

 to the Principle followed by the ancient Creek and Roman 

 Painters, difcovered by the Abbe Re at" e no, and fence 

 pratiijed with much Suceefs at Rome. Communicated by 

 Mr. Charles Heathcote Tatha.m, Architecl 405 



Chemical Obfervations on the Epidermis. By J. A. Chap- 

 TAL - 409 



Of a remarkable Cure effected by the Ufe of Carbonic Acid 

 Gas, communicated ;n a Letter to his Excellency Prince 

 Demetrius de Golitzm, Minijlcr of the Imperial Court of 

 Ruffia at the Hague. By M. D. Jan sens of Oofler- 

 hout - 410 



Extract of a Memoir on the Foffil Bones of Quadrupeds. By 

 Cit. Cuvier - - - 413 



Obfervations on the Confituent Parts of Atmofpheric Air. By 

 Count de Morozzo - - 417 



Communication from Dr. Thornton, Leclurer on Medical 

 Botany at Guy's Hofpital, refpecling ajuppofed Lufus Na- 

 tures, now exhibiting in London - - 423 



Scientific Intelligence - - 95,218,336,434 



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