CONTENTS 



O F T HE 



SIXTH VOLUME. 



A NEW and expeditious Procefs for rendering Platina 

 malleable. By Mr. RiCHARD Knight, Member of 

 the Brittf/j Mineralogical Society - ^^g^ I 



Refleaions on PruJJlats. By I. M. Haussmann 4 



Account of a fimple and effeBual Preparation of Seed-Corn, 

 By Mr. John Wagstaffe, of Nor%vich - 10 



On the Dtjiillation of ardent Spirit from Carrots. By Dr, 

 Rv-STETi and Mr. HoB.'NBY, of York - 1% 



Some Account of the Elajlic-Gum Vine of Prince of Wales's 

 Ifland, and of Experiments made on the milky Juice which 

 it produces ; with Hints refpeSiing the ufefd Purpofes to 

 which it may be applied. By James Howison, Efq, 14 



Experiments and Obfervations on Shell and Bone. By 

 Charles Hatchett, JS/y. F.i?.S. - 21, 355 



Hijlory of AJlronomy for the Year 1799. By Jeromb 

 Lalande. Read at the Lyceum on the %6th of December. 



30, 104 



Defcription of a fingular Phenomenon in a Thunder-Cloud. 



By L. C LiCHTENBERG - - 4I 



Obfervations on the Elk. By the late E. H. Smith, Phy- 

 Jician _ - - - - 42 



Extras, from a Letter of Mr. J. Turner to Dr. Pear- 

 son, on the PraSiice of the Faccine Inoculatio7i among 

 Country -People - - - - 49 



ExtraB of a Memoir on Elajlicity. 5y C. Barruel ^L 



On the Efficacy of Yejl in the Cure of thofe Difeafes known 

 by tie Name of Putrid - - - 5^ 



On the various EffeBs produced by the Nature, Compreffion, 

 and yAoctty of the Air ufed in the Blajl- Furnace. By Mr. 

 David Musket, of the Clyde Iron-Works 60,113 



Some Remarks on the Scotch Dijiillery, ' and a Defcription of 

 an improved Still, which may be charged and run off Se- 

 venfy-!zuo Times in Twenty -four Hours -_ 70 



Obfervations on Spiders, and their fuppofed Poifon. By 



M., Amohev^ jun. M.D. - - 74j ^^^2 



A 3 Some 



