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INDEX TO VOL. XL. 



Absorption, organs of, 12s 



Academy of Turin, S96 



Acid. A new vegelaile, 389 



Acorn DtbHe. Waiotell's, 39 



Aerial y^yage. Sadler's, 318 



Aerolites, 315,396 



Africa, travels into the interior, 468 

 Ague, cured by imagination, 238 

 Allan's Dirxdmg Engine, 343, 368 

 Anaiyiis of cuprane and cjpranea, 

 7, 169; native submuriate of dop- 

 per, 8; stannane and stannanea, 

 11; submuriate of tin, 12; super- 

 sulphuret of platina, 30; subsul- 

 phuret of platina, 32, 21 1 ; fer- 

 rane and ferranea, 84; horn lead 

 or plumbane, 86 ; butter of zinc, 

 P6; fuming liquor of arsenic, 88; 

 butter of antimony, 89 ; butter of 

 bismuth, 90; lymph, 113; blood, 

 115; metallic oxides, 169; silica, 

 201 { hydrosulphuret of platina, 

 216; cast iron, 245; platinana, 

 273 ; sulphate of platina, 352 ; 

 potash sulphate of platina, 357 ; 

 soda sulphate of platina, 358 ; am- 

 monia sulphate of platina, 361 

 Ammonia. Combinations of, 380 

 Animal Chemistry, 109,181 



y^.v/im*?! I/. Butter of,88 ; oxides of,44! 

 Antiquities, 238, 395 



Arithmetic. Young Cclburn's attain- 

 ments in, 119 

 Arsenic. Lambe on, 48; Hume on, 

 105, 427; Roget on, 179, 332; 

 Marcet on, 180, 332 ; Brodie on, 

 £81 

 Arsenic and Chlorine combined, 86; 

 a fuming liquor, 87; action on 

 phosphorus, sulphur, resin and 

 oils, 87 

 Arsenicane. What, 88 

 Astrtinnmy. Polar distance cf fixed 

 stars, 55; comets. 61, 3^ 

 Automaton. A sneaking, 317 

 BakeweU's reply to farcy's geological 

 observations, 45 

 Barometer. Walker (R.) on, 136; 

 Walker (E) on, 330 

 Barton on N.American caoutchouc,66 

 Bnizuates. Action of with salts, 253; 

 •femployed to separate iron and 

 manganese from their solutions, 

 263 

 Berzelius on carbonate of lime, 117; 

 conversion of starch into sugar, 

 134, 236 ; attempt to analyse $ilex. 



201 : analysis of cast iron, 245 

 Bismtiih. Oxide of, 442 



Bismuth and Chlorine combined — 

 butter of bismuth, 89; Bismuthane, 

 90 

 Bleaching. On, 190,226 



Blood. Chemical researches on, 1 09, 

 181 

 Bostock on alkali in animal fluids, 

 176; reply to, 321 



Botany, 463 



Brain. Influence of in producing 

 animal heat, 405 



Brande on blood, 109, 181 



Bricks. New method of making, J4 

 Brodie on poisons, 278 



Bicrckhardt's lunar tables, 65 



Caoutchouc discovered in N. Amer. 

 66; in England, 123 



Carbonate of lime. Analysis of, 1 1 7 

 Cart/'s Metereological Tables, 80, 160, 

 240, 32a 400, 473 



Cafsius. Purple powder of, 102 

 Cerium-. Oxide of, 443 



Chavofse's marine transit, 401 



Chlorine, combinations of with me- 

 tals, 4,83, 168, 271 

 Chyle. Composition of, 1 10 

 Coagnlum of blood. On, US 

 Col-alt to purify, 263; oxide of, 443 

 Culburn. Zerah, a child. Arithmeti- 

 cal powers of, 119 

 Copper combined with chlorine, or 

 oxymuratic acid, 5 

 Corn to secure in the field till dry, 18 

 Cupratie. Formation of, 5 ; first ex- 

 amined by Proust, 5 

 Cupriiuea. Formation of, 5 

 Da' y (H.) on sulphurets and phos- 

 phiirets of platina, 27; on African 

 plumbago, 41 ; on comblnationst 

 of platina, 209, 263, 350 

 Davy's (Sir H.) Elements of Chemical 

 Philosophy, 145, 297, 434; on a 

 new fulminating substance, 387 

 Davy (John) on combinations of 

 metals and chlorine, 4, 133, 168; 

 on fluoric acid, 374 

 Definite proportions. Application of, 

 168, 441 

 Dcsmerliers on pneumatic tinder, 

 boxes, 424 

 Dividing engine. On Allan's, 343. 368 

 Dovnv:in on electricity, 60 ; on 

 bleaching, 226 ; on a new vege- 

 table acid, 389 

 Draw-ivelL Asiatic, 220 



