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INDEX. 



Rnots. On the direction and growth 



of, 420 



Rnrjal Society, 77, 394, 464 



Sadler on smelting of lead, 278, 371 

 Sadtei's aerial voyages, 231 , 233 



Sciilplures, Greek, 208, 230 254 



Smith's method of raising a loaded 



cart when the horse has fallen, 117 

 Smith's reports on Nailsea collieries, 

 321 

 Smilhsoji on zeolite, 80 



Societies, Learned, 77, 30G, 394, 464 

 Soda, to obtain from innrintr nf, 27 

 Solar eclipse nf Thuies. On the, 357 

 Steam, on heating buildings by, 76 

 Sulphate of iron, decomposition of, 



by animal matter, 297 



SuluLur of Muntserrat, account of, 



183 



Tannin combined with animal matter 

 in vegetables, 100 



Ta7ini7ig. Oak leaves answer for, 79' 

 Tarry on writing-ink, 34 



Taylor on ventilation, 120 



Tkeiiard on vegetable and animal ana- 

 lysis, eo 



Tobacco, experiment with infusion of, 



91 ; empvren'natic oilof, 171 



Trinidad, pixh lakein, 151 



Upas pois'ii. Ou, 174 



Ure on the comet, 310 



Faccinatinn. On origin of, 462 



Faults. Theories of, 387, 409 



VatKjuelin on vegc-to-animal matter, 

 100; on concentrated sulphuric 

 acid, 46S 



Vegetable poisons. On, 85 



Fei^e.table wax. Brande on, 420 



Fenlilalion of mines, ice. 120 



Felocily o/machmen/, to ascertain, 42 

 Finotis fermenlalinn. Of the, 223, 246 

 Folcanic island, A new, 229 



Walker's improved micrometer, 127 

 fFaliiiit shell, green. Analysis of, 44T 

 IFiire on diseases of the eye, 298, '339 

 fFiix, vfgetaUe. Brande on, 4£9 



TFlnte lead. Fatal effects of, 94 



IFo/id, on cultivation and manufac- 

 ture of, 325 

 IF'illaslon on diabetic blood, 18 

 Wdiirara. Poison for arrows, 170 

 Zeoltte, Smithson on, 8* 





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