INDEX 
Fir. Products from, 360 
Firminger on the orbits of the new 
planets, 131 
Fluer-spar. Analysed, 258 
Forster on De Luc’s electric column, 
197, 424 
Frankincense analysed, 38 
Freexing accelerated, 78 
French National Instilufe, 154 
Friction. On heat produced by, 56 
Fetus, singular, 464 
Galvanic pile. On the power of, 154 
Gases. Musical sounds of, 3 
Gaseous combinations. Oxymuriatic 
gas and oxygen, 153; hydrogen 
and carbon, ___.. <9 i359 
Gas light. Cook’s process, \332 
Geology-156,161,362,367,392,440,465 
Germans. Literary state of,.... 148 
German Mineralogical Nomenclature, 
Greathead’s life-boat, 461 
Greek observations enecliptic,, .., 11 
Hassel’s aquatinta process, +... 297 
Haiiy’s Nomenclature. On, 45 —Sy- 
stem, Bs iqaht® 
Hawkes's patent organ, @&c,.., Fable of 
beats for, 321; specification of pa- 
tent for, Se 
Heat produced by friction or com- 
pression, 56 
Heat, animal. On generation of, 444 
Hernia. Case of, 214; fatal case of, 
. 458 
Herschel\ on radiant caloric, 73;, on 
_ nebulez, 465 
Hill on electricity, . 80 
Hills in Derbyshire, 161 
Intestines. On wounds in, 391 
Jonian academy, 316 
Jordan on light, 311 
Kirwan on mineral surveys, 8 
Aircher’s burning mirror, 176 
Amight on the parts of trees that first 
decay,.59; onthe radicles of plants, 
Oo x13 tO8 
Koumiss of the Calmucks. ‘On; 6 
Laloratory, portable, 244 
Laplace on obliquity of ecliptic) 11 
Latitude, to ascertain by stars, 81, 187 
Learned sucielies, 78, 152, 233, 310, 
f 316,391, 398, 464 
Lee's thrashing mill, 323 
Leslie on radiant caloric, 
72 
Lesucur on meduse, 374 
d.ever, Property of the, 436 
Light. Jordan on, S11 
475 
Light; gas, Cook’s process, 332 
Lime, production of in animals, $72 
Liston’spatent musicalinstruments,325 
Loeschman’s patent musical instru. 
ments, $26 
Luminous animals. On, 24, 93,104, 374 
-Lussac on precipitation of metals by 
acids, 200 
Macartney on luminous animals, 24, 
; 93 
Mallison’s Seaman’s Friend, 461 
Manby’s inventions for saving ship- 
wrecked mariners, 456 
Mariners. ‘On saving the lives of, 455 
Mechanics, a national science, 122 
Meduse. Particulars respecting, 24, 
re ) div DomtO: 935104, $74 
Merrick’s rejoinderto Smyth on tun- 
ang, 111; exper.on tuning, 358 
Metals: Precipitation of by acids, 200; 
¢ombinations of with oxymuriatic 
gas and alaties, 98°" 401 
Meteoric stones 8 eo. 236 
Meteorology, 159, 160, 240, 18, 400, 
473 
Mineralogical systems. On, 39 
Mineralogy a national science, 122 
Mineral surveys. Proposed, 8 
Mines. Derbyshire, 106 
Mitchill’s’ account of Schooley’s 
Mountain, 203 
Mountains. On the strata of, 3675 
stratification of, 440 
Muriate of mercury. New process to 
prepare, 154 
Murray's chemistry, €9 
Music. Sounds from the gases, 33 
tuning keyed instruments, 111, 
185; grand improvement in har- 
mony of instruments, 273; table 
of beats on Mr. Hawkes’s instru- 
ments, 321; specification of Mr, 
Hawkes’s © patent, | $25. — Mr. 
Loeschman’s, $26.— Mr. Liston’s, 
_ $28; exper. on tuning, $58 
Musk odour, to produce, 432 
Myrrh analysed, 347 
Nelule, Herschel on, 465 
Nervous affections cured, 7 
New Berlin university, S14 
Nitro-muriatic acid, Hints respecting, 
atl fe 67 
ow 
Nomenclature, chemical. On, 
Obliquity of ecliptic. Diminution of, 
1k 
Ox-gall, to concentrate for painters, 
&c, 301 
Oxygen, Combinations of, with me- 
tals and alkalies, 401 
