i: 471 2 



INDEX TO VOL. XLVI. 



Achromatic glasses. On, 12a 



Acid, Cilric. Parkes on, 'i8, 100; (..i- 

 alic, a potent poison, C9 ; pns.nc and 

 ihydzii, 363; excess of, affects soiu- 

 bility of salts, 419; action of, on 

 liyper-oxyiiiuriates, 4'-!(i ; murtalir, 

 what ? 429 ; new vegetable, 4:53 

 Acidity deptnds not on any peculiar 

 elemeniary substance, 4'J9 



Africa. Travels in, 74; gold of, SO'2 

 AJjinily. On chemical, 377 



ApiioUure. Useful hints On, G9 



Aikins Chemical and Meteorological 

 Dictionary, ''<~iG 



ALbcmaile. ' (The Earl of,) on wire- 

 worm, 69 

 Analysis oi hilUr, 30; lurd, 32; mar- 

 rotv, 33. 34; gie/ise, 34 ; rtlive uil, 35 ; 

 suet, 37, 1^0; Pitcaithly and Dun- 

 blane waters, 2G3 

 Anateiiiy, cuinparaiiie, of animal and 

 vegetable, 4G, 81 

 ^Arches. On the principles of, ;24I 

 Alir.osphoe. EfTect of tbunder-Tods 

 on, 232, 233 

 Atovnc ihvory. Wollaston on, 3o'o ; 

 Dalton on, 377 ; Eerztlius on, .iKl 

 A^ule. On composition of, 230 

 Ballviins. On directing the courseof,321 

 Banks (Sir J.) speech at Royal Society, 

 4G7 

 i?«r/ort on meteoric stones, 154 

 Beiims. On stiffness of. 15, 191 

 Berzeliiis on chemical affinity, 381 

 Bii,t on light, 297, 360 

 Builen: On Woolf's. 43,464 

 Bouks, 68,145,280,312,375,471 

 Borax united with carbon, 72 

 Botany, 4S, 81 

 Bi'acoiinol on fat substances, 29 

 Brain. On organs of, 9, 68, 398 

 Bifics/fr on light, 353 

 BurchM the traveller, 74 

 Buller. Composed of oil and suet, 31 

 Gary's Mettorolugical Tables, 80, 160, 

 240, 320, 400, 473 

 Calculus found in a tumour, 151 

 Caloric, on diffusion of, 167 

 Carlisle on vascular, &c.- substances, 3 

 Cast iron. Improved, 318 

 Chalk, an antidote for poison of oxalic 

 acid, 70 

 Chaptal on encaustic painting, 21 



Chemical pluluscphy. Walker's, 20?, 

 327, .43U 

 Childre/i's large Voltaic battery, 409 

 CIdiirule (if burijics. Explosion of, 72 ; 

 on preparation of, 73 



Chliiruie combined with oxygen, 150 

 Chlorine. Van Mons on, 314 



Coal. On localities of, 465 



Coal-mines. Accidents in, 14; on 

 ventilating, 61 ; safe-lamps for, 448, 

 458, 466, 469 

 Clanny's safe-lamp, 458, 465 



Compass, rejleclmi;. Captain Rater's 

 New, 7 



Ciixe on crystallization, 3D0 



6Va7/e on light, 195 



Cianioigy, 9, 68, 39S 



Crosse on Nelis's electrical exper. 161 

 Cnisse's ejper. on mercury with Vol- 

 taic battery, 421 

 C:yslaliizati;H. On, .'389, 390 

 Curcuma. On yellow tincture of, l.'JO 

 Daniel on crystallization, 389 

 Dallo/i's atomic theory, 377 

 i)'/-/)tei'5 method of extracting gelatine 

 from bones, 17 

 Davy (Sir H.) on iodine, 345; safe- 

 lantern of, 387,448; on hyperoxy- 

 mnriates, 426 ; on lire-damp and 

 safe-lamp, 444 

 De Claubry on inuline, 292 

 De Luc. Reply to, 13 

 De Movtfi.i t on gold of Africa, 302 

 De Neliss electrical exper. 161 

 Diauionds. Estimate of the large known, 

 70 

 Diinovan (M.) on a new vegetable 

 acid, 433 

 Donovan's reply to De Luc, 13; ou 

 experiments of,, ■iOl 

 Diuks' grease. On, 34 

 Elasticity i>J fluids. On, 416 

 Electric cluck. Ronalds on, 203 

 EUclrieily. Electric column, 11 ; Do- 

 novan's second reply to De Luc, 13 ; 

 Van Mons on, 71 ; De Nelis's exper. 

 161, 259; fractures of jars, 205; 

 Walker on, 209, 327, 430 r Singer 

 on, 161, 959; Franklin's theory, 

 40 , ; Children's Voltaic battery, 409 ; 

 exper. on Foltuic, 421 

 Br auslic painting of the ancients, 21 

 Evans on balloons, 3/ 1 



