INDEX. 



475 



Gas from oil and coal, experiments on, 

 402, 424 

 Gases, motion of, through pipes, 396; 

 condensed into liquids, 316 



Geological section of Hunstanton Cliff, 

 81 

 Gervais' ( Mad. ) apparatus for vinous fer- 

 mentation, _ 34 

 Girard on the resistance of cast-iron, &c. 

 270 

 Globes, on the, 42 i 

 Grain, &c. preservation of, from mice, 

 144 

 Greatheed (Rev. S.) on the tin of the 

 ancients, 109 

 Great Wliemside, altitude of, 209 

 Groombriilge (S.) on the opposition of 

 Vesta, 249 ; tables of Vesta, 375 ; 

 tables of the four minor planets, 460 

 Hawkins (J.) on the nomenclature of 

 Cornish rocks, 102 

 Heat and pressure, action of, on water, 

 58 ; on sulphuric acid, ib. ; rectified 

 oil of petroleum, ib. 

 Herapath (Wm.) on opake crystallized 

 carbon, 423 ; on oil and coal gas, 424 

 HiU (P.) on the Omithorhynchus para- 

 doxus, 8 

 Hunstanton Cliff, Norfolk, section of, 81 

 Button (Dr, Charles), death of, 70 

 Hutton (G. F.) on tlie trial of Chrono- 

 meters at Greenwich, 177 

 Jenner (Dr.), death of, 70 

 Juno, apparent place of, at the ensuing 

 opposition, 461 

 India, collection of natural history from, 

 396 

 IngUs (G.) on pot- and pearl-ashes, 

 265 

 Institution, new, 144 

 iTistruments, astronomical, flexure of, 

 10 

 /ridt?ui, on three species of, 112 

 Iron, cast, crystallization of, 22, 83 

 Kirbi/ (Rev.'W.) on the nutriment of 

 animals from mineral substances, 3 

 Lava, analysis of, 73 

 Lead (sheet), Chinese, 145 

 Lectures, Taylor's (J.), on Metallurgy, 

 283, 368, 448 

 Life, theory of, M. Bichat's, 168 

 London-bridge, Telford's Report on, 

 317 

 Magnetic pile, variation of, 165 

 Magnetic power of the poles, 252 

 Magnetism and caloric, experiments on, 

 ^ 207 

 Maskelune's (Dr.) 36 stars, R. A. of, 

 53, 197, 245, 363, 434 

 Measure, unit of, 266 

 Metalhtrgu, Mr, J. Taylor's Lectures on, 

 283, 368, 448 



Meteorological summaries for 1822, 74, 

 77, 78, 148, 150, 151 ; table, 473 

 Meteorology, 75, 80, 160, 240, 320, 399, 

 400 

 Mineral substances affording nutriment 

 to animals, 3 



Minerals, new fluid in, 395 



Mines, temperature of, 347, 436 



Moon, maps of the, 125 



Moseley (W. M ) on Groombridge's ta- 

 bles of Vesta, 375 

 Murray (John) on potassium in Eudio- 

 metry, 53 ; Barometer for measuring 

 altitudes, 61 ; Experiments on caloric 

 and magnetism, 207 ; on fermenta- 

 tion, 208 ; phanomenon in chemical 

 action, 394 

 Musket (D.) on the crystallization of 

 cast>-iron, 22, 83 



yames, common European, of the va- 

 rieties of the cabbage, 1 95 

 Natural history, collection of, from In- 

 dia, 396 

 Natural History Society of Auvergne, 318 

 Navigation, aerial, 6 

 Needle, magnetic, effect of cold on, 70 

 Newton on timber-measurement, 206 

 North- West expedition, 73 

 Nutation, &c. new tables of, 366 

 OU-gas in France, 147 ; phenomena in 

 making, ^^ 

 Opposition, ensuing, places of the four 

 minor planets, 459 

 Organic life, ^^^ 

 Ornithorynchus paradoxus, its venomous 

 spur, &c. _ 8 

 Pallas, apparent place of, at the ensuing 

 opposition, 460 

 Paper, electricity excited in, 330 

 ParaseleruE seen at Gosport, 399 

 Parry's (Capt.) expedition, 142, 390 

 Patents, new, 79, 159, 239, 319, 398,472 

 Pearl-ashes, ^^^ 

 Perkins's steam-engine, 313 

 Petroleum, oil of, action of heat and 

 pressure on, ■SS 

 Planet Vtsla, orbit of, 161 

 Planets, four minor, places of, at their 

 opposition, 459 

 Pole, magnetic, causes of the variation 

 of, 1^5 

 Poles, magnetic power of, 252 

 Polygons, on a property of, 162 

 Pot-ashes, . . ^^^ 

 Potassium, eudiometric application of, 

 53 

 Pot- and pearl-ashes in bleaching super- 

 seded, 265 

 Precestion, &c. new tables of, 366 

 Rain-gauges, comparison of, 321 

 Rejraction, terrestrial, 209 



