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Index. 



Caldas de Rainha, mineral spring of, 

 analysis of, 31. 



Cambridgeshire, strata of, 70 — geology 

 of, 133. 



Camphor, effect of, on heated platinum 

 wire, 143. 



Carbonate of lime, on the primitive 

 form of, 69. 



Carbonates, composition of certain, SO. 



Carrots yield manna, 39. 



Cetine, 41. 



Chamelion mineral, experiments on, 18. 



Charcoal, metallic, of Dobereiner, ana- 

 lysis of, 13. 



Cbaudet, M., analysis by, of tin, alloyed 

 •with antimony and bismuth, 20. 



Chemistry, improvements in, during 

 1817, 1. 



Cbenopodium olidum, analysis of, 231. 



Chevalier, M., on the analysis of cbeno- 

 podium olidum, 231. 



Chevillot and Edwards, MM., on cha- 

 melion mineral, 18. 



Chevreul, M., on chamelion mineral, 18 

 — on the acidity of peroxides of tung- 

 sten and uranium, 144 — on fatty 

 bodies, 186, 257. 



Chloric acid, new mode of forming, 22. 



Chlorides, combination of, with ammo- 

 nia, 26. 



Chromate of iron in the Ferroe islands, 

 453. 



Clarke, Dr., on the colouring consti- 

 tuent of roses, 126,296 — on thedisco- 

 very of pearl-sinter, 463. 



Clay, plasticity of, ascribed to water, 

 463. 



Cotour of bodies, on the cause of, 146. 



Comets, on the tails of, 227. 



Copper, traces of, in plants, 39. 



Cork, meteorological journal at, 123, 

 431. 



Corn, analysis of, 37 — oils contained in, 

 35. 



Cornwall, new literary institution in, 

 305 — RoyalGeologicalSocietyof,465. 



Corrosive sublimate, new mode of 

 delecting, 8. 



Coulomb, M.C. A., biographical sketch 

 of, 81. 



Cow-tree, milk of, 1 15. 



Cumberland, G., Esq., on encrinital and 

 pentacrinital bodies, near Bristol, 70 

 — on Bristol limestone beds, 70. 



D. 



Dalton, Mr. John, on the combustion of 

 alcohol by a lamp without flame, 245 

 — on the vis viva, 444. 



Daw, Sir If., researches on flame by, 3 

 — obtains lithium, 16 — on the fallacy 

 of the experiments in which water is 

 said to have been formed by the de- 

 composition of chlorine, 450. 



Davy, Dr. J., on the situation of gems in 



Ceylon, 143 — geological description 



of Adam's Peak, by, 143. 

 Delcros, barometrical measurement of 



Jura, by, 355. 

 Dick, T. L., Esq., on the Fotnitainhall 



chalybeate spring, 91. 

 Dinsdale, W. M ,, on the management of 



dung-hills, 464. 

 Dolomieu, M., biographical account of, 



161. 

 Donovan, Mr., on the oxides of mercury, 



67. 

 Durham, geology of, 220. 



Egerane, 31 1. 



Elephant, gases in the intestines of, ana- 

 lyzed, 119. 



Emetin, 36. 



Ether, acid formed by the slow combus- 

 tion of, 22. 



Eudiometer, Volta's, improvement in,' 

 by Gay-Lussac,ll — ditto, by Dr. Ure, 

 381. 



Extractive, Braconnot on, 34. 



Ej e, new ly discovered membrane in, 74. 



Faraday, Mr., on the escape of com- 

 pressed gases, 8 — on sulplmret of 

 phosphorus, 12 — on a supposed new 

 oxide of silver, 25 — on (he formation 

 of fulminating silver, 26 — on the com- 

 bination of the chlorides with ammo- 

 nia, 26, 



Fat, conversion of animal bodies into, 

 41. 



Fatty bodies, on, 186. 



Finch, J., Esq., on somebasalticcoluinns 

 in Staffordshire, containing mesotypc, 

 prrhnite, and barytes, 167. 



Fire-places to steam-boilers, on the 

 construction of, 51. 



Flame, researches on, by Sir H. Davy, 3. 



Flatigergues, ft]., on the tails of comet-, 

 227. 



Fountainhall chalybeate spring, on, 91. 



Fleming, Rev. Dr., on the junction of 

 the fresh water of rivers with the salt 

 of the sea, 384. 



Garlic, 36. 



Gases, time they take to escape through 

 small orifices, 8 — specific gravity of, 

 9 — in the intestines of an elephant 

 analyzed, 1 19. 



Gautier, M., on the pellitory of Spain, 

 229. 



Gay-Lussac, M., hydrogen gas lamp by, 

 5 — analysis by, of the metallic char- 

 coal of Dobereiner, 12 — on alkaline 

 sulphurets, 24 — on the property of 



