index. 
pouble flowers, on, 395. 
Dulong, M. on oxalic acid, 231. 
Dunblane, mineral water of, analyzed, 
43. 
E. 
Earth-stone, 123. 
Eatable nests analyzed, 57. 
Elasticity of gases, 19. 
Electrical machine, plate, improve- 
ment in, 162. ; 
Electricity, improvements in, during 
1815, 9. 
Electrometer, 10. 
Elk, horns of, on, 389. 
Ellipse in a certain position appears 
circular, 205. 
Emberiza cirlus, on, 389. 
Entomolites, on; 314. 
Epidermis of the foot analyzed, 420— 
of the arm, 422. 
Esmark, Professor, on a new ore of 
tellurium, 136, 
Ether, composition of, 243. 
Euchlorine, explosion of, explained, 
A317. 
Extractive, on, 47. 
Eye, black pigment of, analyzed, 54. 
¥, 
Fat bodies, experiments on, 58. 
Fermentation, explanation of, 398— 
facts relating to, 21. 
Fermenting heat, query respecting, 469. 
Ferrureted chyazic acid, 36. 
Fibrolite, 136. 
Ficus carica, juice of, analyzed, 51. 
Flexible sand-stone, account of, 315. 
Fluor spar, structure of ite crystals, 227. 
Formations, on the cause of, 122. 
Fox, James, Esq. on the weather at 
Plymouth, 267. 
Friction, heat from, 241. 
Fuci, analysis of, 52, 
Fulminating platinum, 468. 
Folmination explained, 450. 
Fungi, on, 395, 
G, 
Galloway, mineralogical observations 
on, $89. 
Galvanic and nervous influence, iden- 
tity of, 323. 
Galvanism, influence of, 161—proposed 
as a telegraph, 162. 
Gases, on the absorption of, 21, 215. 
Gaultier de Claubry, analysis of fuci, 
by, 52. 
Gay-Lussac, M. on cyanogen and hy- 
dro-cyanic acid, 31, 35, 229, 350. 
Geognosy of Britain, sketch of, 64. 
“— Society, meetings of, 136, 
485 
Georgian planet, satellites of, 2. 
German Ocean, on the change in its 
- ‘Jevel, 390. 
Glass, mode of cutting, 237—tears, 
effect of, on light, 5. 
yee comparison of, with albumen, 
Bibs ae 
Gmelin, M. Leopold, analysis of the 
black pigment of the eye, by, 54. 
Gnu, 463. 
Gramina, new classification of, 394, 
Granville, Dr. on a memoir by M. 
oY on the formation of crystals, 
386. 
Greenland, intended publication on, 
239. 
Gregor, Rev. W. analysis of green uran 
mica, by, 63. 
Grierson, Dr. on the mineralogy of 
Galloway, 389. 
Guadaloupe, ancient inhabitants of, 
account of, 135. 
Gunpowder, new mode of making, 84. 
H. 
Hansten, Mr. on the magnetism of the 
earth, 16. 
Harvey, Mr. mathematical theorem de- 
monstrated, by, 475. 
Headach, curious cause of, 320. 
Heat, properties of, as modifying the 
nature of glass, 134—from friction, 
241—radiant, Prevost’s theory of, 
24. 
Herschel, Dr. on the satellites of the 
Georgium Sidus, 2—Mr, on the func- 
tious of exponential quantities, 134— 
mineral analysis, by, 136. 
Hildebrandt, “Professor, on the power 
of the metals to disperse electricity, 9. 
Holder, Dr. H. E. on the effect of the 
juice of the papaw-tree, 359, 
Holmes, Mr. on the pavement of Lon- 
don, 469. 
Home, Sir Everard, physiological 
papers, by, 69—on the mechanism 
of the feet of an East Indian lizzard, 
g28—on specific medicines, 304— 
appendix to his paper on, 458, 
Hoof of the horse analyzed, 425. 
Horns of black cattle analyzed, 423. 
Horny excrescence of a pigeon, 425, 
Hour-glass, on the usual mode of fixing 
at sea, 161. 
Humboldt, Baron Von, travels of, 143 
—analysis of his book on South 
American plants, 373. 
Huron, lake, rocks in, 242. 
Hydro-cyanic acid, 35, 360, 
Hydrogen, experiment on, 30. 
Tiydrophobia, cure of, 396, 
Hygrometer, new, 479. : 
Hygrometrical observations in the At 
lantic, 320. 
