473 Index. 



Linn»an SticiHv, meetin<;s of, 70, 143, 



228, 308, S90, 453— office-bearers, 



in, 455. 

 Liqvii.-lamber styrariflua, what, 229. 

 Liquor Ainnii of a cow, examined, 416. 

 Lockait, James, I>q. on imaginary cube 



roots, 315 - his opinion, opposed, 394. 



— vindicated, 439. 

 Loiigmire, Mr .T<i!i.i B. e«say on rents, 



by, 81, 275 — n the method of d.-tect- 



iilS carbureted hydrogen gas in coal 



mines, 332. 



M. 



Montague George, Esq. essay on sponges 

 by, i.S7. 



I 



Macculloch, Dr. on the liill of Kin- 

 ■nonl, 143 — on quartz rocks, 147, 31 1 

 — on the Cruachan, 1 51 — on filcn Til t, 

 309 — iin certain products obtained in 

 the distillation of wood, 444 — on the 

 granite torrs in Cornwall, 446— re- 

 marks on the vitrified forts of Scot- 

 land, by, 452 — on the sublimation of 

 silica, 432. 



Mackenzie. Charles, Esq. on the mi- 

 neralogy of the Ochil Hills, 134. 



Macknisht, Dr. description of Tinto, 

 bv, 137. 



Magnesia, in human bones, 41 — carbo- 

 , nate of, from India, 42. 



Masnet, variation in high latitudes, 368. 



Magnetic needle, dip, &c. of, in the 

 north Atlantic, 76. 



Magnctical experiments, by Col. Beau- 

 foy, 63, 131, 216, 289,364, 399,443. 



Malacolite, analyzed, 51. 



Wan, researches on the pliysical history 

 of. 3:9. 



Isle of, mineralogical account ot, 



445. 



Manganese, separating of from iron, 23 

 — red siliceous, 48. 



Marcel de Serres, on the dorsal vessel 

 of insects, 191, 369. 



Mathematical problem for solution, i3. 



Medical Society of Edinburgh request 

 information " respecting interesting 

 facts and experts, in medicine, 318. 



Meerien, L. A. Von, experiments on 

 chlorine, by, 13. 



Mercury, how detected in solution, 22 

 — as a poison, 383. 



Meteor, remarkable, described, 235. 



Meteorological journal during a Green- 

 land vovage, 138. 



_ZL-.:J_ table, 79, 159, 239, 319, 



on the tests of muriatic 



399, 473. 



Mever. M. 

 ae d, 22. 



Micrs, Mr. experiments by, to decora- 

 pose azote, 14. 



Milk, salts in, 41— sugar of, composi- 

 tion of, 266. 



Mineralogy, new svsfein of, proposed 

 bv Berzelius, 302. 



Minium, supposed, 48. 



Missouri, river, ticcount of, ^63. 



Mitchell, Dr. fish dccribed by, 2<«. 



; 



" / » 



iMu.'ons acid, composition of, 179. 



Muriatic acid, tests of, 22 — as a poi-- 

 son, 385. 



Murrav , Mr. observations on t.anning, 

 by, 112. 



N. 



Nasse, M. singular formntion of acetic 

 acid, by, 28. 



New Holland, joarney into the interior 

 of, 78, 



Newspapers published in North Ame- 

 rica, 233. 



Nickel, expeiiments on, 61. 



Nicol, Mr. discovery of flexible lime, 

 by, 71. 



Nitiicacid, as a poison, 385. 



Nitrous oxide, how obtained pwre, 17. 



Northumberland, geology of, 144, U7. 



Notonectes, claisification of, 390. 



O. 



Oberraenning, mineral water of, ana- 

 lyzed, 34. 



Ociiil Hills, mineralogy of, 134. 



Oersted, M. speculations of respecting 

 affinity, 5. 



Orfila, M. P. treatise on poisons, 382. 



Organic bodies, composition of, 93, 174. 



Orthoceratiles of Scotland, memoir on, 

 199. 



Oiyctognosy, discoveries in, 42. 



0.\ala!es, analysis of, 29 — table of their 

 composition, 189. 



Oxalic acid, composition of, 97, 18S. 



Oxiode, account of, 389. 



Oxygen in air contained in sea water at 

 diHereut depths, 40. 



P. 



Palladium, oxide of, analyzed, 19— 

 how reduced, 21. 



Paper, quantity made in America, 233. 



Parkinson, Mr. on hippurites, 452. 



Piiste, Chinese, how formed, 154. 



Patents, list of, 78, 153, 238, 397, 471. 



Pearl spar, analysis of, 138. 



Pentland hills, mineralogy of, 138. 



PfalT, Professor, his method of pro- 

 curing nitrous oxide, 17 — his method 

 of detecting mercury in solution, 22 



on the separation of manganese 



from iron, 23. 



Philips, Mr. R. animadversions by, on 

 Mr. Hume, ■zd^. 



, Or. Watson, on the motion of 



the heart of animals', 227. 



^ Mr. >V., on green uran mica, 



311 — on the veins of Cornwall, 449 

 Hr. on the remains of a fcrtus 



fi>nnd in the abdomen of a child, 454. 



Pho-phuret of ammonia, curious forma- 

 tion of, 152. 



Phosphorus, 15 — as a poison, 3S6. 



Platii.um, method of rendering mal- 

 leubl«, iO-*osi(lej of, analyxcil, 19 



