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Index, 



N. 



Necrgard, M. T. C. Braun, on the pro- 

 motion of mineralogy, 122. 



Neill, Mr. Peter, translation of Dau- 

 buijson on the basalt of Saxony, by, 

 142. 



Nerves, influence of, on the beating of 

 the arteries, 149. 



Newcastle Coal Formation, 410. 



Nitre, formation of, on walls, 68. 



Northumberland, geognostic sketch of, 

 337, 410. 



Orfila, M. on poisons, 463. 



Organic matter, experiments on, 323. 



, mode of analysing, 



404. 



Osmium, 309. 



Oxycarbureted hydrogen gas from alco- 

 hol and ether analysed, 37. 



Palladium, on, 216 — some properties 



of, 271. 

 Park, Mr. Mungo, account of his 



death, 382. 

 Patents, 18, 158, 238. 317. 

 Peperino, what, 115. 

 Pericarpium, on, 390. 

 Petrefaction, remarkable, 77. 

 Phillips, Mr. R. on Mr. Hume's paper 



on barytes, 432. 

 Philosophical Transactions for 1814, 



part first, 439. 

 Plagiostoma, a new genus of shells, 



449. 

 Plate, what, 340. 

 Plymouth, weather at, 276. 

 Poisons, work on, 463. 

 Porrett, Mr. on the triple prussiates, 



152. 

 Post, what, 419. 



Potassium, method of procuring, 69. 

 Prout, Dr. on the quantity of carbonic 



acid gai emitted from the lungs by 



respiration, 331. 

 Prussiates, triple, on, 150. 



R. 



Rafanesque Smaltz, Mr. papers by, 



448. 

 Rain, diminution of temperature from, 



accounted for, 312. 

 Razoumoffskin, analysis of, 215. 

 Refraction, explained on mechanical 



principles. 19 — investigated by Or. 



Brinkley, 450. 



Retzius, mistake respecting, corrected, 



311. 

 Rhizoctones, 453. 

 Rhodium, on, 216 — some properties of, 



274. 

 Rider, what, 419. 

 Rocks, arrangement of, by Brogniart, 



388. 

 Rocou, analysis of, 214. 

 Roget, Dr. arithmetical machine, by, 



448. 

 Roxburgh, Dr. on Cajeput oil-tree, 70. 

 Royal society, meetings of, 66, 149, 



448. 

 Rupert's drops crystallized, 76. 



S. 



Saccharometer, 236. 



Saffron, meadow, on the poisonous 

 qualities of, 281. 



Salts, vegetable, how analysed, 409. 



Saussure, M. Theodore de, on the com- 

 position of alcohol and ether, 34. 



Scale of chemical equivalents, 176. 



Scarr, what, 419. 



Scheele, Charles William, biographical 

 account of, 161. 



Scotland, north-east coast of, minera- 

 logy of, 397. 



Sea water, analysis of, 200. 



Seeds, on, 390. 



Shell lish in a moss at Elgin, query re- 

 specting, 471. 



Shells, bed of, on tbe banks of the 

 Forth, 133 — fossil, two new genera 

 of, 448. 



Shiver, what, 419. 



Sicily, books of science published in, 

 from 1800 to 1812, 47. 



Sill, what, 419. 



Skeleton, fossil human, from Guada 

 loupe, 444. 



Society for preventing accidents in 

 coal-mines, 315. 



Solstices, on, 151. 



Sowerby, Mr. on two new genera of 

 fossil shells, 448. 



Sound, new experiments on, suggested, 

 233. 



Spain, central tabular land of, height 

 of, 466. 



,. highest point In, 466. 



Spectrum, prismatic, analogy between, 

 and the musical division of sound, 

 254. 



Speronr, 116. 



Spider, curious fact respecting, 70. 



Stars, fixed, parallax of several, found 

 by Dr. Biinkley, 449. 



Steam engine, new application of, 232. 



Stomach, influence of the nerves on its 

 secretions, 444. 



Stromeyer, Professor, on the composi- 

 tion of arragonite, 244. 



