492 Index. 
Canal levels, on, 177. 
Canvas tubes for conveying water, 327, 
Carbonic acid in the atmosphere, quan- 
tity of, 41. 
Carburet of phosphorus, 8, 
Carpathian mountains, on, 140. 
Caspian and Black Sea, levels of, 83. 
Caversham, in Berkshire, waters of, 
analyzed, 49. - 
Causeway, Giants, on, 118. 
Celestine from Dornburg, analysis of, 
248, 
Cerin, 53. 
Cerine, analysis of, 78, 
Chabanne, Marquis de, ventilation by, 
187, 
Chaptal, M. on beet sugar, 50. 
Charcoal, composition of, 25, 
Chemical bodies, new classification 
of, 8. 
Chemistry, improvements in, during 
1816, 6. 
Chevreul, M. on metalline mnuriates, 
42—analysis of cork, by, 52—on the 
gases in the intestines of a healthy 
man, 57. 
Chinese, on the mercurial preparations 
of, 344. 
Clay, query respecting its combusti- 
bility, 167. 
Chlorates, on, 42. 
Chloric ether, 26. 
Chlorides, conversion into muriates, 42. 
Chlorine, combinations of, with oxy- 
gen, 22—union with olefiant gas, 26, 
Chyle, analysis of, 57. 
Chyme, analysis of, 56. 
Cinchona, on a preparation of, 451. 
Cinnamon stone, matrix of, 83. 
Citrate of potash, properties of, 352. 
Clarke, Dr. experiments by, with the 
oxygen and hydrogen blow-pipe, 7, 
89, 194—improvements in the blow- 
pipe, by, 162, 326—on a dark bitu- 
minous lime-stone, 395, 
Clouds, observations on, 216. 
Coal-mines, on explosions in, 131. 
Cobalt in meteoric iron, 249, 
Colchicum autumnale, on rendering 
milder, 468. 
Colin, M. on the combination of ole- 
fiant gas and chlorine, 26, 
Collet-Descotils, M. biographical ac- 
count of, 417. 
Confiliacchi, M. on galvanism, 5. 
Copper, chlorate of, 44—carbosilicate 
of, 71—pyrites, analysis of, 80. 
Cork, analysis of, 52. 
Crystallization, effect of air on, 13. 
Cubie equations, on, 378, 
Cumberland, George, Esq. on fossil 
heads and encrinites found near Bris- 
tol, 473. 
Cumberland, structure of, 83, 
Cyst iu the human liver, 56. 
Dacosta, Mr. onthe mineralogy of the 
North of Ireland, 232, 
Dalton, Mr. John, on the absorption of 
gases by liquids, 12—on the dilata- 
tion of liquids, 19—on the chemical 
compounds of azote and oxygen, 186. 
Daniell, Mr. on the structure of solid 
bodies, 11. 
Davenport, Mr. Richard, on boiling 
tar, 111. 
Davy, Mr. Edmund, on fulminating 
platinum, 229, 
Davy, Sir H. on aqua regia, 34—on 
flame, 151—his method of consuming 
exploding compounds without explo- 
sion, 152—on the fire-damp of coal- 
mines, 462—on a safe lamp, 462— 
on the combustion of explusive mix- 
tures confined by wire-gauze, 463. 
Davy, Dr. John, on the temperature 
and specific gravity of the intertro- 
pical ocean, 469. 
Delaroche, M. on the influence of wind 
on the propagation of sound, 2. 
Dessaignes, M, on the influence of tem- 
perature, &c. on electricity, 6, 354. 
Diamond, on the cutting, 465, 
Dick, Mr. Lauder, on the earthquake 
in Scotland, 163. 
Dilatation of liquids, on, 363, 431. 
Dobereiner, M. on the atoms of iron, 
zinc, and manganese, 14—on the 
compounds of azote and oxygen, 14 
—on Homberg’s pyrophorus, 18—on 
the preparation of boron, 24—on the 
composition of charcoal, 25—action 
of phosphoric acid on indigo, 40. 
Donovan, Mr. on acids in the stems of 
rhubarb, 103—mistake in his Essay 
on Galyanism corrected, 411. 
Dublin, rocks near, on, 471. 
Dulong, M. on nitrous acid, 15—on 
the acids of phosphorus, 34, 
Dupin, M. on ship-building, 157—on 
the re-establishment of the French 
Marine Academy, 238. 
Earth, measurement of a degree of, in 
Jutland, 161, 
Earthquake in Scotland, particulars 
respecting, 163, 
Electric properties of some minerals, 
Electricity, improvements in, during 
1816, 4—influence of temperature, 
&c. on, 6, 354, 
Emerald, analysis of, 73, 74. 
Emmett, Mr. on the chemical pheno- 
mena of heat, 421. 
Encrinites, fossils, heads of, 473. 
Epidermis, composition of, 55, 
Lther, composition of, 28—spontaneous 
alteration in, 28, 
Farey, Mr. John, on a mineralogical 
description of Perthshire, 219, 
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