Newman, Mr. improved gazometer, 6. 
Nice, on the country round, 397. 
Nickel, method of detecting, 466. 
Nomenclature, chemical, queries re- 
specting, 329. 
Ocean, intertropical, temperature and 
specific gravity of, 469. 
Qdier, Dr. death of, 484, 
Olefiant gas, union with chlorine, 26, 
Oopas tree of Java, account of, 202. 
Optics, improvements in, during 1816, 3. 
Ornithorinchus: paradoxus, peculiarity 
in, 325. 
Orthite, 160. . 
 Oryctognosy, improvements in 1816, 59. 
Ovum, passage of, into the uterus, 468. 
Oxalates, 34, 
Oxalic acid, composition of, 33. 
Peonia, on the genus, 231, 
Parallax of the fixed stars, on, 231, 324. 
Patents, list of, 334, 413. 
Pearl spar, 80. 
Pearson, Mr. on the mercurial prepa- 
rations used by the Chinese, 344, 
Pendulum, on the experiments to deter- 
mine the length of, 488, 
Pensey, Mr. on an Aurora Borealis 
seen at Sunderland, 250. 
Perthshire, on a mineralogical descrip- 
tion of, 219, 
Peschier, M. on benzoic acid asa re- 
__ agent for iron, 162. 
Petit, M. on the dispersive powers of 
‘certain bodies, 3—on the dispersive 
and refractive powers of liquids, 155, 
Pettigrew, Dr. on the introduction of 
vaccine matter into America, 404. 
Philips, Mr, Richard, on an anomaly in 
affinity, 11. 
Philips, Mr. W. on measurements by 
the reflective goniometer, 471. 
Philosophical Transactions for 1816, 
analysis of, 462, 
Phosphorescence of fluor spar, 17, 
Phosphatic acid, 35. 
Phosphites, 47. 
Phosphoric acid, 36—action of, on in- 
digo, 40. 
Phosphorous acid, 35, 
Phosphorus, on the acids of, 34, 
Phosphureted hydrogen gas, 26, 
Phthore, 8. 
Physiology, 87. 
Platina, purification of, 29. 
Platinum, fulminating, account of, 229, 
Pole, North, queries respecting the 
probability of reaching, 381. 
Pond, Mr. on the parallax of the fixed 
stars, 231, 324, 
Porret, Mr, on the flame of a candle, 
337. 
Pressure, influence of, on electricity, 
354, 
Prony, M. lectures by, on analytical 
mechanics, 235, 
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Index. 
495 
Purpurissum, 134—substitute fer, 134, 
Pyrodmalite, analysis cf, 78. 
Pyrophorus of Homberg, on, 18. 
Pyrorthite, 160. 
Quantity, influence of, on chemical 
action, 352, 
Racket, Mr. on a serpent found in Dor- 
setshire, 394, 
Rain of red dust, 84, 
Rat @eau, on, 398, 
Raumer, new arrangement of rocks, 82. 
Rhinoceros, bones of, found at Ply- 
mouth, 323, 
Rhubarb, acids in, 103. 
Ridolfi, Marquis, on the purification of 
platina, 29, 
Risso, M. on the crustaceous animals 
round Nice, 227, 
Robiquet, M. on the combination of 
olefiant gas and chlorine, 26, 
Rosacic acid, 40, 
Royal Society, meetings of, 148, 229, 
394, 468. 
Ruhland, M. on metallic hydrurets, 5. 
Salt, new mineral, 483. 
Sapphyr d’eau, analysis of, 69. 
Savigny, M. on animals without ver- 
tebrx, 226. 
Saussure, M. Theodore de, on the car- 
bonic acid in the atmosphere, 41. 
Sciences, physical, improvements in, 
during 1816, 1. 
Scudamore, Dr. analysis of Tunbridge 
Wells’ water, 49. 
Sea water, analysis of, 50. 
Sea, temperature of, 247. 
Serpentine, analysis of, 79, 
Serpent, uncommon, found in Dorset- 
shire, 394, 
Ship-building, improyementsin, on, 150. 
Silica, how separated from tantalum, 
105. 
Silk-worms, excrements of, 57. 
Silver, chlorate of, 43—cupellation of, 
29—phosphates of, 45. 
Silver kupperglanz, analysis of, 245. 
Sky, mineralogy of, 472, 474. 
Smith, Sir James E. on tordilium, 325, 
Soda, phosphate of, 45, 
Soda lake in South America, 83, 
Solids, structure of, 11, 
Sowerby, Mr, chemical classification of 
minerals by, 124—on fossil remains 
from the Tagus, 470. 
Spiders, on their power of conveying 
their threads from one point to an- 
other, 306, 
Stadion, Frederick Count of, on per- 
chloric acid, 22. 
Statics, improvements in, during 1816, 4. 
Steel, 31. 
Stilbite, analysis of, 80, 
Stockton, Mr. meteorological table,168, 
Stone found in a bed of coal, 166, 
Strawberry, species of, on, 469, 
