INDEX. 



Account of chemical experiments on taba- 



sheer, 1. 

 Account of discovery of native minium, 



32. 

 Acids, discovery of, in mineral substances, 



82, 134, 144. 



Amp&re on metallic tin, 74. 

 Analysis of calamines, 18. 

 Analysis of tabasheer, 1. 

 Animal greens, 04. 



Arid, distinction between dry and, 20. 

 Ark, Noah's, described in the Bible, perils 



of, 1UG. 

 Arsenic, detection of minute quantities of, 



75. 



sulphuret of, 65, 132 144, 147. 

 Arsenical acid, test of, 84. 

 Arts of ancient peoples, 101. 



Balance, description of, by Dr. Black, 117. 



notes on, by Smithson, 119, 137. 

 Bamboo, tabasheer from, 1. 

 Banks, Sir Joseph, letter to, 32. 

 Barium, sulphates of, 71, 81, 132, 134. 

 Basalts, Gregory Watts on, 127. 

 Beck, Lewis C., on igneous action, 130. 

 Belzoni, Mr., specimen from, 102. 

 Benefactions to science, 124. 

 Bergman on calamines, 18. 



on fernambuc wood, 96. 



employed sugar loaf paper, 61. 

 Berzelius on blow-pipe, 92, 96. 



on plomb gomme, 07. 

 Binary compounds, 34. 

 Binnite, 05, 147. 

 Bleyberg, calamine from, 18. 

 Blow-pipe apparatus, 86. 

 Boracic acid, test of, 84. 

 Bournonite, 34. 

 Boyle on muriate of iron, 58. 

 Buckland's Keliquse Diluvianse, 104. 



Calamines, analyses of, 18, 125, 144, 145. 



Calcium, fluoride of, 71. 



Capillary metallic tin, 74. 



Carbonic acid, test of, 86. 



Cave, formation of the Kirkdale, 103. 



Character of Smithson, W. R. Johnson, 123. 



Chemical analysis of calamines, 18. 



experiments on tabasheer, 1. 



nomenclature of Smithson, 152. 

 Chemistry, Smithson on, 26, 125. 

 Chloride of potassium, discovery of, in the 



earth, 89. 



Chromic acid, test of, 84. 

 Clarke, Dr., on form of ice, 80. 

 Clay, method of forming plates of, 86. 

 Clement, experiments of, 74. 

 Coffee, improved method of making, 87, 



1:55, 155. 



Coloring matters of vegetables, 58, 131. 

 Colors, method of fixing, 120. 



of Egyptian paintings, 101, 102, 136. 

 Combination, all binary, 36. 



Compounds of fluorine, 94. 

 Compounds, quadruple and binary, 34. 

 Composition of compound sulphuret from 



Huel Boys, 34. 

 Composition of zeolite, 42. 

 Conflagration of the earth, 52. 

 Cookery, improvements in, 88. 

 Copper, 68, 132. 



Corn poppy, coloring matter of, 63. 

 Crayon colors, method of fixing, 120. 

 Cronstedt, Baron, on zeolite, 45. 

 Crystalline form of ice, 80. 

 Crystallization, Smithson on, 126. 

 Crystallography, Smithson's papers on, 147. 

 Crystals, ores of copper in, 39. 

 Curtin, Mr., specimen from, 102. 

 Cyanite, notice of Smithson's paper on, 135, 



147. 



Dalton's theory, 145. 

 Davy, Humphrey, discovery by, 44. 

 D'Ayen, Duke, on muriate of iron, 58. 

 De Laumont on plomb gomme, 67. 

 Deluge, views of a universal, 104, 139, 155. 

 Derbyshire, calamine from, 22. 

 De Saussure's contrivances, 91. 

 De Thury, H., on forms of ice, 80. 

 Detection of very minute quantities of 



arsenic and mercury, 75. 

 Diamonds, experiments with, 93. 

 Discovery of acids in mineral substances, 



82. * 



of chloride of potassium in the earth, 89. 

 of native minium, 32. 

 Dry, distinction between arid and, 20. 





 Earth, changes observed in, 103. 



discovery of chloride of potassium in, 89. 

 Economy, importance and advantages of, 



88, 135. 



Egyptian colors, examination of, 101. 

 Elephant, hairy, of Siberia, 112. 

 Elm tree, ulmin from, 47. 

 Error always associated with evil, 104. 

 Examination of some Egyptian colors, 101. 

 Experiments on decay of animal muscle, 



109. 



Extinguishing lamps, 79. 

 Extracts from Smithson's writings, 154. 



Fibrous metallic copper, 68. 



Fingal's cave, Smithson's visit to, 139. 



Fixing crayon colors, method of, 120. 



Florentine experiment, 75. 



Fluoride of calcium, 71. 



Fluorine, compounds of, 94, 136, 144, 146. 



Fluor spar, nature of, 95. 



Fossil world, absence of human remains 



in, 114. 



Fourcroy, observations of, 35, 59. 

 Franklin, founding of a library by, 123. 

 Fuel for chemical lamps, 134. 

 Fusibility, experiments on, 93. 



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