ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



BROWN, Dr. Joseph, on epidemic cholera in India, 815. 



BRUCE, on varieties of colour among the Arabs, 749. 



BRYANT, Jacob, his etymology of the word heat, 2 ; on the deri- 

 vation of the words life and animal, 736 ; origin of the Greek 

 word AI0EP, 736 ; of the Greek word 0EOS, and the oriental 

 word Baal, 737 ; of the Greek word for sun, 738 ; of the 

 words Syria and Persia, 738, 739. 



BUDHISTS, of India, why they employed cold bathing and vegetable 

 food, 726, 889. 



BUFFON, on the times required for different metals to cool, 181 ; 

 on the primitive incandescence of the earth, 406. 



BULWER, Sir Edward, on language as a criterion of national origin, 

 735 ; on the inutility of the most revered prejudices, 1098. 



BUSSY, congeals alcohol, 143. 



BYRON, Lord, refutes Berkley's theory with a pleasant satire, 8, 

 note; how he lost his life in its meridian, 802, note; how he 

 got the ague by swimming the Hellespont, 852, note. 



CAIRO, its mean annual temperature, 704. 



CALDWELL, Dr. C. on the recent origin of America, 745 ; on 

 the varieties of mankind, 754 ; examination of his views, 774 ; 

 on longevity of the Negro race, 774 ; on yellow fever, 804 ; 

 on malaria, 824 ; on the humoral pathology, 992 ; on the 

 indications of sensuality, 1005. 



CALDCLEUGH, Mr. on the dew point, 291 ; on a submarine volcano, 

 401. 



CALMET, his definition of some important words, 2. 



CALORIC, the most refined and spiritual of all the elements, 1 ; 

 the cause, and distinct from the mere sensation of, of heat, 2 ; 

 regarded by the ancients as identical with existence or being, 

 2 ; meaning of the Greek word nvp, 2 ; views of Bacon and 

 Davy concerning, 3 ; of Sir I. Newton, 5 ; a material agent, 

 5, 6 ; is not a mere quality or property, 7 ; vibratory theory of 

 explains nothing, not even the cause of vibrations, 8 ; does 

 not consist in motion and vibration, 8 ; not generated by 

 pressure, friction, and percussion, without condensation, 9 ; 

 surrounds the particles of all bodies, 1 1 ; a constituent of 

 all bodies, 12; occupies by far the greater proportion of the 

 earth's volume, 12; general laws of, 13, 14; a self active 

 principle, 14, 15 ; the prime mover, 17 ; therefore the cause of 

 attraction and repulsion, 17; is everywhere present, 17; pos- 

 sesses the attributes of a vera causa, 17 ; forces of in meteor- 

 ology, 19, 20; the cause of geological dynamics, 21 ; a bound- 

 less ocean of aethereal essence, 36 ; perpetual circulation of, 

 40 ; the golden everlasting chain that holds the universe 

 together, 44 ; physiological and pathological laws of, 44, 45 ; 



