ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



gard to the nature of, 282 ; views of ^Kirwan, De Saussure, 

 Nollet, and Jones, 285 ; atmospheric, erroneous views of 

 Franklin on the origin of, 286 ; Mr. Daniell's account of, 

 287 ; views of Dr. Thomson, 288 ; of Professor Forbes, 288 ; 

 transparent aqueous vapour the source of, 300 ; observations of 

 De Luc on, 301 ; opinion of Seneca on, 302; observations of 

 the author on, 303 ; of Beccaria, Franklin, and Volta, 305 ; 

 caloric of aqueous vapour the basis of, 305, 317 ; views of 

 Anaxagoras, 306 ; of Dr. Hare, 306 ; experiments of Lavoi- 

 sier and Laplace, 306-7 ; of Mr. Read, 307, 313 ; of De Saus- 

 sure, 307-9; its Protean changes, 310 ; experiments of Pouillet, 

 312-16; of Harris, 316 ; opinion of Epicurus, 317 ; general 

 corollaries, 319 ; its connection with hurricanes, tornados, hail 

 storms, &c. 330 ; Galvanic, 371 ; discoveries of Volta, 372 ; 

 of Fabroni, 374-5; always produced by chemical action, 377 ; 

 experiments of Delarive, 379 ; theory of, 382 ; identical with 

 caloric, 387, 393; generated by oxidation, 389; and other 

 chemical actions, 394 ; its connexion with volcanic action, 398 ; 

 whether a single or compound fluid, 418; theory of Dufay, 

 419; of Franklin, 420 ; experiments of De Saussure, 424 ; 

 views of Dr. Thomson, 425 ; some of its phenomena still 

 obscure, 427 ; analogies of to caloric, 433 ; repels its own 

 particles, and attracts those of ponderable matter, 437-38 ; per- 

 meates all bodies, 441 ; observations of Fusinieri on the com- 

 position of the spark from, 443 ; the vast mechanical forces 

 it exerts, 444-45 ; enormous .quantities of in a grain of water, 

 446; miraculous results of Faraday's experiments on, 447; 

 produces fulminary tubes in banks of sand, 448 ; expands all 

 bodies into light, 448 ; its connection with magnetism, 449 ; 

 supposed to be the materia vitse of J. Hunter, 500 ; the nervous 

 fluid of Dr. Billing, 500, note ; its developement by certain 

 fishes, 627-28. 



ELEMENTS, theory of the ancients concerning, 99 ; their present 

 reputed number, 99 ; resolvable into light, 99, 100. 



ELLIS, Mr. on the respiration of bees, 547. 



EMANATIONS, ancient theory of, 106, note ; law of their diffusion, 

 110,434. 



EMMEKT, his experiments on poisoning, 967. 



ENGLISH, stature of, 723. 



EPICURUS, his theory of cohesion, liquidity, and vacuum, 166 ; 

 his rational view of lightning, 317. 



EPIDEMICS, their remote causes obscure, 822 ; must be sought 

 for in more enlarged and profound views of climate, 822. 



ERMAN, his barometrical observations, 19. 



ESCULAPIUS, etymology of the word, 1078 ; an ancient prophecy 

 of his universal conquest over diseases, (not yet fulfilled,) 1078. 



