ANALYTICAL INDEX. 



JONES, Sir William, on the Hindoo worship of the sun, 460 ; 

 on the traces of affinity between the Egyptians, Hindoos, 

 and Chinese, 734; on the Hindoo Trinity, 857, note. 



JONNES, M. Moreau, on the annual mortality of different coun- 

 tries, 760. 



JOVE, a personification of the celestial solar fire, 740, 741. 



JUPITER, a personification of the celestial solar fire, 741, 742. 



JURINE, on the diminution of respiration during the cold stage 

 of fever, 1039 ; and its increase during the hot stage, 1045. 



KANT, Emanuel, denies the extension and solidity of atoms, 172 ; 



resolves heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, into attraction 



and repulsion, 173 ; his metaphysics, 857. 

 KEPLER, his great astronomical discoveries, 34 ; referred to by 



Mr. Whewell, 506. 

 KIELMEYER, on the difference between organic and inorganic 



bodies, 518. 

 KINGSBOROUGH, Lord, on the Hebrew origin of Mexican words, 



743. 

 KNOX, Dr. his observations on the pulse, 945. 



LAMARCK, on the vital principle, 500 ; on the unity of organi- 

 zation, 758. 



LANCET, (a " little instrument of mighty mischief,") rule for the 

 employment of, 1097. 



LANG, Mr. on the maximum temperature of New Holland, 702, 

 748. 



LANGUAGE, a criterion of national origin and kindred, 735. 



LAPLACE, on variations of the planetary inclinations, 27 ; on ca- 

 pillary attraction, 257, 261, 264. 



LARDNER, Dr. on the temperature at which bodies become lu- 

 minous, 223 ; on the cohesive force of solutions, 237. 



LAVOISIER, his theory of combustion and fermentation, 213; 

 overturns the phlogistic theory of Stahl, 215; defects of his 

 theory, 215 ; experiments on electricity, 306, 307 ; on respi- 

 ration, 538, 540 ; on the influence of exercise on respiration, 

 876. 



LAWRENCE, Mr. on the ultimate objects of philosophical research, 

 507 ; on the means of perfecting medical science, 690 ; on the 

 average height of five negroes, 719 : on the different races of 

 mankind, 730 ; on the influence of bad institutions, 727 ; on 

 inflammation, 1082, note. 



LAWS, of caloric, 13, 14 ; of meteorology, 18, 20; of volcanic 

 forces, 22 ; of mountain elevations, 22, 25 ; of variations in 

 the planetary inclinations, 27, 30 ; of planetary motion, 30, 31, 

 32 ; of Kepler and Newton, 34 ; of physiology and pathology, 



