Index. 825 



Conductors and non-conductors of heat . . . . ii, 275 ; iii, 44. 

 Confined air used to confine heat . . i, 401 ; iii, 15, 46 ; iv, 790. 



Conjectures respecting harmony of colours iv, 63-71. 



Construction of kitchen fire-places and kitchen uten- 

 sils, Essay on (with plates) iii, 167-488. 



Cooking at sea . iii, 149. 



for the poor, experiments on iv, 529-549. 



in steam ........ ii, 336 ; iii, 360-373, 442. 



Cooling bodies, experiments on . .'ii, 137. 



of bodies covered with black paint ii, 41. 



black varnish ii, 41. 



glue ii, 37. 



gold, silver, etc ii, 58. 



lamp-black ii, 41. 



linen ii, 29. 



spirit varnish . . . . . ii, 39. 



white paint ii, 41. 



of hot bodies in a cold fluid medium, law of . . ii, 32. 

 of liquids in vessels of porcelain, gilded and 



not gilded ii, 241-250. 



Cordon, the, in Bavaria iv, 247, 715. 



Corn, Indian, as food iv, 450, 466, 468. 



Corrosion by contact of unlike metals ii, 350. 



Cottage fire-places iii, 151, 235. 



Covers for boilers should be double iii, 15. 



Crawford's experiments on heat developed in combustion iv, 406. 

 Creator, goodness and wisdom of, as shown by his works i, 312-333, 



429, 464. 



Cruickshank's analysis of ether ii, 397. 



Crystallization of salt, instance of i, 390. 



Currents in the ocean i, 329. 



DAMPERS, importance of iii, 34, 242. 



De Luc, experiments on ratio of condensation of cooling 



liquids i> 3 11 - 



Dephlogisticated air i, 193. 



De Saussure's analysis of alcohol ii, 393. 



ether ii, 396. 



experiments on temperature of deep lakes . i, 323. 

 Dining-room illuminator iv, 113. 



