An Overflowing Well Vulliamy. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



5. Hydraulics. 



. . 184 



6. Pneumatics. 



Page 



The Force of Fired Gun- 

 powder 



Rumford . 



140 



On Horizontal Refractions. . Huddart .... 88 

 The Properties of Light . . Brougham . . 196 

 Reflexibility of Light .... Prevost .... 320 

 Atmospherical Refractions . . Latham, Wm. 337 

 Chemical Properties of Light, Rumford .... 378 



Horizontal Refractions .... Vince 436 



Telescopic Penetrat. into 1 He „ chel 



Space ■ 



Experiments on Sound and 



Light 



7. Optics. 



Spontaneous Light of Bodies, Hulme 6*30 



Double Images by Atmos- J Wollagton>w . H . 66y 



pher 



Heat and Light of Prisma, 

 tic Rays 



i 



Herschel 



675 



Refrangibility of Refran- J Herschel # _ 6gs 



J* Herschel 580 F hle Ra y s J 



i Solar and TerrestrialHeat- 1 Herschel 6o2 750 



JYoung 604 Ra ? s S 



8. Electricity, Magnetism, Thermometry. 



D i Ne n edle Variati0n f 9? } Mcdonald, 29, 3 55 ° jgj* Weight aSCribed t0 } Rumford .... 496 



Donation for a Prize Medal, Rumford .... 137 GalvanicPiIe,or Electricity, Volta 744 



The Heat excited by Fric- 1 j>r. 2 _ 8 Davy's Experiments with I •& « . 7Q8 



tion / the same J '■* 



Class III. Natural History. 



1. Zoology. 



On the Sea-Otter 



Home and Menzies 34 



1. Mineralogy, 



C Leaa hian M61ybdatG ° f }Hatchett .... 4 

 Singular Balls in a Tunnel, Outram . 

 The Nature of the Diamond, Tennant . 

 The Sydneia, or Terra Au- J Hatchett 



30 

 97 



On the Ornithorhyncus )„ 6 



Paradoxus J 



Fossilogy, &c. 



On the Corundum Stone. .. . Greville .... 356 

 On a Submarine Forest . . Correa de Serra 479 

 On Zoophytes, and on 7 



Membrane j 



Hatchett 706 



stralis 3 



290 



3. Geography. 



On the Density of the Earth, Cavendish.. 388 



Class IV. Chemical Philosophy. 



] . Chemistry. 



Carynthian Molybdate of7 Hatchett 



Lead } 



The Gaz produced from } p 



Water ) 



Actionof Nitre on Gold, &c. Tennant 

 CarbonatedHydrogenousGas, Henry. . 

 Effects of the Mi re of Diss, Hatchett 

 Acid of Borax, or Sedative i rjrell 



Salt j 



104 



138 

 221 

 421 



457 



On the Tanning Principle 1 



and Gallic Acid in Trees J 

 On Lime for Agriculture . . 

 Observations on Shell and ) 



Bone J 



The Spontaneous Light of I 



Bodies j 



Decomposing the Muriatic \ 



Acid j 



A NewFulminatingMercury, 



Biggin . 

 Tennant 

 Hatchett 



Hulme . . 



Henry . . 

 Howard 



.. 527 



. 548 



. 554 



. 630 



. 641 



. 649 



