Index. 825 



Conductors and non-conductors of heat . . . . ii, 275 j 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, 33^ ; iii, 360-373, 442 



Cooling bodies, experiments on ii, ^37 



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, 35° 



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, 311 



Dephlogisticated air i, ^93 



De Saussure's analysis of alcohol . ii, 393 



ether ii, 396 



experiments on temperature of deep lakes . i, 323 

 Dining-room illuminator iv, 1 13 



