INDEX. 



Dead Sea, analysis of the waters of, 32 



Decay of wood, prevention of, 69, 102 



Deluc, G. A. on the crystallized sub- 

 stances included in lavas, 176, 242 



Descotils, M. Collet, his chemical ex- 

 amination of a sparry iron ore, 357 



Desormes, M. 326 



Deyeux, 272 



Diabetes, essay on, 230 — Cured by ani- 

 mal food, 232, 236 



Dickson, Mr. J. on a variety of the 

 brassica napus, or rape, which has 

 long been cultivated on the continent, 

 168 



Digestion, process of, 8 



Dobson, on diabetes, 2 SO 



Dolomieu, M. on volcanic productions, 

 183 



D'Oyley, Mrs. Hannah, Tier new me- 

 thod of rearing poultry to advantage, 

 346 



Draining the pond of Citis, 88 



Drappier, M. on iron spar, 315 



Drew, Mr. Richard, description of his 

 balance level, \jseful for laying out 

 land for irrigation, for roads, and for 

 other purposes, 344 



Drowning, machine to prevent, 281 



Drjr rotj inquiry into its causes, and the 

 means of prevention, 69, 102 



Dryander, Mr. on the time when the 

 potato was introduced to the British 

 Isles, 1 



Dundonald, Lord, 103 



Dupuytren and Thenard, on the sac- 

 charine diabetes, 230 



Dytiscus on gravitation, in reply lo 

 Professor Vince, 114, 276— Answer- 

 ed, 222 



Ed use's « History of Plants," 56 



Electricity, new phenomena of chemi- 

 cal changes produced by, 290 



Elliott, Mr. his description of the G^y- 

 il, or Indian ox, 207 



Escul|e&t root, new^ described, 168 

 b2 



F. 



Falconer, Rev. Tho5. his remarks oh 

 the experiment of Mr. Irwin on soap- 

 suds as a manure, 100 



Fauj?^, M. mistake of, as to the pos- 

 sibility of lava insinuating itself into 

 the fibres 6f wood without consuming 

 it, 247 



Ferrarius on the culture of flowers, 5Z 



Fife, Earl of, communication from, re- 

 lative to his plantations, 650 



Fire-balls, atmospheric, 81 



Fishes near Edinburgh, S19 



Fixed alkalies, see Alkalies 



Fluorspar, 238 



Forbes, Dr. his new tran?;lation of Pli- 

 ny's Natural History, 383 



Forsyth, Mr. 10 1 



Fourcroy on molybdena, 125 



Franck on diabetes, 230 



Franklin, Dr. on the southerly windf 

 which follow the aurora borealis, 8ft 



French chalk, analysis of, 175 



French turnips, see Turnips 



Friction communicates heat to water^ 

 113 



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Galvanism, effects of, on animals, 371 



Gannet, or Soland goose, natural his- 

 tory of, 318 



Gardening, 65 



Garrard, Mr. Wm. on a new property 

 of the tangents of the three angles of 

 a plane triangle, 338 



Gayil, a new species of ox, 201 



Geological remarks on a odcareous 

 mountain near Chejsjr, 64 



Gerard's " Herbal," 2 



Giddy, D. Esq. 24 



Gillet Laumont, M. 144 



Giobert, M. 272 



Giulio, M on <h* native gold ^u<C 

 found in the hilU in the environs of 

 the commune of St. George's, in the 

 department of the Owirc, 266 



Gold dust, Ke Giuii» 



Gordon, 



