INDEX. 



Caflius, powder of, analyfit of, 33X 

 Catalogue of the refuits of Sir James 

 Hail's experiments on the efFeds of 

 heat madified by cjmpreflion, 314. 

 Cavendift's expjriment, 171 

 Chemical Society in London, profpeftus 



of a, 268 

 Chemical theory > 90, 161 

 Chenevix on light, 165 

 Chronometers, hiftory of their progrefs 



towards perfedlion, Z73 

 Clairaut*s theory of capillary tubes im- 



perfe(a^, 249 

 Cliches (ftamps) how to obtain with 

 moulds of plafter of Paris, fulphur, or 

 sealing-wax, 191 

 Clubmofs, dyes obtained from, 227 

 Coals, on the formation of, 197 

 Cohcfion of Fluids, 74 

 Coins, filver, analyfed, 396 

 Cointeraux, M.'Frai jois, his method of 

 building ftrong and durable walls of 

 common earth, 213 

 Columbium, ore of, 18 j 

 Combuftion, theory of, belongs to Hooke 

 and others, prior to Lavoifier, 91, 233 

 '^^ee Heat. 

 Como, fudden eruption of water nearj 



x8i 

 ComprelHon, experiments on the effe£Vs 

 of, in modifying the aftion of heat, 

 13, 113, 196, 302, 314 

 Condudtors and non-conduftors of heat, 



354 

 Copernicus's fyftem, 161 

 Coquebert, Eugene, 227 

 Cornifh mineral, its hiftory and analyli-, 



Cornwall, inquiry relative to a pheno- 

 menon on the coaft of, 185 



Cofte, M. 57 



Counterproofs taken from engravings, 

 &c. 189 



Craniology, 350 



Crawford's fafls towards a theory of che- 

 miftry adopted by Lavoifier, 91, 163 



Cullen, Dr. 63 



Cmcnn in fluids, 354. 



Dalrymple, Mr. 302 

 Dalton, Mr. J. on the temperature aC 

 which water is of the greateft denfity, 

 128 

 Damafcus fteel, peculiar texture of, 92 

 Dambourzy, M. 230 

 Darcft, M. on the means of obtaining 

 ftamps with moulds of plafter of Paris, 

 &c. 191 

 Daw, H. Efq. on the fluoric acid in 



Wavellite, 267 

 Deguife, 63 



De la Metherie on light, 165 

 De Luc's menfuration of heights by means 



of the barometer, i 

 Denfity of water, inveftigation relative to, 



128 

 Des Cartes, 161 

 Deleffart, 57 

 Desgennettes, 63 

 Double, 63 

 Drowning, inquiry why men are more 



liable to it than brutes, 324 

 Dutertre's claim to the invention of a 

 detached efcapement in time-keepers, 

 unfupported, 285 

 Dyes obta ned from different fpecies of 

 clubmofs, 227 



Earnfliaw's improvement of chronometers, 

 273, 294,298, 363 



Earth walls, inftrudions for building, 213 



E. D. on the fpontaneous recovery or the 

 edge in dull razors laid afide for a time, 

 89— On the claim of Lavoifier to the 

 modern theory of oxidation, 90, 231— 

 Refpeftmo the difcoverlesof Mayow,4i9 



Electromicrometer of Veau de Launay, 

 350 



Emenn t, 63 



Englefield, Sir H. C. his cheap and por- 

 table barometer defcribed, i 



Enquiries, fe^' Qj,ery 



Erhmann, M. 195 



Eruption of Vcfuvius in June, j8o6, 

 account of, 245 



Euler, 



