M D E X 



TO VOL. XIII. 



J\. B. oh increafiiig the adion of found, 



A- B. C on the knowledge poffefled by 



the Hindoos of Saturn's ring, 418. 

 Aberdeen Literary Society, 163, 208 

 Abrafion^ doctrine of, abfurdly applied, 310 

 Abforption of gafes by water, &c. 291 

 Academy of Sciences ^t Turin, memoirs 



of, 369 

 Accum, Mr. 40, 223 

 Accum's Chemiftry, quotation from, 236 

 Acetic acid, memoir on, 42 

 Achard, M. his method cf obtaining fu- 



gar from beets too expenfive, 267 

 Atouftics, letter from a Correfpondent 



on, 51 

 A. F.'s defcription of a new ftatlcal lamp, 



j66. — Seealfo 277 

 Air and fteam, 283 

 Air, foul, of oil cifterns, fatal eiJefts of, 



238. — Analyzed, 239 

 A. L. on the Scotch filheties, i63.— 



Anfwered, 200. 

 Alcohol will hold lefs fulphur in folution 



than ether, 68, 70 

 Almanack printed at Conftantinople, 274 

 America, map of, done in relief, 188 

 Amicus on the fuppofed wafte of crab-fifh 



in Scotland, 417. 

 Analyfis of ftones by means of borax, 86 

 Anatomical cabinet at Berlin, 91 

 Anecdote, a medical, 14 

 Animal matter afted upon by nitric acid, 



memoir on, 240 

 Arnold's chronometers, 275 

 A. T. on fairy rings, 415. — On the wafte 



of fi/h in Scotland, 416. 

 Athenee des Aits, of Paris, report made 



to, on founding ftatues in bronze in a 



pew way, 128 

 Vol, XIJI. 



Athletic esercifes, training for, 309 



Atn-iOfpheric gafes, their relative propor- 

 tions, 430. 



Azote, fa£ts a,nd obfervatlons on the me- 

 dical refpiration of gafeous oxide of, 

 ". 354 



Azotic gas the ca«fe of the deletereous 

 effects of confined air, 340 



B. 



Badollier's procds of obtaining acetic acid 

 from acetate of lead, 42,— Objections 

 to it, 42, 45 



Balbis, J. B. 370 



Balbo, profeflbr, 370 



Balfour, Dr. 17, — On the diurnal vari- 

 ations of the barometer, 56 



Banks, Mr. inftrument maker, 199 



BarcuUi, Ferdinand, 47 



Barnftaple mineral, 257 



Barometer, diurnal variations of, 16, 56. 

 — Suppoficion of their being occafioned 

 hy the fame caufe which produces land 

 and fea winds, anfwered, 58.— Proba- 

 bility that the equi-tropical change is 

 caufed by afccnding and defcending cur- 

 rents in the atmofphere, 5S 



Barometer, a portable, 369 



Barton, Dr. on the fuppofed power of faf- 

 cination in ferpents, 300 



Bafaltes from the coaft of Antrim, 273, 

 287 



Bavarian obfervatory, 274 



Beauvallet, 128 



Beddoes, Dr. on the medical refpiration 

 of gafeous oxide of azote, n.— .An- 

 fwertohisqueftion to Mr. Stodart, 165 



iPeet-fugar, 267. — The beft to be obtained 

 from the ^)eet of Carthenaudery, 268 



Belpher, Mr. his obfervatlons on the effe£l 

 of madder root on the bones of animals, 

 406. 



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