INDEX. 



Bel!, Mr. J. on the renovation of the 



bones, 414. 

 Bellows, on the Iieat of air blown from, 



73, 170 

 Benzenberg's experiments on falling bo- 

 dies, 187 

 Bergman, M. his method of obtaining 



pure nickel too cxpenfive for general 



ufe, 266 

 Bernouilli, 57 

 BerthoUet, 85.— His fulminating filver, 



S34. — His experiments on azote, 240 

 Elemcntler, M. on the quickfands of fea 



downs, and the means of avoiding them, 



319 



Biggins, Mr. his experiments on tannin, 36 



Bilious concretions, experiments on, 245 



Biot's theory of eleftricity, 90 



Bird-lime, analyfis of, 144.— Modes of 

 preparation, 145. — Its chemical and 

 phyfical charaftcriftics, 146 



Black, Dr. 226.— Extrafts frodi his lec- 

 tures on chemiftry, 170. — His difco- 

 very of carbonic acid, '3 30 



Blading rocks, improvements in, 192 



Blumenbach on the prefervation of fofiil 

 bones, &c. 359 



Boerhaave, 173 



Bones not permanent, but fucceffively re- 

 placed like the fluids, 310 



Bonvoifin, M. 370 



Boor, M. 49 



Boraccic acid very ufeful in analyfis, 86 



Borgia, mufeum of, account of an an- 

 cient geographical tablet there, 141 



Boring rocks, implements for, 192 



Boffi, Lew. on native gold, 371 



Boftock, Dr. on the faiine efferefcences 

 upon walls, 373.— On falivary concre- 

 tions, 374. — On the deflagration of 

 mercury by galvanifm, 37S.— On biliary 

 calculi, 376.— On the freezing point of 

 fpermaceti, 376, 



Bofwe!!, Mr. account of the performance 

 of the patent fhip, built under his di- 

 yedl^ion, 174. — Corr<;^ion of errors in 

 she defcription, ipji-w-Cefcription of 



his new parallel rule, exempt ftom la- 

 teral deviation, 196 

 Botanic garden at Schoenbrunn, 47.—. 



Valuable publications from it, 51 

 Beucharden's improvements in cafting 



bronze ftatues, 129 

 Boullay, M. 42 

 Boute, Dr. Gregory, 361 

 Boyle introduced a new fcience of natural 



philofophy, 82 

 Brande, Mr. on the enamel of the teeth, 



214 

 Bredemcyer, M. 49 

 Btunacci, Dr. on fumming up equations, 



371 

 Bucholz, M. on the different methods of 



feparating nickel from cobalt, 261; 

 Buds, reprodudlion of, 349 

 Buonamici, Jean, 47 

 Butt, J. S. on verifying the pofiion »f a 



tranfit inftrument, 53 



Cadel!, Mr. communication from, with a 

 colleftion of memoirs, which have 

 lately appeared at Paris, by the cele- 

 brated Lavoifier, 77 



Calculi, biliary, 376. 



Caledonian, Literary Society at Aberdeen^ 

 163 



Callias, M. on carbonifed turf, 36 



Cnmino, Hugh, on the fungi of Pifa, 371 



Camphor, experiments on with fulphuric 

 acid, 31 



Caoutchouc, or Indian rubber, property 

 of, 305 



Caibonate of lime. Importance of in mi- 

 neralogical refearches, 330 



Carlifle, A. Efq. intended publication by, 

 on the ana;omy of the organs of hear- 

 ing, 440 



Cary's telefcope?, 275 



Caffan, M. 17 



Cataradts and canal of Troelhatta in Swe- 

 den, 39 



Cavallo on magnetifm, 96 



Cavendiih, H, Efq. 16, 227 



Caution, 



