INDEX. 



Caution to operators in cJiem'cal experi- 

 ments, 235 



Celtic academy, difcovery of an univer- 

 fal language, by a member of the, 91 



Chaptal's " Eicmens de Chimie,'" eictrafts 

 from, 144 



Charras, his opinion on combuftion, 82 



Chemical refearches recommendeii to phy- 

 ficians, 245 



Chemiftry, modern theory of, cb.imed by 

 Lavoifier as his own exclufive difcovery, 

 2i. — Examination of the juftice of his 

 claim, 85 



Churchill, Mr. reference to his paper in 

 vol. XI. 120 



Clofe, Mr. on the ufe of fand in flem- 

 ming mines, &c. 192 



Clouer, M. on the condcnfatlon of ful. 

 phureous acid gas by preffure, 43^ 



Cobalt feparated from nickel, 261 



Cocq, M. his difcovery of pirite in the 

 diftrift of Puy-de-Dome, aia 



^irevox's bronfe ftatue of Louis XIV. 

 129 



Coleoptera of Saluzzo, 371 



Comet feen in Dacember lad, 55 



Compafs, magnetic, table of the errors 

 produced in by the proper magnetifm of 

 the (hip, loi .—Table of obferved va- 

 riations of, and of the influence of the 

 fliip's pofition upon them, 106 



Compreilion, effeflrs of, in modifying the 

 adion of heat, 3:8 



Concretions, falivary, 374. 



Condamine, M. his account of the Fero- 

 rocUf or fudden influx of cJve river 

 Amazons, 154 



Confumption, pulnienary, 371 



Contrivances for confining elaftlc fub- 

 ftances at high temperatures, 335 



Coptic MSS. in the Berghefe mufeum, 92 



•Correfpondent, a, on the means of in- 

 ereafing the adlion of found on the or* 

 gaui of fuch as are partially deaf, 51 



Coulomb's memoir on the effeft of heat 

 on magnetifm, 188 



^owan, Mr. on the conftruftion of fails 

 •t ffcips an4 vcrtcis, 228 



Crab-fi/h, fee Scottlih fiflierle?. 



Crawford, Dr. 306 



Crombie, Mr. on literary focietles, ,^1:63* 



—Reference to, 203 

 Cruickfhanks, Mr. 227 

 Curaudeau's method of purifying oil, 150 

 Cyprinus Idus, 371 



D. 



D. A. on a fpontaneous decompofitlon of 

 nitrous acid, &c. 438 



Dalrymple, Mr. 22 



Dalton, Mr. his experiments on water 

 expofed to freezing mixtures, 190, 19I, 

 317 — On elaftlc fluids, 278.— On the 

 abforption of gafes by water, &c. 29 1. 

 —On the proportion of thefeveral gafes 

 conftituting the atmofphere, 430 



Davy, Mr. his difcovery relative to tanmn» 

 36.— His method of analyzing ftones, 

 86 — Extraft from his « Chemical Re- 

 fearches," 136 



Deafnefs, partial, on the means of alle- 

 viating, 51 



Debilities relieved by gafeous oxide of 

 azote, when Bath and other mlnertl 

 waters had failed, 13 



Debuc's memoir on acetic acid, report of^ 

 42. — His theory erroneous, 45 



De Loche, Fr. Mouxy, 371 



Delambra, M. 188.— Hisfolar tables, 175 



De Luc's &bfervations on the expanfion of 

 water, 378. 



Denfity of water, inveftigatlon refpeftlng, 



377. 

 Defcotils, M. his experiments on platlna, 



121 

 Diameter, enlarged of the fun and moon, 



when viewed in or near the horizon, 



^H 

 Difcleri's entomological obfervatlong, 371 

 Dlfpan, M. on the infpiration of gafeous 



oxide of azote, 354 

 Dog- fifh caught on the coaft of Scotlani 



for foodj for oil, and for its (kin, 169 

 Dordogne, thepeculiarllmSuation of, ij* 

 b 2 D9wn6 



