INDEX. 



Lartigue's map of America, in relief, 

 188 



Lavoifier, 227.— His colledrion of me- 

 pioirs, 77.— -Tranflation of that where- 

 in he claims the modern theory of che- 

 miftry for his own, 81 



Laugier, M. 240 



i.ehman, M. his niethod of obtaining 

 pure nickel too expend ve for geperal 

 adoption, 266 



Le vHongre's fiatue of Louis XIV. 129 



Lemerj's opinion on combuftion, 82 



Le Moine's ftatue of Louis XV. 129 



Level of the fea, its utility in naenfuration 

 of heights on land, 218 



Levels of the whole furface of France, 

 memoir on, 217 



Lewis, Capt. his expedition up the Mif- 

 fouri, r88 



Library at Aberdeen, 203 



Lightning not the caufe of fairy rings, 2 



Literary Society at Perth, intended pub- 

 lication by, 202 



Lock, afecretone, with 6561 yariations, 



158 



Lungs, their office, 312 

 Lufljington, Wm. Efq. 176 



M, 



Mc. DonaM, Dr. on the formation and 

 death of bones, 408, 413. 



Madder root, effedt of, on the bones of 

 nimals, 406. 



Mauifon, Right Rev, .B'fiiop, on the 

 mammoth, or American eleoharit,. 358 



Magnetifm, 96 



Mammoth, obfervations on, 358 



Manufcripts, Coptic, 9s 



Marter, profeflbr, his refearches for cu- 

 rious plants to enrich the imperial bo- 

 tanic garden, 49 



Martin, Mr. on the probability that mu- 

 riatic acid is compofed of oxigen and 

 hydrogen, 237 



Mafcarer, a peculiar movement of the 

 waters of the river Dordogne, i^a 



Malkelyne's table of proper motions of thft 



ftars, 59, 6i 

 Maurice's antiquities, extraft from, o.n 



the probability that the Hindoos wci« 



acquainted with Saturn's ring, 418. 

 Maaeline's ftatue of Louis XIV. 129 

 Medicine, ftudy of, recommended to men 



of fcience, not dependent on their pro- 



feffion, 14 

 Melancholy madnefs, not to be relieved by 



the infpiration of gafeous o^xide of azote, 



as propofed by Dr. Pfaff, 11 

 Memoirs, colleflion of, part of a work 



which Lavoifier left unfinifhed, 77 

 Mercury, deliagtation of by galvanifnj» 



375- 

 Mercury, prufliate of, a tcft of palladium, 



126 

 Metallic oxides, revived precipitates from 



alkaline foiutions of, 1&7 

 Meteors, perhaps, eieftric fparks, 90 

 Mineral kingdom, ancient revolutions in, 



328 

 Mineral fubftance found in Cornwall, for- 

 merly fuppofed Iso be zeolite, experi« 



ments on, 247 

 Mining, improvements in, 19a 

 Miiletoe employed in pharmacy, 145 

 Moir, Rev. Dr. 200 

 Molineux, Dr. Thomas, 361 

 Moll, IVI. 49 

 Moage, M. on the condenfation of fal' 



phureous acid gas by preflure^ 236 

 Moon, horiiontal, 284 

 Morand's experiment on the efFeft of 



madder root in ftaining the bones of 



animals, 406. 

 Morichinl's aflertion that the enamel of 



the teeth contains Huoric acid, refuted, 



"4 ,-.., 



Morveau's diflertation on phloglfton, 83 

 Molkow obfervatory, 275 

 Motions of ftars, 60 

 Moyes, Dr. his experiment of conveying 



found to 3 diftance, 53 



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