INDEX, 



MunaCic acid, experiments with, 137.— • 

 Probably compofed of oxigen and hy- 

 drogen, 237 



Muriatic acid gas, oxigenated, experiments 

 upon, 234 



Mufchenbroek's pyrorneter, 37Z 



Nairne's marine barometers, 56 



Natutal habits of infancy, youth, Sec. 

 310 



Needle, magnetic differences in, 100 



Nevjl, Mr. on long preferved vegetable 

 bodies, 360 



Nickel feparated from cobalt, 261 



Nitric acid, produftion of, 40 



Nitrogen condenfed upon lime produces ni- 

 trate, 233.— With gafeous oxide of car- 

 bon giv£s nitrous acid, 234.— The caufc 

 of explofions, 234 



Nitrous acid, fpontaneous decompofition 

 of ammonia, 439 



Nitrous oxide, effefts produced by its be- 

 ing refpired, 165 



N. L.'s notice of an important publica- 

 tion intended by the Literary and Anti- 

 ousrian Society at Perth, 202 



Northmore, Mr. on gafes obtained from 

 water, 225. — On condenfed gafes, 233 



Nutrition, a general procefs, 310 



Obfervatory at Bavaria, 274. — AtMolkow, 

 275. — At Seeberg, 276 



<' Obferver, an," on Dr. Herfchell's fi- 

 gure of ^turn, 246 



Oil, method of purifying, 150 



Oil cifterns, analyfis of the loul air con- 

 tained in them, 238 



Okely, Dr. on the horizontal moon, 2S4 



Olbers, Dr. n8 



Organic difeafes, confide rations on, 309 



Ofmium, extricated from platina, 119 



Offificatlon, its progrefs and compJetionji 



344 

 Oxidation, intermediate terms of, 365 

 Oxigen gas, efficacious in removing a oar-^ 



ticular kind of palfy, i^ 



P. 



pachionl's opinion of the compofition of 

 muriatic acid controverted, 137. -^fa. 

 fervations on his experiments, 224 



Paiadium, 11 7. -^Separation from platina, 

 122. — A fimple metal, 124.— Proper- 

 ties of, 125, — Conducing poweis, as 

 to heat, 127.— Rate of expanfion by 

 heat, 127 



Palamedas de Suffren on the motion of the 

 hairs of the hypnum adiantoides, 371 



Palfy relieved by the ufe of gafeous oxide 

 of azote, 12 — and by oxigen gas, ib. 



Pal 'as, pr-ifeflbr, 359 



Parallel rule improved, 19 



Parmentier, M, on a varni/h for glazing 

 cups, in much repute at Genoa, 327 



Peas, fhower of at Landfchut, 91 



Periodical publications, utility of, yz 



Permutation and combinations, 370 



Perrole's experiments in acouftics, 52 



Perronnet, M. 220 



Perth Literary Society, notice of apubli- 

 cation intended by, 202 



Peyroufe, 17, 56 ', 



Pfaff, Dr. onrefpiration, II 



Phenomenon, a ftriking one, in an ex- 

 periment for confining elaftic fubftances 

 at high temperatures, 338 



Philofophical Society, projefted at Aber- 

 deen, 164 



Phlogifton, difficulties of the theory of, 



83 

 Phofphorus will not fire in condenfed air, 



234 

 Pia, M. on the efficacy of dried gizzar4 



as a febrifuge, 205 

 Pidet, M. 274 

 Pignotti, M. 137 



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