INDEX. 



1 



Sa'ichaiine fecretions, prize queftions oa, 



184 

 Sails of fliips, conflruftion of, 228. — 



Improved, 229 

 Sand in ftemming mines, 195 

 Saturn, figure of, 41. — Remarks on, 246 

 —Probably known to the Hindoos, 41 S 

 Scarabus, Egyptian, 284 

 Schnaubert, Dr. his method of obtaining 



pure oxide of nickel, 264 

 Scholl, M. his botanicjl miffion to the 



Ifle of France, 50 

 Schopf, M. 50 



Schot, Richard Vander, conveys exotics 

 from Holland to the imperial botanic 

 garden at Schoenbrunn, 47 

 Schubert, M. employed at the obfervatory 



of Peteriburgh, 275 

 Schucht, M. 50 

 Schwenk, M. fale of his gardea at the 



Hague, 50 

 Sciences, moral and phylica), prize quef- 



tion rcfpedting, i36 

 Scientific news, for January, 91— for Fe- 

 bruary, 184— for March, 274 — for 

 April, 369 

 Scottifli fiiheries, 168, soo, 416, 417 

 Seeberg, obfervatory at, 276 

 Seguin co-operated with Lavoifier in e^a- 

 blilhing the modern fyftem of chemif- 

 try, 85. — His opinion on gizzard and 

 gelatine, 205 

 Sennebier, 370 

 Ship, patent, 174. — Corredion of errors 



in the defcrjption, 199 

 Shipping, fmall degree of improvement 



in, of late years, 230 

 ShirrefF, Mr. his method of flacking tur- 

 nips, 268 

 Sinclair, Sir John, his queries and obfer- 

 vations on the. training of pugilifts, &c. 

 vith a view of afcertaining whether 

 they can furnifh any hints ferviceaWe t« 

 the human fpecies, '^09 



Siflbn's theoddlite, &c, 37* 

 Skin, funftionsof the, 312 

 Skioeldebrand, colonel, extraft from hit 

 work relative to the cateraft and canal 

 of Troeihatta, in Sweden, 39 j 



Sky, the, what, 285 1 



Smith, Dr. Adam, his tenets compared 1 

 with thofe of Dr. Quefnay, a prize 

 queftlon, 186 

 Smitfc, Capt. Alexander, &c. 177 | 



Smut in wheat, 113. — Remedied by the 1 

 ufe of lime-water, 117 i 



Societies for fcientific and literary improve- » 



ment, utility of, 163 

 Soemmerring, piofeflbr, on the futures d 



the ficuli, 347 

 Solar fyftem, on the direftiost and velocity 



of the motion of, 59 

 Solar tables printed at Paris, 275 1 



Sonnini, M. on fugar prepared from beets, 1 



268 

 Sorbie, M. on a peculiar Suftuation of 



the river Dordogne, 152 

 Sound, on the means of increafing the 



aftion of, 51 

 Spar, calcareous, converted into marblcj 



342 

 Spark, electric, remarks on, S9 

 Spermaceti, melting print of, 376. 

 Staahl's chemical opinions, 83 4 



Statical lamp with a refervoir for oil, 16 J, 1 



277 

 Steam and air, 283 

 Steekhoven, Adrien, the florift, 47 

 Stelnhauer, Mr. communications fromi 



284 

 Stenna Gwyn foflii, experiments on, 247 

 Stodart, Mr. in anfwer to Dr. Beddoes, 



on the effeft of nitrous oxide, 165 

 Stones, containing fixed alkali, method 

 of analyfing by means^ of boracclc acid,. 

 86 

 Stones, atmofpheric, conjefture that they 



are eleitric fparks on a large fcale, 90 

 Stupiez, Dr. 49 



Sugar prepared from beet-root, a cheap 

 method of obtaining, 267 



Sulphur, 



