INDEX. 



fiodies twmed simple, 159 



Born, Baron, 233 



Bostock, Dr. on albinos, 203 



Boswell, J. W. Esq. his description of 

 a capstan, that works without re- 

 quiring the messenger or cable coiled 

 round it to be ever surged, 133 



Botany, important discovery in, relative 

 to the generation of vegetables, 214 



Botfield, Messrs. T. W. aiid B. 1 16 



Boyle, 367 



Braude, Mr. W. 104 



Brodie, Mr, 104 



Brown, Capt. W. extract of a letter 

 froin, 53 



Buchanan, Mr. R. on the warming of 

 • mills and other buildings by steam, 

 316 



C. 



C. on Mr. Furniss's air-tight hinge, 62 

 — On Mr. Murdoch's account of the 

 application of coal gas to economical 

 purposes, 101 — On the doctrines of 

 chance, 121, 212— On the fecula of 

 potatoes, 187 



Calcareous stone, called Thunder Pick, 

 examined, 300 



Capstan, an improved, 133 



Carbonate of lime, new variety of, 359 



Carbonate, compound, of lime, analysed, 

 150 



Carlisle, Mr. 6 



Cattle, diseases of, and remedies, 157 



Chance, doctrines of, 6G, 121,204,210 



Chemical muffles, 273 



Chimneys, machines for cleaning, 170, 

 173 



Chronometers, improvements in, 51, 

 53 



Cigna, M. 280 



Clare, Dr. 66 



Clark, B. Esq. 161 



CI iff, Mr. 104 



Clock work injured byjeweUing, 236 



Coal gas applied to economical pur- 

 poses, 94 

 Cochrane, Major S. on the culture of 

 spring wheat, and the use of tincture 

 of opium in diseases of cattle, 136 

 Collier, Mr. J. his improved ship's 



stove, 337 

 Combes, Mr. A. on the new metals^ 



231, 363 

 Combustion, spontaneous, 46 

 Compensation pendulum, 53 

 Cooke, Mr W. on the decomposition 

 of alkalies, 69— Observations on his 

 paper, inserted in the last Vol. on the 

 new metals, 231 

 Cook, Col. Wm., 316 

 Cook, Mr. B. on the advantages of em- 

 ploying coal gas for lighting small 

 manufactories^ and other purposes, 

 291 

 Cordier, M. on volcanic su'ostances, 



298 

 Corn, Indian, chemical examination 



of, 153 

 Coulomb, 281 



Curvature, observations on the radiu« 

 of, 256 



D. 



Dalton, Mr. his theory of chemical 

 atoms, 87, 164 



Darget's experiments on the sugar-cane, 

 314 



Davis, Mr. his description of a machine 

 for cleansing chimneys, without the 

 aid of climbing boys, 173 — his in- 

 vention to secure the pannels of doors 

 and window shutters from being cut 

 out by housebreakers, 177 



Davy, Mr. on alkalies, 68, 69 — On 

 the decomposition of earths, 159, 

 366— On the new metals, 231, 365 

 — His electro- chemical researches on 

 the decomposition of the earths, with 

 observations on the metals obtained 

 from 



