INDEX. 



Brande, W. T, Esq. his account of a 

 vegetable wax, from Brazil, 14 



Brander, Mr. 50 



Brazil, see Wax. 



Breislak, M. 64 



Brocoli, early purple, culture of, 204 



Brongniart) M. 39, 115, 117,269 



Brownt^ J, H. Esq. 342 



Bucholz, M. his analysis of magnesite, 

 269 



Budding, new and expeditious mode 

 of, .374 



EufFon's experiments in the manufac- 

 ture of plate glass, 54 



Bulbous plants, growth of, 203 



Buxton, Dr. his medical lectures, 80 

 C. 



Caledonian Horticultural Society, prizes 

 proposed by, 237 



Caloric, attempt to explain the phe- 

 nomena of, 1 95 



Caoutchouc, elasticity of, 106 



Cessac, Count De, 9 



Chemical lectures, 240 



Ciffle, M. 59, ^7 



Cinnabar, native, analysis of, 379 



Clarke, Dr. J. his meteorological ta- 

 ble for 1811, 137 



Clock, see Pendulum. 



Coal, useful products from, 332 



Compensation pendulum, 199, 316 



Conductors for lightning, 108 



Cook, Mr. B. on the prevention of da- 

 mage by lightning, 108— On the pro- 

 duction of heat, light, and -various 

 useful articles, from pit-coal, 352 



Cooling of animals exposed to great 

 heat, S61 



Copper, red lamelkr, analysis of, 379 



Copper ores, vitreous and gray, analyses 

 of, 380 



Correspondent, A. on the compensa- 

 tion pendulums of Lieutenant Kater 

 and Mr. Reid,3l6 



Crotch, Dr. his musical lectures, 160 



Cruickshank, Mr. 94, 183 



Cutting, Dr. on vision, 324 



Cuvier,M.39, 115, 117 



Dale, Mr on the strata near Harwich, 

 44 



Dalton, Mr. his theory of heat, 106 



D'Arcet, M. his experiments on glass, 

 60 



D'Artigues, M. 53 — On the devitrifica- 

 tion of glass, 58, 63 



Darwin, Dr. objection to his theory of a 

 retrograde action of the absorbc.:its, 

 189 



Davy, J. Esq. 124, 217 — On the nature 

 of oximuriatic and muriatic acid gas, 

 310 



Davy, Dr. objection to his theory of 

 metallic bases, 106 



Decomposition of water, 87, 90 



Delaroche, Dr. F. on the cause of the 

 refrigeration observed in animals ex- 

 posed to a high degree of heat, 361 



De Luc, M. 94 



Diabetic blood, see Blood. 



Dividing machine, improvements in, 5 



Dolomieu's hypothesis of volcanic fires, 

 64 



Domingo, St. platina ore of, 77 



Downton pippin, a new sort of apple, 

 316 



Drugs, waste of, occasioned by pulve- 

 rization, 9 



Dubizy, Surgeon-Major, 77 



Dublin, geology of the vicinity of, 280 



Echinus lithophagus, a new species of, 

 159 



Edgeworth, Mr. his new invented spire, 

 78 



Edmondstone, Dr. A, on the arcti 

 gull, 78 



Electrical and electrochemical pheno- 

 mena, 90, 216,248, 304 



Electro-chemical decomposition, 90 



Electrum, analysis of, 378 



Ellis, Mr. 89 



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