TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



NUMBER L— JANUARY. 



Preface. • i 



Biograph-ical Account of the Hon. Henry Cavendish ........ 5 



On the Oxymuiiate of Lime. By Mr. Dalton 15 



On Uhnin. By Dr. Thomson 23 



Experiments on the Urine dischaiged in Diabetes Mellitus, with 



Remarks on that Disease. By Dr. Henry 



Analysis of the Water of the Dead Sea. By Klaproth oG 



Table of the Population of the Counties of Great Britain.. .. 40 



Report concerning the Settlement at New South Wales 43 



Account of the Balsna Mysticetus^ or Great Northern Whale. 



By Mr. Scores by 51 



Analysis of the Phdosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 



for 1812, Part 1 55 



On a Compound of Chlorine and Azote , , . 63 



Method of converting Starch into Sugar 64 



On artificial Grasses 65 



On the Constituents of Egg-shells 66 



— — Gunpowder . , ibid. 



Test of the Presence of Alumina in mineral Substances 67 



On Pyrophorus. By Dr. John Redman Coxe 68 



An Improvement of Woulfe's Apparatus. By the same 69 



Proceedings of the Royal Society at their several Meetings from 



November 5 to December 24 inclusive 7I 



Proceedings of the Linn^an Society 75 



New Patents 76 



Scientific Books in hand 78 



Meteorological Tablt^, Oct. 27 to Nov. 24, kept by Luke 



Howard, Esq. with Remarks and Results 79 



Explanation of Mr, Howard's Meteorological Nomenclature , . bO 



NUMBER H.— FEBRUARY. 



Biographical Account of Dr. Joseph Priestley , 81 



On a Collection of Minerals from GreenlancL By Mr. Allan. . 99 

 On Lythrodes, a new Mineral from the North. By Karsten . , HI 



Difierence of Temperature at Stockholm for 50 Years. 1 12 



Experiments on Nicolanum. By MPvL Hisinger and Murray 117 

 Conclusion of the Account of the Settlement at New South 



Wales 12a 



On the Changes of Colour produced by Heat on the Surface of 



Steel, By Sir H. Davy 131 



Observations on Kiaproth's Analysis of the Waters of the Dead 



§ea. By Vr. Marcet. , . 132 



