Index. 



481 



Sviieiic tartar, action of, on animals, 

 63. 



England, population of, at different 



times, 40. 

 Enirlish weights and measures, tables 



of, 452. 

 Epidote, 106, 

 Ether, muriatic, 380. 

 Eudiometer of Fontana improved by 



Cavendish, 11. 

 Evvart, Mr. Peter, on the measure of 



moving force, 462. 

 Explosion at Woolwicb, 377. 

 Eyes of birds, on an organ in, 170. 



F. 



Fat, on the formation of, 309. 

 Felling colliery, dreadful accident at, 



355, 438. 

 Felspar, 103. 



Ferrane, and ferranea, 58. 

 Figurative language, origin of, ex- 

 plained, 462. 

 Fiorin grass, 65. 



Fixed air, experiments on, by Ca- 

 vendish, 8. 



Floetz formations round Paris, 195. 



Fluoboracic acid, ilG. 



Fluoric acid, on the combinations of, 

 209. 



Force, moving, on the measure of, 

 462. 



Formations, on, by Professor Jame- 

 son, 191. 



_ , local, 192. 



Fossils found near Urent-ford, 309. 



Fourcroy, M. de, biographical ac- 

 count Of, 321. 



France, population of, 347. 



French u eigi-ts and measures, tables 

 of, 453. 



Fungi n, 379, 



G. 



Gahn, Mr. 1. G. his test of alumina, 

 67. 



Galvanic electricity, theories of^464. 



Garnet, 103. ^ ~ 



Groses, discovered by Priestley, 92 — 



specific gravity of, 177 — apparatus 



for condensing, 309 — absorption of, 



i)y charcoal, 393. 

 German weights and measures, tables 

 " of, 456. 

 Gieseke, the mineral dealer, account 



of, 217. 

 Gold, oxides of. 144, 



Gough, Mr. John, on vis viva, 464, 

 Graphite, analysis of, 294. 

 Grasses, artificial, 65. 

 Grauen, meaning of the word, 422. 

 Greenland, minerals from, described^, 

 99. 



Greenwich observatory, 4r6. 



Gre} wacke, account of, 420 — altered 



by granite, 420. 

 Gum, liquid, of Botany Bay, account 



of, 163. 



Gunpowder, composition of, 66. 



H. 



Haller, opinion of, about vomiting, 

 430. 



Hamilton, Mr. on the eruption of the 



Suffriere, 222. 

 Hardwicke, Col. on a new plant, 



224. 



Harrison's time-pieces, 405. 

 Heat, effects of, on animals, 394, 

 — — , animal, cbservattons on, 460. 

 Henry, Thomas, Esq. explanation of 



a remarkable effect of lightning, by, 



463. 



— — — — , Dr. William, experiments on 

 diabetic urine, by, 27 — experiments 

 by, on muriatic and oxymuriatic 

 acids, 206 — on the theories of the 

 excitement of galvanic electricity, 

 461. 



Heyne, Mr. on a singular change in 

 the leaves of a species of cotyledon, 

 ,185. 



Hindoos, civil year of, 14. 



Hisinger, W. on niccolanum, 116. 



Hodgson, Ilev. John, account of a 

 dreadful accident at Felling col- 

 liery, by, 355. 



Holme, Rev. John, analysis of arra- 

 gonite, by, 384. 



Home, Sir Everard, on the organs of 

 hearing of the whale, 56 — on the 

 progressive motion of snakes, 58— 

 on the organs of digestion of birds, 

 74 — on the coagulating power of 

 the stomach, 148 — on the eye, 171 

 — on the strtscture and situation of 

 the solvent glands in the digestive 

 organs of birds, 215 — on the nar- 

 wal, 223, 382 — on the formation of 

 fat, 309. 



lioy, Mr. account of the Trschiuriis 



Lepturus, by, 225. 

 Humphries, Col, on a variety of 



sheep, 148. 

 Hunter, Mr. John, opiBion of, about 



vomiting, 431, 



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