INDEX. 
Home, Sir Everard, Bart. Observations on the functions 
of the brain, _ _ _ _ 
Some account of tlie fossil re- 
mains of an animal more nearly allied to fishes, than to 
any of the other classes of animals, 
— On the influence of the nerves 
upon the action of the arteries, 
I 
Iodine and oxygen^ on the triple compounds containing them, 
Iodine^ experiments and observations on it, 
— on the acid compounds of it, 
on the action of some compound gases on it, 
on the mode of detecting it in combinations, and on 
certain properties of its compound with sodium, 
lone^ a name given to a new substance which becomes a violet 
coloured gas by heat, - - - 
• considered as an undecompounded body, 
Ivory, James, M. A. A new method of deducing a first ap- 
proximation to the orbit of a comet from three geocentric 
observations, - - - - 
K 
Kater, Captain Henry, Brigade Major. Further ex- 
periments on the light of the Cassegrainian telescope com- 
pared with that of the Gregorian, 
An improved 
method of dividing astronomical circles, and other instru- 
merits, « - » _ - 
Kidd, John, M. D. Observations respecting the natural pro- 
duction of saltpetre on the walls of subterraneous and other 
buildings, - - - » 
Konig, Charles, Esq. On a fossil human skeleton from 
Guadaloupe, - - - - 
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Lights on the affections of it transmitted through crystallized 
bodies, ----- 
on its depolarisation, _ . - 
on its polarisation by oblique transmission through all 
bodies, whether crystallized or uncrystallized, 
— a table shewing the angles at which it is polarised by 
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469 
571 
583 
487 
lb, 
498 
503 
504 
91 
89 
121 
oblique refraction through difi’erent numbers of plates. 
231 
419 
508 
107 
187 
199 
219 
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