INDEX 
TO THE 
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS 
FOR THE YEAR 1816. 
A page 
Alburnum of trees, some observations on it, 292 
B 
Babbage, G. Esq. An essay towards the calculus of func- 
tions, - - - « 179 
Bendego , the wonderful rapidity of the growth of plants in - 
the neighbourhood of that river, - - 277 
beautiful organic remains of fishes and vegetables 
found to the northward of it, - - <27 7 
Binomial theorem , a new demonstration of it, - 331 
Brewster, David, LL.D. On new properties of heat, as 
exhibited in its propagation along plates of glass, - 46 
— — — — on the communication of the 
structure of doubly refracting crystals to glass, muriate of 
soda, fluor spar, and other substances, by mechanical com- 
pression and dilatation, - I5Q 
line lens in fishes and quadrupeds, as ascertained by its 
action on polarised light, - - 311 
Bromhead, Edward Ffrench, Esq. On the fluents of 
irrational functions, - 335 
G 
Cipo de Cunanam , a description of a curious plant so called, 
growing between Monte Santo and the river Bendego, 279 
