Index . 
i 
Indelible ink, 320. 
Iron wire, on its manufacture, 147. 
Jury masts, improvement in, 216. 
L 
Lair, on the combustion of the human 
body, 161. 
Lifting ships, method of obviating the 
necessity of, 363. 
M 
Maddering, and dyeing Turkey red, ob- 
servations on, 139, 208, 253. 
Magnetism, effect of in time pieces, 371. 
Manufactories, report on a question rela- 
tive to those which are injurious, 22 
Matches, wooden, for artillery, 46. 
Measures and weights, tables of, 3. 
Moore, on charges of greatest efficacy 
for artillery at sea, 277- 
Mouchet, on the manufacture of iron 
and steel wire, 147. 
N 
Hooth’s apparatus, improvement of, 387 
O 
Oak leaves, in tanning, 240. 
Ox gall, to prepare for painters, Sec. 151. 
P 
Painters, an improved machine for, 454. 
Parker’s machine for shoemakers, 452- 
Patents, observations on, 76. 
American, list of, 78, 157, 234, 
390, 473. 
English, list of, 79, 159, 237, 397, 
480. 
Publications, scientific, utility of, 1. 
u 
Reaumur’s thermometer, 83. 
Refining sugar, new process for, 80, 
Rocks, under water, to blow up 114. 
S 
Saussure’s agenda for a theory of the 
earth, 122, 193, 208, 262, 328, 456. 
Scientific periodical publications, utility 
of, 1, 
Sepping’s method of obviating the ne- 
cessity of lifting ships, 363. 
Shrouds of ships, contrivance for better 
securing, 217. 
Shoemakers, machine for working in a 
standing posture, 448, 452. 
Sick and wounded, a bed and frame for 
conveying, 316. 
Signals by fire, among the ancients, 294. 
Spontaneous combustion, accounts of, 
55, 90, 92, 94, 161, 241, 253, 322. 
1 Spent oil of curriers, 160. 
Spencer’s description of a camp tele- 
graph, 376. 
Spontaneous decomposition of a fabric 
of silk, 323- 
ignition of a carboy of aqua for. 
tis, 326. 
decomposition of the human bo= 
dy, 327. 
ignition and oxydation of iron, 
328. 
Spratt’s description of a homograph* 
382- 
Stove, on the principles of the Swedish 
fire place, 105. 
Sugar, new process for refining, 80. 
T 
Table, a moveable, for engravers, 64. 
of weights and measures, 3. 
of thermometers in common use, 
81. 
of Fahrenheit and its cor- 
respondence, 81. 
of Reaumur and its corres- 
pondence, 83. 
of Centigrade, and its cor- 
respondence, 84. 
of Beau mg’s areometer, and cor- 
responding expression of spe- 
cific gravity, 85. 
Telegraph, historical sketch of, 289. 
description of a camp, 376. 
for signals by land or sea, 382- 
for a reconnoitring party, 447. 
Thermometers, different, and their cor- 
respondence, 81. 
Turkey red, observations on dyeing, 
139, 208, 253. 
U 
United States, account of its manufac- 
tures, 68- 
Vine, culture of the, &c. 131, 178, 270. 
343, 401* 
W 
Watch, to make a nocturnal one from a 
common, 240. 
Weights and measures, tables of, 3. 
Wilkins’ improvement on booth’s appa- 
ratus, 387. 
Wine, on making, 131, 178, 270, 343, 
401. 
Winter, on the utility of scientific pe- 
riodical publications, 1. 
Wire, on the manufacture of iron and. 
steel, 147. 
White thorn, experiments on the growth 
of, 153 
White’s improved file for receipts and 
letters, 453. 
