INDEX. 
Acetite of copper, on its manufacture, 
141. 
Adams’ account of the discovery of a 
mammoth, 219. 
Amber varnish,, on .preparing and ap- 
plying, to wood, 406. 
Analysis, memoir on vegetable and ani- 
mal, 49. 
Anderson, on painting linen cloth in oil 
colours, 92 
Argand’s valve siphon, 20. 
Asses skin, Cummings’ composition for, 
75. 
Atkins’ universal hydrometer, 469. 
B. 
Banks, Sir J. on straw used in straw- 
berry beds, 292. 
Beams of ships, to secure without wood- 
en knees, 376. 
Beckmann’s observations, &c, on stain- 
ing wood, 127. 
Bees, to secure from the ravages of 
worms, 190. 
Bentham, on preserving water sweet in 
long voyages, 59. 
Besant’s water wheel, description of, 
183. 
Bowler’s screw-press, 373. 
Brewer, on dyeing nankeen colour, 435. 
Brown, on converting weeds, &c. into 
manure, 126. 
C. 
Camera lucida, description of, 267. 
Carving in wood, the art of moulding 
417. 
Cayley’s plan for an improved theatre, 
350. 
Chapman, Dr. T. on the preservation of 
bees from worms, 190. 
Chaptal, on making verdigrise, verdet, 
&c. 141. 
natural and artificial puz- 
zolana, 250. 
making soap of wool, and its 
use, 66. 
Cheese, Stilton, method of making, 152. 
Cheshire, method of making, 
169. 
Chemical printing, description of, 203. 
Cloth, linen, painted in oil colours, in a 
mode preferable to that com- 
monly employed, 82. 
water proof, composition of the li- 
quor for, 80 
Clouet’s researches on enamel, 389, 401. 
Colours, painters’, to levigate, 456. 
Committee of public safety, instructions 
by, for purifying saltpetre, 209 
Cook, on the construction of theatres* 
379. 
Copper, to give it the grain and hardness 
of steel, 415. 
Coxe’s observations on the uses of the 
sunflower, 22. 
description of a revolving tele» 
graph, 99. 
improvement in bedsteads, 283. 
Crater of Vesuvius, account of a descent' 
into the, 12. 
Cumberland, on perspective, 255. 
’s files made of stone ware, 
387. 
Cummings’ composition for making 
German asses skin, 75. 
Cuthbertson, on increasing the charging 
capacity of electi*ical jars, 193. 
D. 
Davis’ security for doors and windows*, 
185. 
Dodun, on a factitious puzzolana, 241. 
Dossie, on the edulcoration of fish oil, 
333i 
Drawings from nature, instrument to 
make correct, 265. 
Dutch method of curing herrings, 40. 
E. 
Engravings, engraved title page. 
Argand’s valve siphon, 20. 
machine to raise water, 26. 
Moult’s filtering apparatus, 32. 
Smith’s mode of relieving a 
fallen horse, 34. 
Taylor’s machine for raising 
water, 38. 
head of Dr. Rittenhouse, 80. 
Coxe’s revolving telegraph, 
99. 
Brodie’s method of coating 
iron bars, 110, 
