INDEX. 
L P a g* 
Landen, Mr. John, his memoir on the hyperbola and 
ellipses, referred to, - - - - - 111 
Lecture , the Bakerian, ------ l 
the Croonian, - - - - - 36 
— Addition to it for the year 1810, - - 2 07 
Liquors, Spirituous , the quantity of alcohol they contain, 346 
Lussac, Gay, and Thenard, their discovery of the peroxides 
of potassium and sodium noticed, - - 4 
M 
Macartney. James, Esq,. His account of an Appendix to 
the small intestines of birds, - 257 
Marcet, Dr. His letter to Dr. Wollaston on the subject 
of diabetes, - 106 
His analysis of muriate of soda referred to 16 , 174 
Maskelyne, Dr. His astronomical observations on the moun- 
tain of Schehallien referred to, - - 347 
Metals , common. On their combinations with oxygene and 
oxymuriatic gas, - - - -22 
Minium, native , addition to the account of it, inserted in the 
Philosophical Transactions for 1806, - - 1 7 7 
Multinomials, on the expansion of any functions of, - 49 
N 
Nebula, of such as have a cometary appearance - 306 
— of planetary, - - - 317 
— — - — of stellar, - 325 
Nebulosities, observations of, never before published, 273 
O 
Observations, Astronomical, relating to the construction of the 
heavens, arranged for the purpose of a critical examination, 
the result of which appears to throw some new light upon 
the organization of the celestial bodies, - - 269 
Oxides, metallic, on the action of oxymuriatic gas on them, 25 
Oxygene , on its combinations with the metals from the fixed 
alkalies, - - 2 
