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INDEX. 
Water, compression of, 204. 
Water burner, account of the, 350. 
Watts, Dr, his theory of the rainbow, 203. 
Watts, Mr, observations of, on Captain Kater’s experiments on the 
length of the pendulum, 325. 
Weights and measures, new ones proposed, 426. 
Wernerian Society, proceedings of, I 96 . and 407* 
Whale, Greenland, remarks on the size of, 83. 
Whale, skeleton of, discovered in Scotland, 396. 
Whirlpools of the Congo, 21 6 . 
Wodanium, a new metal discovered by Lampadius, 41 6. 
Wollaston, Dr, discovers potash in sea water, 417* 
Wolves of Hudson’s Bay, 423. 
Woods, specific gravity of, increased by immersion at great depths in 
the sea, 363. 
Young, Mr, on the preparation of opium in Geat Britain, 258. 
Yule, Dr, on the distribution of the coniferae, 315. — on the use of 
larch-bark in the tanning of leather, 318. 
Z 
Zamhonis new galvanic pile described, 388. — his improvements on 
the dry pile, 413. 
Zinc, carbonate of, 250. 
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