INDEX. 
413 
Meteoric stone of Juvenas analysed, SSQ. 
Meteorological observations at Port Antonio, 255.. 
Meteors, &c. on the 25tl> December 1821, 182. 
Mica, analyses of different kinds of, 185. 
Minimum squares, method of 292. 
Moon, curious appearance in the, observed at the Cape, 884. 
Mural circle, on the derangelnent of the great one at Greenwich, 383. 
Murray, Mr John, on a species of earthy matter spontaneously com- 
bustible, 105 — on hydrocyanic acid and opium, in reference to 
their counter poisons, 124.— -on the physioloav of the root in 
plants, 328. 
N 
Natron Lakes of Hungary described, 259- 
Nepaul Plants, description of two new genera of, 82. 
Nitrate of soda discovered in Peru, 184. 
Nitrogen springs in New- York, 387. 
Nutation, on the solar, 380. 
O 
Oil for watch and clock work, 1 89- 
Opals of Hungary, 332. 
Opium, on the antidotes against, 124. 
Oxygen in rock crystal, 1 86. 
P 
Pappus, on the MSS. in Great Britain, containing the mathematical 
collections bf, 56, 219. 
Parrot, on the history of the, 398. 
Pastes, artificial, on the fabrication of, 370. 
Patents, list of, in Scotland, 193, 406. 
Paukgan, account of a map of the vicinity of, 230. 
Peiidulum Clocks, history of the invention of, 35. 
on the length of the, at Madras, 383. 
Perturbations of the new planets, 176. 
Peschier’s analyses of different kinds of mica, 185. 
Phosphorescence of the sulphates of Quinina and Cinchonina, 180. — 
of the sea, 401. 
Pitchstone of Saxony, 267. 
Platina, properties of, when it forms an alloy With steel, 354. 
Plumbago from cast iron, 197 , 39 1 . — from North Carolina, 394. 
Polarisation of light by reflexion, on an experiment depending up- 
on it, 146. — laws of, in rectangular plates of glass, 178* 
Polempniaceoc, on the natural family of plants So called, 283. 
of places determined astronomically, 174 . 
Prevost and Pumas, MM., on the globules of blood in different ani- 
mals, 190. — on spermatic animals, 247. 
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, l63, 379. 
— of the Wernerian Natural Plistory Society, l65, 379^ 
; of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, I67. 
Puddling Furnaces, improvements on, 369 . 
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