INDEX 
Gases , on the effects of the mixture of different gases in ex- 
plosion and combustion, - - - 58 
Gastric glands, notice taken of a peculiar structure in thos e 
of the Java swallow, - 335 
observations on those of the human stomach, 
and the contraction which takes place in that viscus, 347 
Glossopora, a name given to a new genus of animals hitherto 
retained in the genus hirudo, - - 339 
— — - — character of this genus, - - 340 
Gout , farther observations on the use of the colchicum au- 
tumnale in that complaint, - - - 262 
H 
Hatchett, Charles, Esq,. A description of a process by 
which corn tainted with Must, may be completely purified, 36 
Helix janlhina, deposits its ova upon its own shell, - 299 
Kerschel, Sir William, Knt. Guelp. Astronomical 
observations and experiments tending to investigate the 
local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to 
determine the extent and condition of the milky way, 302 
Hirudo complanata, and hirudo stagnalis, observations on 
those animals, now formed into a distinct genus under the 
name Glossopora, - 339 
■ vulgaris , observations on it, - - 13 
— their mode of propagation, - - 14 
Home, Sir Everard, Bart. An account of the circula- 
tion of the blood in the class Vermes of Linnaeus, and the 
principle explained in which it differs from that in the 
higher classes, - - - - 1 
— — — — — * — — • An account of some fossil re- 
mains of the rhinoceros, discovered by Mr. Whitby, in a 
cavern enclosed in the limestone rock from which he is 
forming the Breakwater at Plymouth, - - 176 
on the passage of the ovum 
from the ovarium to the uterus in women, - 254 
— , farther observations on the 
use of the colchicum autumnale in gout, - - 262 
■ — — — The distinguishing charac- 
ters between the ova of the sepia and those of the vermes 
stacea that live in water, explained,, - - 297 
- — - - - — — - Some account of the nests of 
