710 
Beetle, account of the gum 
Beckes and Jjums, explanation of the 
purase 287 
Beddoes, Dr. explanation of a pas- 
sage of 132 } 
Bedford, account of the statue of the 
duke of 208, 220 
Bees, St. account of the grammar school 
at 295 
Beet-root, sugar extracted from 514 
Behalf, derivation of the word 397 
DLelize, on the banks of 255 
Benefit societies, on the improvement of 
151, 160, 583 
Berkshire, walks in 174 
canal, state of the 555 
Bethlem hospital, new site of 
Bible sociciy at Edinburgh 
Bird produced by a swan anda goose 311 
sacerdotal singing 
Birmingham, capital of the joint stock 
companies at 228 
—, charity school at 336 
, Statue of lord Nelson at 541 
Boat, experiments with a life 233 
description of an ice 5538 
Body, a machine to throw light into 
the 312 
Bones, human made into manure 59 
Book. fanciers, absurdities of 564 
Books, analyses of scarce 46,182, 281, 395, 
; 493, 596 
Ore, 
——- error relative to modern 355 
Bossuet, memoir of 684 
Boston (Lincoln) improvements at 207 
Botanical reports, 121, 258, 345, 444, 550 
Botany, defect in works of 615 
Boulton, M. memoir of 328 
Bourbon, anecdote of the duke of 187 
Bourignon, account of Antoinette 188 
Brazils, mining discoveries in the 515 
Brecon canal, state of the 117 
Brett, enguiry after the writingsof 39% 
Breweries, statement ofthe London 220 
Bridges, on the construction of the 
arches of 170, S60 
Briggs, Henry, memoir of aio 
— —— observations on 363 
" Bristol, improvements at 235,545,644 
Britain, Roman staticns in 135 
state of affairs in Great 425,530, 
623 
British museum, sculptural antiquities 
in the 157 
Bioom, flax procured from 616 
Buller, anecdote of judge 52 
Bucnaparte, particulars respecting 483, 
579 
Burial grounds, on the consecration of 560, 
569 
Butler’s Hore Biblice, errors in 398 
INDEX. 
PAGE 
Calendar, on the thermometrical 480 
Campion’s art of English poesie, ac- 
‘count of 284 
Canal at Croydon opened 533 
-- statement of the Kennet, &c. 554 
Caricatures, rules for drawing 317 
Carlisle, dispensary at 106 
Carlisle’s, Mr. lecture, account of 611 
Carriage, description of an improved 412 
Carriages, on accidents from open 22 
Carrots, efficacy of 512 
Caitme! sands, Lancashire, embank- 
ment of 334 
Castagno, anecdote of 600 
Catarrh, prevalence of 427 
Catenaria, observations on the 170,560 
Cayenne, description of the colony of 9 
Chaff-cutter, an improved 407 
Champignons, fatal effects of 616 
Chaucer’s ghost, a scarce tract so cal- 
co > 
led 596 
Che!tenham, description of 366, S73; 
——-——— improvements at 230 
Chesnuts, various usesof horse 152, 468 
Chester, fair at 108 
3| Chimneys, cure for smoaky 200 
Chimpanzee, anecdotes of the 141 
improvement at 335° 
Chronometer, account of a musical : 
pendulum 270- 
Chronicles, republication of ancient 510 
Church, defence of the established 565 
Ciceroni, account of 499 » 
Cirencester, tornado at I 10v¢! 
improvement at 343 
Clarke, Adam, extraordinary advertise- 
ment of 481 
Clavi cylinder, a new musical instru- 
ment 514 
Clay, Samuel, account of 109 
Clergymen who have left the church 152 
Cloth, improved machines for manufac- 
turing 60 
Coaches, on ventilating stage 21 
Coachmen, frauds committed by 257 
Coal- cuciuial in Staffordshire 35, 266, 384, 
© 462 
mines, how to correct the damp 
in _ | $69, 572, 580 
Cocks, improvement in the construction 
of 200 
Cocoa-tree, description of the $2 | 
Cockney dialect, on the 173 
Coins, account of ancient 61, 225, 432, 
. 617 
Coke, an improv ement in burning 408 
Common council, resolutions of the 271 
Commercial reports 118, 240, 341, 442, 
547, 648 
Commons, reform in the representa- ' 
tion of the 22, 15%, 254, 3'75, 482, 580 
Consecration, 
