Constant de Rebecque, M. ac- count of, 506. Cook, Captain, discovery of his narrow escape from assassi- nation at the Friendly Islands, 355.
Coray, Dr. a modern Greek, no- tice of, 511.
Corn-laws, remarks on, 327. Corundum, Swedish, account of, 258.
Corvorant, crested, anecdotes of, 384.
Côte Rotie, on the wines of, 472. Crystals, See Biot.
Curse, poetic, by Lord Byron,302. Cuvier, M. his eulogies on De- sessarts and Cavendish, 531. Cyperece, on that family of plants, 538.
Dallas, Mr. his vindication of the Jesuits controverted, 269. Damascus, particulars respect- ing, 40.
Dangeau, Marquis de, specimen
of his diary, 515. Decazes, Minister of Police in
France, notice of, 505. Deglutition, observations on, in hydrophobia, 398. Delambre, M. his éloges of Bou- gainville and of Maskelyne, 527. Of Malus and La Grange, 535. Delfau, M. his ascent of the Pic du Midi, 478. Desessarts, M. eulogy on, 531. Diamond, cutting, account of, 49. Dress, obs. on the want of dis- tinction in, among the English of the present day, 360. Dubois, Cardinal, his character, by the Marq. de Dangeau, 517.. Dykes, in the North of Ireland,
observations on, 249.
Earle, Mr. on the influence of the nervous system, 163. Eberhard, J. A., notice of, 459. Edinburgh, history of the Uni- versity of, 415.
Egypt, campaign of the English in that country misrepresented by Ali Bey, 47. Elastic surfaces, obs. on, 536. Electricity, See Poisson. England, opinions of its consti- tution, and of its conduct in the American war, by Dr. Franklin, 22. 135.
Esmark, Professor, on a new ore of Tellurium, 258.
Eton, Provost of, dialogue re-
specting that office, between Henry VIII. and Sir T. Wyatt, 405. Evening-star, verses to, 95.
Farmers, observations on their general capital, 327.
Feder, J. G. H. account of, 460. Ferguson, Dr. his extraordinary case, 164.
Fiji, or Fejee, particulars of those islanders, 345. 348. Finow, king of the Tonga Islands, account of, 341.344. 346.351 -355
Fire, mode of kindling, by a na- tive of the Aleutian islands, 309.
Fire-Worshippers, a poetic tale, character and specimens of,
Fluid, in the brain, &c. obs. on, 396.
Fatus, monstrous, case of, 164. Foot, of the horse, remarks on
the diseases of, 436. Forest, submarine, in Somerset- shire, described, 256. Fox-hunting, allegorical stric- tures on, 362. Franklin, Dr. specimens of his
private letters, 20-28. 133- 139. His religious creed, 25. Frontignan wine, account of, 473. Functions, on the calculus of, Part II. 54.
irrational, on the
Gay-Lussac, M. on Iodine, 538. Geronstere water, at Spa, ana- lysis of, 159.
Glen Tilt, on the geology of, 251. Good, remarks on the power of a man to do good, 23. Goodlad, Mr. on a tumour in the face, 161.
Government, new, not to be formed without faults, 134. A virtuous may be a cheap go- vernment, 135. Remarks on, 521.
Gout, on the effect of Colchicum Autumnale in that disease, 48. On the cooling treatment of, 434. Greeks, modern, on the habits of, 234 Account of two learned individuals, 511, 512. Gregor, Mr. on Tremolite, 257. Gunpowder, improved mode of keeping in Walker's patent barrels, 109. Guyton-Morveau, M. on Pyro- metry, continued, 532.
Hailstone, Mr. on the geology
of Cambridgeshire, 251. Hallé, M. on Vaccination, 539. Heat, observations on, 537. Heerat, description of that east- ern city, 264. Hermitage, account of the wine so called, 472. Hillsborough, Lord, anecdote of, by Dr. Franklin, 27. Hinda, daughter of an Arab Emir, poetic delineation of,
Hippopotamus, account of, 144. History, antient and modern, philosophical views of, 150- 158.
Holland, Dr. on the manufacture
of Sulphate of Magnesia, 52. Home, Sir Ev. on the effects of medicines through the blood,
and on Gout, 48. On the Tad- pole, 52. On the fossil re- mains of an animal, 54. On the feet of animals moving against the law of gravity, ib. Horner, Mr. on the geology of Somersetshire, 255.
Horse, good and bad qualities of, 447. See Foot.
Hottentot, on the anatomical structure of, 162. Hyde-Park, delights of a fashion- able drive in, 364. Hydrocharides, memoir on those plants, 532.
Hydrophobia, cases of and ob- servations on, 397. Hypersthene, account of that mineral in the Isle of Sky, 244.
Ice, at the bottom of rivers, re- marks on, 51. Ice-house, natural, near Besan- çon, 480. Jerusalem, account of its great Temple, 37. Of the city, 38. Jesuits, origin of that order, 270. Their effect on society dis- cussed, 272-285. Jews, estimate of their numbers in the whole world, and con- siderations respecting, 543, 544. Ilderim, his attack on Abdallagh poetically depicted, 372. Inclosure-bill, general, observa- tions on, 216. Insects, new species of, 332,333- Interjection, observations on that part of speech, 86. Iodine, memoir on, 538. Jones, Dr. E. G. on the waters of Spa, 158.
Ionian Islands described, 235. Ireland, on the geology of its N. E. counties, 246. 249. Irish-Inn, dramatic scene in, 317. Iron, native, on a mass of, 50. Ithaca and the neighbouring islands described, 235. Kant,
Kant, Prof. account of his sys- tem of philosophy, 461. Knight, Mr. T. A. on ice at the bottom of rivers, 51. On the action of leaves of plants, ib. Mr. Thomas, on the binomial theorem, 57.
Lagrange, M. memoir of, 535. Lambert, J. H. account of, 460. Language, English, remarks on, 87.
Languedoc, wines of, 472. On
the Mistral, a remarkable wind there prevailing, 476. Larynx, on the ossification of,
Law, good obs. on the study and practice of it by an English barrister, 166. et seq. Laws of England, remarks on, under the allegory of Armata, by Lord Erskine, 366. Leaves of Plants, obs. on, 533. Legs, observations on the cure of wounds in, 433. Lens, crystalline, on the struc- ture of, 53.
Leverian Museum, its dispersion strongly censured and regret- ted, 386.
Life, its delusions poetically compared to the mirage of the deserts, 379.
Light, See Arago, Biot, Brewster. Limnoria tenebrans, obs. on that perforating insect, 333. Lincolnshire-Wolds, geology of,
alogy of Sky, 237. On the geology of Glen Tilt, 251. Magnesia, sulphate of, on its manufacture, 52.
Malus, M. memoir of, 535. Manfred, soliloquy of, 301. Other speeches of, 303-307: Mania, on the traces of it after death, 398. On its nature, 399. Manuscript of Sir T. Wyatt's poems, in the Harington fa- mily, 407.
Marble, statuary, in Scotland, account of, 252.
Marcet, Dr. on the case of Dr. Ferguson, 164.
Marshal, Dr. sketch of his life, 395.
Maskelyne, Dr. memoir of, 527. Massinger, obs. on his plays, and on a selection of Beauties from them, 319.
Maunoir, Prof., on a monstrous fœtus, 164.
Mecca, particulars respecting,
29. Mendelsohn, Moses, account of, 459.
Meteorology, obs. in, 535. Mirage, that phænomenon ob-
served in the kingdom of Caubul, 2, 3. Beautiful poetic comparison of it with the de- ceptions of human life. 379. Said to have been observed in the South of France, 477. Mistral, a curious wind, peculiar to Languedoc and Provence, 476. Mont Blanc, poetically cele- brated by Lord Byron, 302. Monuments, antient, curious - cluster of, in Beloochistan, 261.
Morel, Mr. on a gun-shot- wound, 162.
Mornay, Mr. on a mass of native iron in Brazil, 50.
Mosaic account of the creation supposed to have partially reached
reached the natives of the Philosophy, antient and modern,
Tonga islands, 356. Muscles, See Wardrop.
Natural History, great recom- mendations of the study of,
Nervous system, on the influence of, 163.
Nickel, mode of detecting it in iron, 50.
Night, oriental, poetic repre- sentations of, 375. 379. Nitrat of silver, obs, on its effect, internally taken, of blackening the skin, 165.
Odier, Dr. on the death of Saus- sure, 164. O'Donnel, General, account of, 509.
Oil, its use in stilling the waves, 310. Its specific gravity a great obstacle to swimming in it, 341. Orleans, Regent Duke of, his character drawn by the Mar- quis de Dangeau, 517.
Palestine, description of, 35. Palisot, M. on the leaves and medulla of plants, 533. On the Cypereæ, 538. Paradise and the Peri, account and specimens of that poetic tale, 285-290. Parliaments, annual, shewn to have existed in this country,
Penitence, beautiful poetic deli- neation of, 289. Percy, M. on vaccination, 539. Peri, poetic tale of, 285. Peshawer, account of that city in Caubul, 7. Phillips, Mr. on the Oxyd of Uranium, 246. Philo, obs. on the works of, 453.
Pic du Midi, dangerous ascent of, 477.
Pitch-fountain, in France, de- scription of, 480.
Pitt, Mr. his communications with Dr. Price on the Sinking Fund, 80, 81.
Plants, on the action of leaves of, 51.
Plattner, Ernest, account of, 459. Poetry, by a native of Afghaun, translated specimens of, 13,'14.
of England, before the 16th century, obs. on, and specimens of it in the time of Henry VIII. 124. 129-131. Poisson, M. on the distribution of electricity, 527. On elastie substances, 536.
Pope, documents relative to his
disputes with Bonaparte, 484. Population of Bokhara, 17. Of the principal towns under Ali Pacha, 230.
Pouhon water, at Spa, account of, 159.
Price, Dr. particulars of his life and character, 77. Privateering, Dr. Franklin's sen- timents on, 138.
Pronoun, English, remarks on, 88.
Providence, Divine, observations on the agency of, in particular cases, 438.
Prussia, on the present state of, 520.523. Prussian Edict, written by Dr. Franklin in 1773, his anecdote respecting, 27.
Pudendum, on an affection of, 161.
Pyrola Umbellata, on the diure- tic effects of, 162. Pyrometry, continued essay on, 532.
R Ramond, Baron, his meteorolo- gical observations, 535.
Reform, Parliamentary, Dr. Franklin's opinion on, 21. Reimarus, H. S. works of, 460. Respiration, remarks on the organs of, 537. Revolution, French, observations on its causes, 523. On its al- leged termination, 524. On the employment of persons who had been engaged in it, 525. Richard, M. on the Hydrocha- rides, 532.
Riddle, by Sir T. Wyatt, 409. Rivesaltes, famous sweet wine of, 473.
Roget, Dr. on Nitrat of Silver, 165.
Rollock, Mr. first professor in the University of Edinburgh,
Ruff, account of that bird, and of the trade of catching it, 387.
Salt, remarks on the repeal of
the duties on, 201. Salt-mines of Cordona, obs. on, 258. Sandwich-islands, ready appre- hension of the natives of, 314. A British vessel presented to the King of, ib. Remarks on the probability of their being seized as a colony by some of the European powers, 339. Savings'-banks, obs. on, 336. Saussure, Prof. account of his death, 164. Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, pedigree of the Princes of, 68. Por- trait of the present Prince, 71.
Saxony, history of the Princes of, 64.
Scotophaga Ceparum, characters of that new species of insect, 332. Seton, its use in fractures, 161. Seymour, Lord Webb, on a cli- nometer, 257. Shoeing of horses, remarks on, 437.
Shoulder-joint, case of its re- moval, 163. Sighs, a poem, 96. Sinde, remarkable form of go- vernment of that oriental state, 263.
Skey, Dr. on the structure of Barbadoes, 250.
Sky, Isle of, account of its mine- ralogy, 237.
Small-pox, antiquity and pro- gress of, 72.
Somersetshire, on the geology of, 255.
Somerville, Dr. on the Pyrola Umbellata, 162. On anato- mical peculiarities in the Hot- tentot, 162. Sovereignty, and government,
maxims respecting, 520. Spa, on the mineral waters of, 158. Spar-Cave, in the Isle of Sky, described, 239.
Speech, on the gradual formation of, 85.
Stadion, Count, his intercourse with Wieland, 497. Character of, 498.
Stansfield, Mr. on a fracture of the Os Humeri, 161. Stones, meteoric, obs. on, as mentioned in the Psalms, and by Joshua, 146. Subscriptions for relieving the poor, good obs. on the appli- cation of, 330. Sugar-islands, Dr. Franklin's opi- nion respecting them as colo- nial possessions, 139. Sulzer, J: G. memoir of, 459. Sun, on the nature of that celes- tial body, 435:
Surrey, Earl of, temp. Henry
VIII. particulars of his life, and specimens of his poetry, 113-132.
Swan, wounded, curious physio- logical facts exemplified in the case of, 389.
Swedenstierna, M. on the Swedish Corundum, 258.
Systême de la Nature, probably
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