25. Diccionario, &c. Dictionary of the Portuguese Language. 1 vol. folio.
26. Compendio, &c. Abridgment of the Theory of Limits, or Introduction to the Method of Fluxions, by Mr. STOCKLER, Member of the Academy. I vol. 4to,
27. Ensayo, &c. An Economical Essay on the Trade of Portugal, and its Colonies, by Mr. AZEREDO COUTINHO. 1 vol. 4to. 28. Tratado, &c. Treatise on the Art of Surveying Lands, by Mr. CABRAL. 1 vol. 8vo.
29. Analyse, &c. Chemical Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Caldas, by Dr. Withering, Member of the Academy. Published in English and Portuguese, by Order of the Society.
If any of the more recent publications here enumerated should reach our hands, we shall endeavour to make our read. ers farther acquainted with their contents.
Flora Danica Iconum Fasciculus Vicesimus. Folio. Hafnia, 1797. Sold in London by Mr. White.
HE descriptions which accompany these excellent engravings are so extremely brief, that we cannot pretend to give a very critical account of the performance; especially as it is impossible for us to gain access to the plants which are here represented: but we scruple not to avow our full persuasion that the plates are indeed most admirably executed. The publication of this work commenced in the year 1761; and it has been continued with uncommon regularity, considering the nature of the undertaking, and the accidents and interruptions to which, in a series of so many years, it must naturally have been exposed.
M. GIRARD (Ingénieur des Ponts et des Chaussées) has pubwork, in point of criticism, we are unable at present, from want of time, to say any thing definite: but a superficial glance over its contents, and a hasty perusal of some of its parts, afford us reason to think that it is by no means an unimportant nor an ill-executed work. It is divided into four sections, the first twą of which are purely theoretical; the third contains experiments made on the resistance of oak and fir; and the fourth is particularly destined to theoretical considerations and experiments, relative to the inflexion of bodies supposed to be perfectly elastic, What is written seems to be written with considerable perspicuity, and the experiments apparently have been made with method and exactness. In our next Appendix, we shall be able to give a fuller and more particular account of the work.
To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume..
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
ACID, muriatic, experiments relating to, 42 Nitrous, its use in siphylis, 130. 330. Acid of phosphorus, 557. Öftin, and the analysis of tin or 5, 550. Camphoric acid, 448. 557. Zoonic acid. (See Berthollet.) Acetous acid, 558 Adelung's essays on the English language, 66-69. His in- tended publication of an Eng- lish-German vocabulary, 69. Adet, M. on the acetic acid, 558. Agelet, M. observations of stars,
at the military school, in 1784 and 1785. Par. Acad. 545. Alembert, M. d', eulogium on, 579. Aleppo, journey from, over the great desert, to Bussorah, 305. Amber, acid of, its nature, 563. Anderson, Dr. James, on an uni- versal character, 49. His claim to the honour of priority in the invention of the most approved method of draining land, 169. Atwood, Mr. his disquisition on the stability of ships, 121.
B Balfour, Dr. on the barometer, 306 Bardsley, Dr. his remarks on party prejudice, 47.
Barry, Mr. his observations re- specting the improvement of the public taste, 179. Bayen, M. historical notice of, 556. Ber hollet, M. on sulphurated hy-
drogen, 553. Notice of an acid obtained from animal sub- stances, or the zoonic acid, 554. Blayney, Dr. his skill in Hebrew criticism, 26. His new trans- lation of the book of Ze- chariah, ib.
Bleaching, the process of. See Rupp. Blunt, Mr. his account of the ce- lebrated column, Cuttub minar, 305. Bolingbroke, Lord, (Henry St. John,) his correspondence with several great persons while he was in power, 249-259. Brookboufe, Ann, her plausible
Casarean operations in surgery condemned, 167. Calculi, notes respecting, by Four-
croy and Vauquelin, 565. Camphor of Sumatra, acc. of 301. Cancer, observations on the cure of, 167.
Carnot, citizen of France, his re-
ply to Bailleul's report of the conspiracy, &c. 473. Cage, Mr. his History of Eng- land appreciated, 51. Cassini, J. D. application of the
circle to observe the meridian altitude of the stars, Par.
Acad. 545. Catherine II. Empress of Russia, her dramatic hermitage, 501. Plays exhibited there, written by the Empress herself, and by other persons of high rank, in concert with her imperial Ma- jesty, 502. Extract of one of those compositions, written by the Empress, 503. Cavendish, Mr. his experiments with a view to determine the density of the earth, 126. Chaptal, J. A. on the fabrication of verdegris, &c. 554. On the culture of barilla, 555- the epidermis, ib. On the use of oxyds of iron in dying cot- ton. 556. On the difference between the acetqus and the acetic acid, 558. Character, (written,) universal. See Anderson. See Brown. Chess, remarks on the allusive pc-
culiarities of that game, 354. Letter from the author of the pamphlet on that subject, 473. Church-Bell, poetical address to, 456.
Clairon, Mad. ber memoirs, writ- tep by herself, 519. Curious story of her, interview with Mad. de Seine, a famous act- ress, who had retired from the
stage, 520. Her account of a persevering apparition of a very extraordinary nature, by which she was greatly incommoded, 521. Account of the impres- sion-made on her mind by her first discovery of the diminu. tion of her youth and beauty, 523.
Clarke, Dr. his account of a tu-
mour in the substance of the human placenta, 252. Clarke, Mr. his observations on the intended tunnel-passage be- neath the Thames, from Graves. end to Tilbury, in Essex, 311. Clouet, M. report of his expe riments, 563.
Coelho da Maya, Mr, on Fon- taine's method of approxima- tion, 574.
Colebrook, Mr. his account of the faithful duties of a Hindco wi- dow, 136. Of the Andaman islands, 30z. Of Barren island and its volcano, 303. Of the islands Nancowry and Comar- ty, ib.
Collyer, Joseph, on the distillation of ardent spirit, 42, On iron and steel, 43. Colonists, of all complexions; a well-imagined free settlement of, in Africa, 517. Colour, remarkable change of, in
a negroe, 50. Colours, extraordinary facts re
lating to the vision of, 44. Coote, Dr. his History of England
characterized, 51, Extracts from, 376. His character of Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scotland, 279. His account of the hard fate of the latter, 282.
Copper of Sumatra, 302. Coralof Sumatra, account of, 302. CORRESPONDENCE with the Re- viewers. Mr. Good, on the Shrewsbury house of industry, 119. Dr, Underwood, relative
To his publication on the disor ders of childhood, 120. D. concerning Mr. George. Fors- ter, ib. S. H. W. asserting the existence of black swans, 239. G. T. on the publication of Dr. Mainauduc's lectures, 360. Letter from the author of the treatise on Chess, 478. Farther correspondence with D. on Mr. Forster's travels, 479. Se-
cond letter from General Val- lancey, ib.
Corundum-stone. See Greville. Cotton-tree, Persian, account of, 50 Coulomb, M. on the friction of the points of pivots, Par, Acad. 541 Cow-pox, inquiry concerning, 160. Experiments and testi- monies, ib. Cases of success- ful innoculation of, 161, Dr. , Pearson's additional testimo- nies, 163, Probable improve- ment in medical practice from the substitution of that disorder for the small-pox, 166. Inquiry into the origin of this disease, 167. Curtis, Mr. his excellent FLO-
RA LONDINENSIS completed, 446. His Botanical Magazine praised, 447.
Dalton, John, on the vision of
colours, &c. 44. Deiman, Troostwyk, and Lawren- burgh, on the passage of aque- ous vapour through red-hot tubes, 556.
Delhi, present ruined state of that
once opulent city, 304. De Lille, M. his Garden,' a poem, highly praised, 295. Extracts from, 296–300. Demonax, character of. See Lucian. Dbanesa, or Indian Buceros, a
bird which feeds on the nux
vomica, 307. Diss Mere, analysis of the remark- able water of, 26.7.
F Fabroni, M. his discovery of a violet purple colour, which re- sists acids, &c. 554. Fawcett, Mr. his poem on revi- siting the scenes of early life, 269. Extracts from his miscel- laneous poems, 272. Ferriar, Dr. his interesting ac- count of the establishment of fever-wards in the Manches- ter infirmary, 128. On an affection of the lymphatic ves- sels, hitherto misunderstood, 129. On the use of the nitrous acid in siphylis, 130. His il- lustrations of Sterne, &c. 131. Fever, Dr. Fordyce's 3d disser- tation on, 422. His remarks on the exhibition of opium in fever, 427. On stimulants, 428 Finance, publications relative to, 344, 345, 471. Fish, annually found in Hindostan
in places that were before dry, 369. Attempt to solve this phænomenon, 370. Fisher, Mr. his account of a change of colour in a negroe, 50. Fluxions. See Stockler. Fontaine, on approximation. See Coelho. See Monteiro. Ford Abbey, described by Mr. Gilpin, 398.
Fourcroy, M. on the aroma of ve. getables, 555. His examination of Dr. Pearson's experiments - on urinary calculi, 558. Ex- periments on the congelation of different liquids, by artificial cold, 559
--and Vanquelin, on the spontaneous action of concen- trated sulphuric acid on animal and vegetable substances, 548. Essay towards the history of the sulphureous acid, and its saline combinations with the alkalies and earths, 551. On the ap- plication of pneumatic chemis- try to medicine, 561. On
Mayow's experiments, 562. France, modern, unfavourable picture of, 220. Losses of, in consequence of the revolution, 526.
Franklin, Mr. his account of the
present state of Delhi, 304. Functions, analytic, theory of, 481.
Grotius, just encomium on his law of nature and nations, 187. Guthrie, Mr. his History of Eng- land appreciated, 51. Guyton, M. on a native sulphat, from Saxony, 549. On salt- petre, ib. On the acid of tin, &c. 550. On furnishing wa- ter and heat almost without ex- pence, for chemical experi- ments, 552. Examination of certain properties of platina, ib. Experimente on artificial cold, 559. On the nature of the acid of amber, 563. On the fusibility of mixed earths, 564.4 Report of Clouet's experi ments, ib. Analysis of a crys- tallized quartz, 565.
Hassenfratz, M. his memoir on the proportion of light pro- duced by different combusti bles, 550. On areometry, 554. Hatchet, Mr. his analysis of the
water of the Mere at Diss, 267. Haussman, M. his memoir on the -use of solutions of tin, 565. Heart, human, an unusual forma- tion of, described, 261. Hellins, Mr. his elaborate solu. tion of a problem relative to swiftly converging series, &c.
Henry, Dr. his History of England noticed, 52.
Hindostan, customs and practices of the natives of, 134-136. Ceremony of a widow burning on her husband's funeral pile, 137. Traces of the Hindoo language and literature among the Malays, 301. (See also Wilford.) Mr. Pennant's view of Hindostan, 361. Geogra- phical sketch of, 363. De- scriptions of particular pro- vinces, &c. 368-369. Holme, Dr. his communication to the Manchester Society, relat-
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