ADDRESS Το MR. CHARLES TAYLOR AS the representative of Mr. Delaval, whofe distance precludes his perfonal attendance, on the prefent occafion, I deliver to You, in the name of the Literary and Philofophical Society, this Medal, the moft diftinguished mark of approbation, which we have to beftow. To merit the honours of Science, and of the Arts, is a just and noble object of ambition; and to confer them, I am perfuaded, is, at this inftant, felt both as a privilege and a pleasure, by the members of our Inftitution. When you tranfmit to Mr. Delaval the well earned reward of his defert, let it be accompanied with an earnest request, that he will prosecute the researches, he has fo happily begun;" and that he will communicate to this Society the further difcoveries, which his induftry and ingenuity may accomplish. To MR. THOMAS HENRY, JUNIOR. FROM a fage in philofophy, who is above my praife, I turn, with cordial fatisfaction, to one, whofe proficiency in the knowledge of IND E X то тн Е SECOND VOLUME. ABSOR A. BSORPTION, of moisture from the air, in human - Pago 474, 489 67 Alkali, vegetable, remarks on it, by Dr. WALL of nitre, derived from putrefaction Alphabetical Characters, not of human invention 70 75 279 because perfect in the oldest book in the world traced to ONE none 288 Animal Subftances, exhibit colours by the fame laws with vegetables Ancients, their excellence in the arts of dyeing, painting, &c. 192 135 Apelles, ufed colours which dazzled by their brightness 136 Arfenic, its effects upon the colours of glass B. BACON, lord, quoted, on fpeculative philofophy his plan for the improvement of liberal educa- proposals for establishing it in Manchester on the voluntary power of the mind over bodily BELL, Dr. memoirs of 16 30 451 381 Berne, plan of a school there, laid by HALLER 33 BEWLEY, Mr. experiences the uncertainty of an experi- ment on HOMBERG's phofphorus 329 Bile and Blood, experiments on them, to afcertain their colour 193 BLACKSTONE, Judge, on fmuggling, quoted 306 BOYLE, Mr. the modefty of his expreffions upon philofo- Calcination of Metals, proves a ftrong chemical attraction 449 Calcutta, account of the perfons confined in the black hole there Cavern at Paris, account of it 334 484 361, 370 Caravan, Caravan, fupported by gum arabic Caufes of political Crimes, are pride, luxury, idleness, &c. Certainty, of punishment, recommended CHARDIN, Sir JOHN, his account of a mixed metal made in the east Choak-damp, remarks upon Clouds, their colours accounted for Coal, how much confumed at Manchester in a year Collier, confined in a coal-pit feveral days anfwers to queftions concerning him. Colours, always produced by light reflected from white fubftances College, of arts and sciences in Manchester Colouring particles, do not reflect the light other media how procured pure and unmixed with how they act upon bodies Page 487 319 320 56 491 219 496 467 470 196 42 *146 159 163 Comparative View, &c. by Dr. GREGORY, account of it 88 Confinement, folitary, recommended for criminals Copper, white, account of it as made in China, by Cotton Works, rules for preferving the health of the work DANTE, his account of Ugolino Death, by the laws of England made the penalty of |