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Alta Gràcia, (a Capuchin mission in Spanish Guayana,) plan of, America, scientific expedition into the interior of, 188-Descrip- Angostura, journal of an excursion from, to the Capuchin mis- Ants, utility of, in destroying venomous insects, 174, 175. Astronomy, progress of, in Germany for 1818, 84-95-Prize Atmosphere, description of a new hygrometer, for measuring the Aurora Borealis, remarkable, notice of, 357, 358. B: Bath, notice of a proposed scientific institution at, 190, 191. Berzelius, (M.) on the analysis of euclase, 171, 172. Bismuth, beneficial effects of the white oxide of, in a severe dis- Bladder, on the production of calculi in, 205-Nature of them, Bleaching, notice of discoveries in the art of, 14. Braconnot (M.) on the conversion of ligneous matter into gum, Brande (T. W. Esq.) on the medico-chirurgical treatment of cal- Britain (Great) and France, comparative table of the extent, po- C. 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