GENERAL INDEX. 



409 



Mineral and earth, new, 290 



Mjueralogical notices, 296 



Mines, argentiferous lead, of Con- 

 necticut, 296 

 Minnesota salt region, 283 

 Mirror?, locomotive, 59 

 Moas. New Zealand, 283 

 Molecular peculiarities of certain 



bodies, 188 



Monoclave, or unitouch, 181 



M on ozymatic condenser, 51 



Moon, determining longitude by the 



altitude of. at sea, 370 



Morphia, in opium, 238 



Motion, converting rotary into re- 

 ciprocating rectilinear, 72 

 Muscular movements, influence of 

 suggestion in modifying, independ- 

 ently of volition, 



Muscle, spiral structure of, 330 



Musical instruments, human voices 



imitating, 



" language, universal, 181 



Naval, dry dock at Philadelphia, 35 

 Navigation, application of the laws 



of storms to, 380 



Nebula 5 , discoveries of Lord Rosse, 362 

 Nervous action, influence of upon 



heat, 339 



New England and Germany, climate 



of, compared, 377 



New York, Crystal Palace in, 

 Nicaragua, Aborigines of, 387 



NIEPCE, M., 159, 165, 167, 



Nile, sources of, 



Nineveh, ancient relics of, 385 



in the Pacific, 384 



rock crystal, lens from, 171 

 sculptures from, 390 



Nitrogen, rain a source of in vegeta- 

 tion, 250 

 Novelties, miscellaneous, 112 

 Observatory, Greenwich, 370 

 Obituary for 1852, 401 

 Oil, apple, 226 

 " bergamot-pear, 225 

 " of bitter almonds, artificial, 227 

 " pine-apple, 223 

 " rosin, 213 

 " " improvements in the manu- 

 facture of, 98 

 Oils, peculiar property of some es- 

 sential, 260 

 Opium, analysis of, 238 

 Optical phenomena, application of 



certain, to ctiemistry, 193 

 " properties of a salt of qui- 

 nine, 146 

 Ordnance, improvements in, 68 

 Organic alkaloids, detection of. 

 Origin of species. 



Ova of Batrachians, fossil, 312 



OWEN, DR. D. D., 290 



OWE>-, PROF., 



Ozone, action on miasmata, 258 



" connection with the weather, 259 

 Pacific, R. R. route, 



Nineveh in, 384 



Paine 's ventilating car, 



Paper church, 



from wood, 85 



" improvements in manufactur- 

 ing, 84 

 photographic, improvements 



in preparing, 160 



" plant, rice, 322 



" value of in architecture, 87 



Papier Mache, 88 



Patents in 1852. 400 



Payen, M., on india rubber, 

 Perfumery, artificial, 222 



Perspiration, analysis of, 261 



Phosphoric acid, determination of 



by molybdate of ammonia, 243 



Phosphorescence of bodies, 194 



Photographs, colored, fixation of, 165 



engraved, 162 



" on glass, 159 



Photography, improvements in, 159 



Photographic paper, improvements 



in preparing, 160 



Piano, Culindron, 108 



Pigment, Zinc oxide as a, 206 



Pile, voltaic, improvements of the, 113 

 PIM, LIEUT. 39 L 



Pine apple oil, 223 



Pine leaves, new use of. 

 Planets, discovered in 1852, 

 Plants, alkalies in, 247 



" absorption of the soluble hu- 



mates by, 248 



influence of solar radiation 



on, 319 



" morphological analogy be- 

 tween the branches of exo- 

 genous plants and the ve- 

 nation of their leaves, 320 

 sleep of plants in the Artie 



regions, 321 



Plant, Chinese rice paper, 322 



" snake, of South America, 324 



Plastering machine, 91 



Platinum, atomic weight of, 189 



in Canada, 297 



Plough, improved form of, 91 



Plug, self-acting safety, for boats, 43 



Poisons, elimenation of, 257 



Poisoning, chemical testimony in 



cases of, 256 



POOLE, MR. BRAITHWAIT, 67 



Potassium, cyanide preparation of, 220 

 Press, new printing, 77 



Presses, new, for baling cotton, 74, 75 

 Prices, reduction of between 1810, 



and 1851, HI 



Products of smelting furnaces, proof 



of geological hypotheses, 

 Projectiles, improvements in, 68 



Propeller, Bomerang, 42 



steamboat, 



Pseudoscope, The, 152 



Quartz, crushing machine, 

 Quinine-iodo, sulphate of, 195 



(juinine, optical properties of a new 



salt of! 146 



Q0ATREFAGES, M., 347 



KAE, DR. JOHN, 390 



Railroad car for grain, &c., 56 



