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INDEX. 



Mimosa Pudica, observations on the 

 motion of its leaves, 76 



Moist air, the chief conductor of ma- 

 laria, 46 



Moisture and heat, effects of their com- 

 bination, 41 



Moles, destruction of, 232 



Montezuma's address to Cortez, re- 

 lative to his ancestors, 359 



Montfalcon, medical observation by, 45 



Moon, on the supposed influence of 

 the, by M. Arago, 222 



Morphia, its extraction from dry poppy 

 heads, 216 



Nantes, 57 



Narcoline, pure, its preparation, 483 



Naval construction, observations on the 



state of the English, 25 

 Naval revision, commissioners of, 27 

 Nitre, peculiar formation of, 205 

 Nitric acid, test for the presence of, 205 

 on a peculiar, by Mr. Phil- 

 lips, 467 

 Northern light, or streamers, described, 



405 

 Notes to books condemned, 97 

 Nubia, monuments of, 184 

 Nugae Canorse, or Epitaph ian Memen- 

 tos of the Medici Family of Modern 

 Times, S29 

 Nugae Chirurgicse, or a biographical 

 miscellany, by W. Wadd, Esq., 329 



Object-glasses of M. M. Chevalier, the 

 aplanatic, 248 



Ohio, the American man of war, 35 



Old system of ship-building, evils en- 

 tailed by it, 35 



Opium, Dr. Hare's test of the presence 

 of, 215 



Orache, varieties of, and cultivation of, 

 by Mr. W. Townshend, 170 



Orchards, and orchard fruit, 271 



Osymandyas, statues of, the Mandouei 

 of the inscription at Karnac, 189 



Oval and elliptic curves, evidenced in 

 the motion of ships, the form of fea- 

 thers, leaves, and fruits, 13 



Ovals, formed into elegant diagrams, 6 



Ousirei, tomb of king, discovered by 

 Belzoni, 1 87 



Owl, the Coquimbo, 494 



Oxalate of lime, existence of its crys- 

 tals in plants, 214 



Oxygen gas, 141 



Paintings, Egyptian sepulchral, disco- 

 vered by Belzoni, 187 



Paper, preservation of it from humidity, 

 198 



I Parian marbles, the, 1 85 

 Passifloras, eatable, 169 

 Pears, five varieties of, from Jersey, 173 



the most celebrated, 426 



Pendulum apparatus, the Milan, 155 

 — experiments on Mont Cenis, 



by Professor Carlini, 153 

 Penitentiary in Westminster, 52 

 Pennsylvania, the extraordinary length 



of this American first-rate, 35 

 Persian monarchs, their names in the 



Phonetic characters of Egypt, 188 

 Peter the Great, anecdote of, 338 

 Petromyzon Marinus, description of the, 



72 

 Petroleum wells, Burmese, 490 

 Pharaohs, dynasty of the, 1 78 

 Philse, inscription on the base of the 



obelisk of, 178 

 Phillips, Mr. Richard, 258 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 



Society of London for 1827, part II. 



contents, 379 

 Phonetic characters of the Egyptians, 



176 

 Phosphorus, crytallization of, 206 



, solutions of it in oils, 206 



, its fluidity at common 



temperatures, 469 

 Phosphoric acid, its singular habitude 



with albumine, 473 

 Physical agents, on the action of, 137 



et seq. 

 Physicians, college of, the new and old 



buildings, 332 

 Physiology, 139 

 Pine apples preserved by removing 



their crowns, 228 

 Pine-cone, enormous, of Pinus strobus, 



from the river Columbia, 191 

 Pitcairn, Dr., his treatment of fever, 332 

 Planting of trees a safeguard against 



contagious winds, 53 

 Plants, on acclimatizing, at Biel, in. 



East Lothian, 164 

 report upon the new or rare, at 



Chiswick, 167 

 Platina, Dobereener's,finely divided,477 

 Pleischel, M.,201 

 Plough, use of the, in excavating canals, 



197 



Polypi, cure of nasal. 232 

 Pomological Magazine, the, 427 

 Pontine marshes, the, 53 

 Pope, cause of the poet's death, 76 

 Porcelain pottery, its analysis by M. 



Berthier, 478 

 Portsmouth dockyard, education of ar- 

 chitects for the royal navy, 26 



Duchess of, admonished by 



her physician, 331 



