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ferences of the mean pressure at Green- 

 wich and Makerstoun, 1850, 7. 



*Broun (J. A.) on electrical figures of dust 

 on plate glass, 1850, 7. 



■ on the effect of height in the atmo- 

 sphere on the diurnal variation of mag- 

 netic declination, 1850, 7. 



— — on the mechanical compensation of 

 the bifilar and balance magnets for va- 

 riation of the magnetic moment with 

 temperature, 1850, 9. 



— — on the construction of silk suspension 

 threads for the declination magnetometer, 

 1850, 10. 



* on the attempts to resolve the pres- 

 sure of the atmosphere into two parts, 

 that of vapour and dry air, 1850, 3 1. 



on the establishment of a magnetic 



meteorological and astronomical observa- 

 tory on the mountain of Augusta Mul- 

 lay, at 6200 feet, in Travancjre, 1855, 25. 



on the establishment of a meteorolo- 

 gical and magnetical observatory at Tra- 

 vancore, at 6200 feet above the level of 

 the sea, with results of magnetical ob- 

 servations at Trevandrum, 1858, 30. 



* , notice of the Kaiiikars, a hill-side 



tribe in the kingdom of Travancore, 1858, 

 148. 



on the semidiurnal and annual varia- 

 tions of the barometer, 1859, 43. 



on results of observations in the ob- 

 servatory of His Highness the Eajah of 

 Travancore, 1860, 20. 



on the diurnal variations of the mag- 

 netic declination at the magnetic equator, 

 and the decennial period, 1860, 21. 



on a new induction dip-circle, 1860, 



23- 



on magnetic rocks in South India, 



1860, 24. 



on a magnetic survey of the West 



coast of India, 1860, 27. 



on the velocity of earthquake shocks 



in the laterite of India, 1860, 74. 



Brown (A.) on the extraordinary flux and 

 reflux of the sea, July 1848, at Arbroath, 

 1843, 18. 



on the fall of rain at Arbroath, 1855, 



30- 



on the fall of rain in Forfarshire, 



1859, 47. 



Brown (John), notice of a gold casting il- 

 lustrative of the state of art in New Grra- 

 nada prior to the conquest, 1845, 78. 



Brown (Dr. R.) on the plurality and de- 

 velopment of embryos in the seeds of 

 Coniferse, 1834, 596. 



Brown (Dr. S.) on the artificial crystalliza- 

 tion of metallic carburets, 1839, 39. 



Brown (S.) on the advantages to statistical 

 science of a uniform decimal system of 

 measures, weights, and coins throughout 

 the world, 1856, 133. 



* on the proportion of marriages at 



different ages of the se^es, 1857, 156. 



Brown (S.) on the financial prospects of 



British railways, 1858, 172. 

 ^Brunel (Sir I.) on the Thames tunnel, 



1841, 106. 



on the Thames tunnel in its com- 

 pleted condition, 1842, III. 



Brunton (W.) on a machine for ventilating 

 coal-mines, 1849, iii. 



Bryce (J.) on some caverns containing 

 bones near the Griant's Causeway, 1834, 

 658. 



Bryce (J., jun.) on striated and polished 

 rocks and "roches moutonnees" in the 

 Lake district of Westmoreland, 1850, 76, 

 112. 



on the Lesmahago and Douglas coal- 

 field in Lanarkshire, 1850, 77. 



on the geoLgical structure of the 



counties of Down and Antrim, 1852, 42. 



* on the disp sition of granite blocks 



in Argyllshire, 1852, 43, 



on the g'acial phenomena of the Lake 



district of England, 1855, 80. 



* on a lately discovered tract of granite 



in Arran, 1855, 80. 



on the discovery of Silurian fossils in 



the slates of Downshire, 1859, 260. 



Bryce (Rev. Dr.), account cf a treatise on 

 arithmetic in the Chinese language by 

 the Rev. Dr. Moncrieff, 1852, i. 



Bryson (A.) on a new instrument for mea- 

 suring the refractive power of minute 

 bodies, 1840, 87. 



on a curious structure in the Silurian 



slates of Peebleshire, 1854, 78. 



* on sections of fossils from the coal- 

 formation of Mid-L.thian. 1855, 80. 



^BucHAN (P.) en Ihe comp sition cf the 

 iron-ores of the Lei trim coal-field, 1857, 

 44. 



Buchanan (Prof. A.) on a method of se- 

 parating, by filtration, the ccagulable 

 lymph from liquid human blocd, 1840, 



75- 



on fibrin e of human blood, 1840, 156. 



on the physiological law of mortality, 



and on certain deviaticns from it, ob- 

 served about the commencement of adult 

 life, 1855, 160. 



en a mechanical process by which a 



life table commencing at birth may be 

 converted into a table, in every respect 

 similar, commencing at any other period 



. of life, 1855, 163. 



Buchanan (G-.) on improvements in valves, 

 stcpcccks or stoppers for regulating the 

 passage cf fluids, 1850, 171. 



Buchanan (J.) on a new locking apparatus 

 for carriages, 1844, 98. 



on ancient canoes found at Glasgow, 



1855, 80. 



Buckingham (Duke of) on the geological 

 structure of the island of Pantellaria, 

 1831-32, 592. 



BucKLAND (Rev. Dr.) on a scale of geolo- 

 gical colours, 1831-32, 592. 



