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SECTIONS. INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



Airy (G-. B.) on a question of probabilities 

 which occurs in the use of a fixed colli- 

 mator for the verification of the constancy 

 of position of an azimuth circle, 1850, i. 



, remarks on the pivots and construc- 

 tion of the large transit-circle for the 

 Royal observatory at Grreenwich, 1850, 

 169. 



on the state and history of the ques- 

 tion respecting the acceleration of the 

 moon's motion, 1859, 29. 



Aitkin (Dr.) on the mechanism by which 

 the blood may be accelerated or retarded, 

 1834, 681. 



*Alcock (Mr.) on taste being dependent 

 on nerves from the spheno-palatine gan- 

 glion, 1836, 124. 



* on the anatomy of the fifth pair of 



nerves, 183G, 124. * 



*Alcorn (Dr.) on the excess of population, 

 and on emigration as a remedy for it, in 

 the Highlands of Scotland, 1840, 186. 



Alder (Joshua) on Eolis, Doris, &c., 1842, 

 69. 



— — on new species of MoUusca nudi- 

 branchiata, with observations on the struc- 

 ture and development of the animals of 

 that order, 1843, 73, 



on a new species of mollusk found at 



Dalkey Island near Dublin, 1843, 74. 



on Pterochilus, a new genus of nudi- 



branchiatc mollusca, and two new species 

 of Doris, 1844, 66. 



on a new genus (Dendronotus) of 



mollusca nudibranchiata, 1845, 65. 



■ on new British species of Mollusca 

 nudibranchiata, 1845, 65. 



■ on some new and rare British species 

 of naked Mollusca, 1846, 83. 



on the animal of Lepton squamosum, 



1847, 73. 

 . on British Mollusca, with descriptions 



of new species, 1847, 73. 

 on two new species of nudibranchiate 



Mollusca, and a new genus (Oithona), 



1851, 74. 

 — — on the branchial currents of Pholas 



and Mya, 1851, 74. 

 — — on some new genera and species of 



British zoophytes, 1856, 90. 



on three new species of Sertularian 



zoophytes, 1858, 126. 



— — on a new zoophyte, and two species 

 of Ecliinodermata new to Britain, 1859, 

 142. 



Aldridgk (Dr.) on the pollen and vegetable 

 impregnation, 1840, 144. 



♦Alexander (Mr.), electro -magnetic tele- 

 graph, 1840, 213. 



^Alexander (Col. Sir J.) on the arts of 

 camp life, 1859, 2co. 



Alexander (Sir J. E.), outline of three 

 expeditions which might be undertaken 

 to explore portions of the interior of 

 Africa, 1840, 121. 



Alison (Dr.) on the vital properties of ar- 



teries leading to inflamed parts, 1834, 



674. 

 Alison (Dr.) on the irritability of muscles 



in living animals, 1834, 673. 

 on the vital powers in arteries leading 



to inflamed parts, and on the cause of 



death in asphyxia, 1835, 89. 

 * on the Scottish system of the manage- 

 ment of the poor, 1840, 185. 

 ** on the destitution and mortality of 



some of the great towns of Scotland, 1842, 



97- 



on the reports of the Poor-law Com- 

 missioners on the state of the poor in 

 Scotland, 1844, 35. 



on the medical relief to the parochial 



poor of Scotland under the old poor law, 

 1846, 97. 



* on the application of statistics to the 



investigation and the causes of cholera, 

 1849, 86. 



on the system of Croft husbandry and 



the reclamation of waste lands adopted at 

 Gairloch in Eoss-shire, and its results as 

 illustrating the conditions under which the 

 labour of paupers and criminals may be 

 made productive, 1850, 147. 



on the law of settlement and the re- 

 moval of paupers in Scotland, 1852, 114, 



— — on the application of statistics to ques- 

 tions in medical science, particularly as 

 to the external causes of diseases, 1855, 



^55- 



on certain a jpriori principles of bio- 

 logy, 1857, 109. 



Allan (Mr.), notice of a magnificent speci- 

 men of aqua-marine, 1831-32, 86. 



Allan (A.) on an improved method of 

 maintaining a true liquid level, particu- 

 larly applicable to wet gas-meters, 1859, 

 228. 



Allan (R.) on the condition of the Hauke- 

 dalr geysers of Iceland, 1855, 75, 



Allen (Capt. W.) on the probability of the 

 River Tchadda being the outlet of the 

 Lake Tchad, 1838, 99. 



, attempt to account for numerous ap- 

 pearances of sudden and violent drainage 

 seen on the sides of the basin of the Dead 

 Sea, 1852, 95. 



— — — on a ship-canal to the East Indies 

 through the Dead Sea, 1852, 97. 



■ ■ on the antiquities of the island Ruad, 

 the ancient Aradus, and on the ancient 

 harbour of Seleucia in Pieria, 1852, 98. 



on levels taken in Jerusalem with the 



aneroid barometer, 1854, 116. 



Allies (J.) on marine shells found in gravel 

 near Worcester, 1839, 70. 



Allis (T.) on the sclerotic bones of the eye 

 in birds and reptiles, 1837, 98. 



on the toes of the African ostrich 



and other birds, 1838, 107. 



— — on the birds of Yorkshire, 1844, 60. 



on some peculiarities in the flight of 



birds, 1844, 72. 



