SECTIONS. 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



Abacus, chemical, Dr. D. B. Reid's notice 

 of a, 1839, 65. 



Abdomen, Six D. J. H. Dickson on enor- 

 mous hydropic distension of the, 1842, 

 83. 



Abdominal viscera, Dr. R. M'Donnell on 

 the valvular apparatus connected with the 

 vascular sjstem of certain, 1857, 115. 



Abel's argument respecting equations of the 

 fifth degree, Sir W. E.. Hamilton's ex- 

 position of, 1837, I. 



Abies and Pinus, Capt. Cook on the genera, 

 1838, 117. 



Abrothallus, Dr. W. L. Lindsay on the genus, 

 1856, 88. 



Abscess of the lungs, Dr. Barnes on, 1838, 

 134. 



, hepatic, Sir D. J. H. Dickson on cases 



of, 1841, 81. 



Absorption, Dr. Carson on, 1836, 119. 



, Dr. Handyside on the office of lacteals, 



lymphatics, and veins in the function of, 

 1835, 92. 



of light by coloured media, Sir J. 



F. W. Herschel on, 1833, 373. 



Acalepha, notice of a new species of, named 

 Apolemia Gettiana, 1843, 76. 



Acalephse, R. Patterson on the, 1840, 

 142. 



, British, Prof. E. Forbes on the, 1846, 



84. 



, J. Price on the quasi-osseous system 



of the, 1846, 87. 



, Prof. J. H. Corbett on the, with 



respect to organs of circulation and respi- 

 ration, 1856, 91. 



, hydrostatic, Prof. T. II. Huxley on 



the anatomy of the, 1851, 78. 



Acanthodes antiquus, new species, from the 

 lower old red sandstone, 1859, 116. 



Mitchelli, a new species of ichthyolite, 



1860, 77. 



Acari, Prof. AUman on the structure of the 

 larva of certain, 1847, 74- 



in mica. Sir D. Brewster on the exist- 

 ence of, 1855, 9. 



Acarus that attacks grasses, J. Hardy on an, 

 1850, 124. 



Accadian language, Rev. Dr. E. Hincks on 

 the, 1860, 156. 



language. Rev. Dr. E. Hincks on the 



relation between the, and the Indo-Euro- 

 pean, Semitic, and Egyptian languages, 

 1857, 134. 



Acetates, J. Mercer on the solvent power of 

 solutions of, 1844, 32. 



Acetic acid, table of the proportions of 

 anhydrous acid in, by A. van der Toorn, 

 1834, 571. 



acid, Prof. T. Thomson on its manu- 

 facture at Glasgow, 1840, 62. 



and nitric acids, Dr. J. H. Gladstone 



on a method of analysis applicable to the 

 quantitative estimation of, 1854, 68. 



Achatina turrita, 1837, 100. 



Achromatic combinations, double, A. Clau- 



det on a changing diaphragm for, 1859, 



62. 



microscope, A. Pritchard's, 1835, 



112. 



object-glasses, D. Dick on the con- 

 struction of, 1834, 593. 



Achromatism of the eye. Rev. Prof. Powell 

 on the, 1833, 374; 1834, 548. 



of a double object-glass. Prof. Stokes 



on the, 1855, 14. 



Acid, acetic, 1834, 571 ; 1840, 62 ; 1854, 

 68. 



, anhydrous, table of the proportions 



of, in acetic acid, by A. van der Toorn, 

 1834, 571. 



, arsenious, J. Stein on a method of 



separating arsenic acid from, 1850, 62. 



, arsenious and sulphuric. Dr. Schaf- 



haeutl on a new compound of, 1840, 69. 



, boracic, Mr. R. Warington on its pro- 

 duction by volcanic action, 1854, 76. 



, butyro-limnodic, 1852, 35. 



, carbonic, its non-production by plants, 



1837, 58. 



-■ , carbonic, quantity of, in the atmo- 

 sphere, 1834, 583. 



, carbonic, thrown off from the lungs, 



1840, 87. 



, carbonic, R, Addams on an apparatus 



for solidifying , 1838, 70. 



, carbonic, absorption of, by sulphuric 



acid, 1848, 61. 



, chloro-arsenious, and some of its 



compounds, 1858, 69. 



, chromic, pure, Dr. Dalzell on the 



economical preparation of, 1859, 68. 



