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Calcium, fluoride of, Dr. Or. Wilson on the 

 extent to which it is soluble in water at 

 60°F., 1846, 38; 1850,68. 



, pentasulphate of, as a means of pre- 

 venting and destroying the grape disease, 

 1853, 46. 



and strontium prepared in the form 



of metallic reguli, by Dr. Matthiessen, 

 1855, 66. 



Calculating instrument invented by M. Slo- 

 nimski, H. Knight on a, 1849, 118. 



machine, Colmar's, 1854, i. 



machine, Fowler's, 1840, 55; 1841, 39. 



machine. Rev. H. Moseley's, 1841, 



35- 



machine, Messrs, Scheiitz's, H. P. 



Babbage on mechanical notation as exem- 

 plified in, 1855, 203. 



Calculi, Dr. Houston on M'Clean's instru- 

 ment for the removal of, 1843, 81. 



Calculus, cases of, treated by lithotrity. 

 Dr. Costello on, 1839, 109. 



Calculus, Icosian, Sir W. R. Hamilton on 

 the, 1857, 3. 



, integral, H. P. Talbot on the, 1836, i. 



of principal relations. Sir W. R. 



Hamilton on the, 1836, 4, 41. 



of differences. Sir W. R. Hamilton on 



a theorem in the, 1843, 2. 

 of probabilities. Sir W. R. Hamilton 



on some investigations connected with 



the, 1843, 3. 



of variations. Prof. Lindelof on the, 



1859, 5. 



Caledonians, on the ethnology and hiero- 

 glyphics of the, by Col. J. Forbes, 1859, 

 178. 



Calico, Mr. Mercer on a method of con- 

 tracting the fibres of, and of obtaining on 

 it thus prepared, colours of much bril- 

 liancy, 1851, 51. 



Calico-printing, on the ageing of mordants 

 in, by Walter Cram, 1859, 258. 



Callidium bajulum. Rev. L. Jenyns on tim- 

 ber attacked by the larvae of, 1847, 85. 



CalHopcea, species of, discovered in Britain, 

 1843, 73. 



Callitriche, Dr. Lankester on the epidermal 

 appendages of the genus, 1850, 113. 



Calorific effects of magneto-electricity, J. P. 

 Joule on the, 1843, 33. 



Calorimeter, new. Dr. Ure on a, 1839, 20. 



Calorimotor for igniting gases in eudiome- 

 trical experiments, and gunpowder in 

 rock-blasting, Dr. Hare on a, 1836, 45. 



Calothrix nivea. Dr. Lankester on the oc- 

 currence of, at Cove, Ireland, 1843, 77. 



Calotypes, Sir D. Brewster on an improve- 

 ment in the method of taking, 1845, 

 10. 



Calurus peruvianus, 1837, 97. 



Calycophyllum Stanleyanum, Sir R. Schom- 

 burgk on the, 1844, 71. 



Cambrian rocks of Bray Head and Howth, 

 on the zoological relatio:is of the, by Prof. 

 Kinahan, 1857, 75. 



Cambrian rocks of the Longmynd, on some 

 fossils from the, by J. W. Salter, 1855, 



95- 



and Silurian systems. Rev. Prof. Sedg- 

 wick and Sir R. I. Murchison on the, 

 1835, 59. 



Cambridge University, statistics of, 1838, 

 170. 



Camera, photographic, improvement in the, 

 by Sir D. Brewster, 1849, 5. 



, binocular. Sir D. Brewster on a, 1849, 



, binocular, manifold, A. Claudet on a, 



1852, 6. 

 obscura and other apparatus used in 



making daguerreotype drawings. Sir D. 



Brewster's account of the, 1840, 9. 

 , Sir D. Brewster on the size of the 



lens, 1852, 5. 

 , solar, A. Claudet on the principles of 



the, 1860, 62. 

 Camp, Roman, at Ardoch, Col. Sir H. James 



on the, 1859, 183. 

 Campanularia fastigiata, a new zoophyte, 



J. Alder on, 1859, 142. 

 Camphor, solid and liquid, from the Dryo- 



balanops camphora. Dr. De Vrij on, 1851, 



Canal through the Isthmus of Suez, on the 



proposed, 1857, 199. 

 lock, new, Mr. Smith on a, 1840, 



210. 

 Canals, Mr. Smith on propelling boats on, 



1840, 209 ; 1844, 98. 

 , Prof. Kelland on the motion of a 



wave in, 1840, 51. 

 , T. Birmingham on the advantages of 



turning them into railways, 1844, 97. 

 Cancerous diseases, R. Carmichael on, 1836, 



112. 

 Candles, made of the oily secretion of the 



Shea butter-tree of Africa, 1846, 90. 

 Canis jubatus of South America, Col. Sykes 



on, 1838, 104. 

 Canna indica, W. T. luff's experiments on 



the roots of the, as to their value in an 



economical point of view, 1847, 85. 

 Cannon, on the bursting of, by S. Smith, 



1858,221. 



, rifled, Capt. Blakeley on, 1860, 201. 



Canoes, ancient, found at Glasgow, J. Bu- 

 chanan on, 1855, 80. 

 Caoutchouc, liquid, on some peculiarities 



discovered in, by Prof. Archer, 1854, 96. 



, Prof. Royle on, 1836, 105. 



, W. Brockedon on vulcanized, 1846, 



113- 

 Capillary attraction, instrument to illustrate 



the effects of, 1831-32, 85. 

 Carbazotic acid. Prof. F. C. Calvert on the 



physiological properties of, 1854, 65. 

 Carbon, atomic weight of, 1839, 49. 

 , H. C. Sorby on the tetramorphism of, 



1850, 62. 

 , R. Rigg on the formation or secretion 



of, by animals, 1844, 33. 



