INDEX TO VOL. II. 



Abel, F. A., on the Application of 

 Chemistry to Military purposes, 283. 



Acoustic Experiments, 441. 



Actonian Prize of 1858— Subject an- 

 nounced, 1 ; No Award, 526. 



Airy, G. B., Pendulum Experiments 

 at Harton, 17. 



Aluminium, specimens exhibited, 79, 

 85 ; Kev. J. Barlow on, 215. 



America, North, Physical Geography, 

 167, 522. 



Ammonia, on, 274. 



Annual Meeting in 1855, 98 ; in 1856, 

 254; in 1857, 421 ; in 1858, 524. 



Apes, Anthropoid, 26. 



Aphides, on, 535. 



Appert's Mode of Preserving Food, 77. 



Aquariuin, 403. 



Ashby, Rev. J. E., on Catalytic Ac- 

 tion, 66. 



Assyrian and Babylonian Excava- 

 tions, 143. 



"Astronomy and Photography, 462. 



Atlantic Telegraph, 401. 



Austen, 1?. Godwin, on Coal in South 

 of England, 511. 



Balloon Ascent, 437. 



Bank Notes, on Manufacture of, 263. 



Barlow, Rev. J., on Application of 



Chemistry to the Preservation of 



Food, 72. 



— on Aluminium, 215. 



— on Woody Fibre and Parchment 

 Paper, 409. 



.— . on Mineral Candles, &c., manu- 

 factured at Belmont and Sherwood, 

 506. 



Bell, Great, of Westminster, 368. 



Bells, List of, 384. 



Belmontine, 507. 



Bradbury, H., on Nature-Printing, 106 



— on Bank Notes, 263. 



— Present from, 147. 



on Printing {no abstract), 534. 



Branson, Dr. F., Nature-Printing, 112. 



Brett, J. W., on the Submarine Tele- 

 graph, 394. 



Buckle, H. T.,on Influence of Women 

 on the Progress of Knowledge, 504. 



Calvert, F. C, on Chevreul's Laws 

 of Colours, 428. 



Canada, Geology of, 522. 



Candles, Mineral, &c., 506. 



Carpenter, Dr. W., on the Rhizopod 

 type of Animal Life, 497. 



Catalogue of Library, New, 446. 



Catalytic Action, on, 66. 



Cattle of Britain, 259. 



Charcoal, a sanitary agent, 53. 



Chaucer's Life and Works, 248. 



Chemistry. See Ahel, Ashby, Barlow, 

 Faraday, Frankland, Gladstone, 

 Hofmann, Jones, Malone, Odiing, 

 Play/air, Roscoe, Stenhouse, War- 

 ington. 



Chemistry, Military, 283 ; Agricultu- 

 ral, 289 ; of Light, 223. 



Chevreul, M., Laws of Colours, 428. 



Chromatic Phsenomena, 338. 



Clark's process of Purify ingWater,46 7 



Cleavage of Rocks, &c,, 298. 



Coal, English, 59 ; American, 181 ; 

 Power of, 184. See Austen. 



Colne River Water, 49. 



Colours, Laws of, 428. 



Conservation of Force, 352. 



Cookery, Military, &c. 422. 



Cottager's Stove, 423. 



Dante, on, 118. 



De la Rue, Warren, his Photographs 

 of the Moon exhibited, 462. 



— Chemical Discoveries, &c., 506,508. 

 Denison, E. B., on the Great Bell of 



Westminster, 368. 



— on Locks, 475. 



Deville, M,, Aluminium, 215 ; Elected 

 Hon. M.R.I., 413. 



Dia-magnetism, 159. 



Dickinson, J., on Supply of Water for 

 London, 47. 



Donne, W. B., on Chaucer, 248. 



Dresser, C, on Science and Orna- 

 mental Art, 350. 



Earth, Measurement of, &c., 17, 519. 

 Earthquakes in South Italy, 528. 

 Education in Science, 556. 



