INDEX. 19 



Banca (Island of), its physical constitution and productions) ii. 

 190, 191 



process followed in working the tin-mine there, 191, 192. 



ix. 412-414. 



Bandana, gallery at Glasgow described, xv. 209-216. 



Bank-notes, reports of the commissioners for inquiring into the 

 mode of preventing forgery of, ix. 142-148 



Banks (Mr.), on the case of a child that had swallowed a knife, 

 V. 265-268. 



Banks (Sir Joseph), on an ancient canoe found in Lincolnshire, 

 i. 244, 245 



honourable tribute to, v. 344, 345 



Banquets of the ancients, notice of, xviii. 124. 



Barbadoes (Island), geological structure of, v. 311. xi. 10-20 



Barban^ois (M. de), on a new classification of animals, ii. 429-431 



Barium, sulphuret of, experiments on, xv. 149 



Bark of the quassia simarouba, analysis of, xiii. 416 



Barlow (Peter, Esq.), experiments and observations by, on the 

 daily variation of the horizontal and dipping needles, under a 

 reduced directive power. On the magnetism imparted to iron 

 bodies during the act of rotation, xix. 263^ 264 



Barometer, improvements in tlie construction of, i. 295 



-— for marking the maximum of elevation, or of depres- 

 sion during the observer's absence, description of, iii. 399 



— new notice of, v. 120. And thermometer, variation 



of, XV. 371-372 



periodical rise and fall of, xvi. 396. Description of 



a mountain-barometer, 277-279 



—— horary oscillation of,xvii. 189-197. Remarks on the 



barometer, 345-347. On the formation of mercurial vapour in, 



380 



on one of the causes of the movements of the, and of 



the south and west winds, xx. 14-21 



Barometrical mensuration, observations and tables for tlie correc- 

 tion of, xiii. 76-91 



.■ of the height of the sugar-loaf mountain at Sierra 



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