176 INDEX. 



Sabine (Captain), notice of his experiments to ascertain the 

 amount of the dip of the magnetic needle in London, xiv. 161 



■ details by, of a barometrical measurement of the Sugar- 



loaf mountain at Sierra Leone, xv. 67 ; of the mountain-house 

 at Ascension, 69 ; of the block-house at Fort-George, Trini- 

 dad, 70 ; of Port- Royal mountains, Jamaica, ib. ; of the height 

 of the Pico Ruivo in the island of Madeira, 75 

 ■ on the temperature at considerable depths of the Carib- 



bean Sea, xvii. 126. Comparison of barometrical measure- 

 ment with the trigonometrical determination of a height at 

 Spitzbergen, 268 "* 



analysis of his work on experiments to determine the 



figure of the earth by means of the pendulum vibrating seconds 

 in different latitudes, and on various other subjects of philoso- 

 phical inquiry, xx. 141 



Sabrina island, account of the formation of^ ix. 414 



Safety-lamps, account of Sir H. Davy's for coal-mines, i. 1. Proof 

 of their beneficial effects, 131, 302 



— — observations on, v. 6. Applied to the Argand lamp, 



124. Account of his ignited wire-lamp, 128 



Salamander (aquatic), the general process of the reproduction of 

 the members of, described, xvi. 84. Variations in that process, 

 89. Comparison of the process in different animals possessing 

 this power, 92. General observations, 94 



Salifiable base, account of a new one, xii. 177 



Salisbury (R. T.), observations of, on the coniferous plants of 

 Kaempfer, ii. 309 



Saline crystallization, remarks on, v. 106 



Salivation, extraordinary instance of, iii. 402 



Salmo Eperlanus of Linnaeus, analysis of, xiii. 416 



Salt (Mr.), copy of an inscription by at Alexandria, x. 7. Notice 

 of his researches in Egypt, 475 



Salt, phenomena of the solution of, i. 24. Account of salt-mud 

 in the village of Kuhoo, 256. Lake in the forest of Ramsam, 

 257 



— notice of a mountain of, in Spain, ii. 153 



