INDEX. 



647 



produced iii atmospheric air by leaves, 

 95. 



Busses, M., method of obtaining mag- 

 nesium, 562. 



C. 



CADMUS, remarks upon the origin of 

 the fable, 60. 



Calculous diseases, on the tendency to, 

 by Dr. Yelloly, 316. 



Cambium, remarks upon, in the forma- 

 tion of wood and bark, 478. 



Camphor, composition of, 631. 



Canals, mode of regulating the supply 

 of water between rivulets and, 307. 



Caseum and milk, memoir on, 181. 



Cat, natural cleanliness of the, 23. 



mode of cleaning itself, ibid. 

 its care to secure warmth, 497. 



difference between the wild and 

 domestic, 499. 



Cathedral at Cologne, remarks upon the 

 vaulting of the choir, 235. 



Cavalier, M., on discoloured chloride of 

 silver, 393. 



Cauchy, M. A. L., on the integration of 

 differential equations, 596 on series, 

 ibid. on the moments of inertia of a 

 solid, 597 on a system of molecules, 

 ibid. on the theory of light, ibid. 

 demonstration of the law relating to 

 solids and fluids, 598 memoir on 

 torsion, ibid. 



Ceres, remarks upon the fabulous history 

 of, 59. 



Chameleon, its antipathy to black, 

 194. 



Charcoal most suitable for the manu- 

 facture of gunpowder, 131. 



- new process in the manufac- 



ture of, 184. 



Chemical notation, observations on the 

 necessity of a, by Rev. W. Whewell, 

 437. 



Chevalier, M., on the thermal water of 

 Chaudes Aigues, 417. 



Chloride of silver, remark upon the dis- 

 coloured, 393. 



of gold, and potassium, analysis 



of, 410. 



and sodium, analysis of, 



ibid. 

 Chlorine, action of, upon carburetted 



hydrogen, 169. 

 . an antidote to hydrocyanic 



acid, 188. 

 Chlorophane, electrical experiments 



upon, 77. 

 its phosphorescence restored 



by electricity, 78. 



Cholera morbus, observations on, by 



Dr. Jahinichen, 567. 

 Christie, Mr., on the permanence of 



magnetism in steel bars, 243. 



on the aurora borealis, 262. 



on the height of a luminous 



arch of the aurora hurt-alls above the 



surface of the earth, 525. 

 Chronology of the Egyptians, 458. 

 Circulation in vegetables, 424. 

 in plants, remark* on the, 



Clarke, Mr., on pyrophosphates, 167. 



Cleaning instrument of the larva of the 

 glow-worm described, 17. 



Clement's experiment, easy mode of 

 repeating it, 369. 



Clemson's, Mr., mode of preparing pi- 

 perin, 395. 



Climate of England, remarks upon the, 

 by Mr. Knight, 642. 



Clover (Trifolium repent), not the ori- 

 ginal emblem of Ireland, 453, 454. 



Cold, never sufficiently intense to stop 

 the evaporation of water, 70. 



Coloured bands, experiments on, by Mr. 

 Quitelet, 164. 



Columbine, a new vegetable principle, 

 630. 



Comet, account of a, by Mr. Dabadie, 

 241. 



Compression of fluids, experiments upon 

 the, 375. 



Contributions to the physiology of 

 vision, No. I., 101 ; No. II., 534. 



Copper and zinc, voltaic action produced 

 from a few grains of, 32. 



Coriolis's, M., experiments on the com- 

 pression of lead, 158. 



Coxe's, Dr., mode of preparing phos- 

 phuret of lime, 173. 



Cowper, Mr., on recent improvements in 

 paper making, 552. 



Cuticular pores of plants, 419. 



Cutting instruments, new mode of set- 

 ting, 13. 



Cuvier's theory of vision, 536. 



Cyanogen in the blood, 186. 



D. 



DAB.VDIK'S, M., account of a new comet, 

 241. 



Dahlias, new mode of multiplying, 424. 



Danaides, remarks upon the fable of the, 

 68. 



Daniell, Mr. J. F., on the phenomena 

 resulting from the action of mercury 

 upon different metals, 1 action of mer- 

 cury upon an alloy of lead and tin, ibid. 

 remark upon the nature and result 

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