INDEX. 



Abydos, table of, 117 



Academy of Sciences, at Paris, 191 



Acetic acid, crystallized, 423 



Acid, formic, its preparation, 211 — 

 production of, 404 



, meconic, process for procuring, 68 

 , new, contained in the urine of 

 herbivorous animals, 424 



Acorns, mode of removing their bitter- 

 ness, 181 



Ainger, Mr., on the economy of the 

 steam-engine, 186— on the radiation 

 of heat, 378 



Air, moisture in, 195 



, heated, used in iron furnaces, 198 



Air-bladder, remarks on, in fishes, 125, 

 294 



Airy, Professor, papers of, 265 



Aldini, Chevalier, his fire-proof appa- 

 ratus, 175 



Algiers, action at, 158 



Alkalies, their action on organic bo- 

 dies, 211 



Allen, Mr., experiments of, 10 



American indigoes, 166 



Ammom'a, anhydrous subcarbonate of, 

 430 



Ampere, M., 183 



Andrews, Mr., 416 



Animal charcoal, its effects on solutions, 

 120 



crustaceous, 106 



• system, effects of oxygen and 



other gases upon, 1 

 Anquetil, M., 311 

 Apparatus, illuminative, 269 

 Arabic numerical system, 300 

 Arago, M., 184, 191 

 Architecture, naval, theory of, 345 

 Article, its inflections, 231 

 Artillery, naval, capabilities of, 140 

 Arzberger, M., table constructed by, 193 

 Astacillse of Cordiner, observations on, 



104 



Atk^Tis's History of Oloncestershire, 



66 

 Atmosphere, variation of temperature 



and pressure in, 167 

 Atwood, process of, 347 

 Awre, parish of, 64 

 Aztekes, language of, 300, 308, 320 



B. 



Balard, M., his detection of iodine, 200 



Barclay, A. K., Esq., 186 



Bark, its adulterations, 211 — veg 

 alkali in, 421 



Barometric depression, 172 



Bar}'ta, detection of, 416 



Base, measurement of, in Ireland, 384 



Bathurst, Rt. Hon. C. B., 68 



Beasts, illustrations of, 368 



Beaver, habits of, 299 



Becquerel, M., on metallic sulphurets, 

 &c., 205 



Beddoes, Dr., experiments of, 9 



Belladona, use of, 434 



Bengali figures, 329 



Bennett, Mr., 135 



Benout, M., his new hygroscope, 1 95 



Berzelius, his Scientific Annual, 61 — 

 his observations on thorina, 88 



Bevan, Mr., on the draught of car- 

 riages, 407 



Bi-iodide of mercury, preparation and 

 properties of, 208 



Bladder, on stone in, 391 



Blake, Capt., bis portable barometer, 

 190 



Bluett, T., on the skeletons of fishes, 

 214 



Blumenbach's Manual of Comparative 

 Anatomy, 292 



Bockh, M., on the digamma, 319 



Boitard, M., experiment of, 218 



Bone-black, 63 



Bopp, M., observation of, 307— disco- 

 very of, 328 



Borlase, Dr., opinion of, 24 



