Index, 



276 



Mercantile Classei, a Friendly So- 

 ciety for the, 177 



Mctttllic Acids, on, 76 



Metals, Melting Points of, 10 



Minerals, Notice of some New, 61 



Moon, its Influence on the Weather, 243 

 Mortality, Cases of, at different Ages, 193 



Mortality of Towns, 36 



Murdoch, Mr. D., on the Impurity 



of some Drugs, 236 



Murdoch, Mr. J., Analysis of Obsi- 

 dian, by, 207 



Murray, Mr., Analysis of Asbestus, 



by, 104 



Murray, Mr. W., Section of the 



Lanarkshire Coal Field, 113 



Museum, Fossils in the Glasgow 

 Geological, 113 



New York, Laws of Mortality in, ... 194 



New Zealand Minerals, 105 



New Zealand Ochre, Analysb of, ... 207 



Oats, Experiments on, with Manures, 83 



Ochre from New Zealand, 207 



Office-bearers of the Society, 2, 68, 176 

 Olbcrs, Dr., his Opinion of the 



Weather, 246 



Oxygen, improved mode of Prepar- 

 ing, 44 



Parietic Acid, 191 



Parictin, a New Yellow Colouring 



Matter, 182 



Penny, Dr., on Asbestus, 104 



Peristerite, a New Mineral, 62 



Perkins, Mr., on Compression of 



Water, 254 



Perth, Statistics of, 119 



Perthite, i ''>w Mineral, 62 



Philadelpht^J^ Laws of Mortality in, 194 



Phosphate of Iron, Analysis of, 105 



Plants, Cultivation of, in Close Cases, 1 6 



Plants, on Fertilization of, 43 



Portpatrick, plants near, 210 



Potatoes, Experiments on, with 



Manures, 94, 95, 96 



Prasilite, a New Mineral, , 66 



Premium in Insurance, 225 



Rain, Influence of the Moon on, 247 



lialfs, Mr., on some Fresh Water 



Plants, 192 



Rates of Insurance, 180 



Reductions before the Blowpipe,.... 161 

 Registration in Scotland, Want of,.. 256 

 Ucsins and Wax, Analogy of, 130 



Salts, on Specific Gravity of, 199 



Sapan Wood, Composition of, 186 



Scarlet Fever, Laws of Mortality in, 195 

 Schleiden and Schwann's Doctrine 



ofCeUs, 142 



Scones, a Wholesome Bread, 32 



Scurvy, Cause of, 35 



Sea-Woeds, Constitnonts of; 186 



Sea-WeedB, on Manna in, 258 



Serum, Mixtures of, Producing Fi- 

 brin, 141 



Serum, White, of the Blood, 226 



Sickness, Society for Insurance in,.. 179 



Silicite, a New Mineral, 63 



Small Pox, Deaths from, in Glasgow, 1 54 

 Small Pox, Laws of Mortality in,... 195 



Society, Formation of, 1 



Soils, how formed by Lichens, 185 



Soups, Mode of Forming, 37 



Specific Gravity of Oxygen, 69 



Spens, Mr., on a Friendly Society,.. 177 

 on the Minimum Rate of 



Premiums, 217 



Spirit Lamp, without a Wick, 209 



Statistical Section, Report of, 556 



Stenhouse, Mr. J., on Artificial Ul- 

 tramarine, 49 



on Divi-divi, 47 



on Manna in Sea-weeds, .... 258 



on Preserving Meat, 145 



Stilbite firom Kerguelen's Land, 207 



Sugar, Conversion of, into Wax,.... 73 



Sugar observed in Blood, 225 



Sulphate of Lime in Sulphur, 237 



Sulpho-protcic Acid, on, 52 



Sulphur, Analysis of, 208 



Sulphur, Precipitated, Analysis o^.. 237 



Tables of Insurance, 220 



Tartar Emetic, Impurity in, 238 



Thein exists in Paraguay Tea, 114 



Thomson, Dr. Thomas, on the Ox- 

 ides of Bismuth, 4 



on some New Minerals, 61 



on Melting Points of Alloys 



of Lead, Tin, &c., 77 



on Coal Gas, 165 



Thomson, Dr. R D., on Parietin, a 



Yellow Colouring Matter, 182 



Report on Supplying the 



Poor with Food, 29 



on the Cure of Blindness 



produced by Oil of Vitriol, 62 



Analysis of Cowdie Pine 



Resin, 123 



on Nutritive Power of Bread 



and Flour of different Countries, 163 

 on White Serum, 231 



Thomson, Mr. George, on Blast 



Furnaces, 84 



Thomson, Mr. James, on an Appa- 

 ratus for Emptying Waggons, 25 



Thrush, Occurrence of Vegetation in, 82 



Tin, Melting Point of Alloys of, 78 



Treasury, Lords of the. Letter fi^jm, 198 



Trigonometrical Survey of Scotland, 198 

 Turnips, Experiments on, with 



Manures, 97 



Tophus, Deaths from, in Glasgow,.. 154 



T)'rian Purple, on, 75 



Ultramarine, Artificial, on, 49 



