INDEX to VOL V. 



Achromatic lens, negative, its 



application to telescopes, &c, 452. 



Acids: — muriatic acid in fluor spars, 

 78; chrenic, 238; apochrenic, 238; 

 valerianic, 396 ; tartaric and pyro- 

 tartaric, 397 ; oxalic, 445; lithic, 465. 



Addams ( R.) on a peculiar optical pliaj- 

 nomenon, 373. 



JEther, hydrocyanic, 397. 



Agassiz (Dr.) on the growth and bi- 

 lateral symmetry of Echinndermata, 

 369; on the classification of fish, 

 459. 



Air, its action on lead, 81. 



Airy (Prof.) on the solar eclipse, July 

 16,1833,305; on the position of the 

 ecliptic, 307. 



Anions, 429. 



Apochrenic acid, in the mineral waters 

 of Porta, 238. 



Araneides, characters of some unde- 

 scribed species of, 50. 



Artesian wells, temperature of, 237. 



Astronomical Society, 300. 



Atomic constitution of elastic fluids, 

 33. 



Babbage (C.) on the Temple of Se- 

 rapis at Pozzuoli, 213; views re- 

 specting geological cycles, 215. 



Barlow (P.) on the application of the 

 negative achromatic lens to tele- 

 scopes, &c, 452. 



Barlow ( P. W.) on the motion of steam- 

 vessels, 453. 



Barton (J.) on the influence of high 

 and low prices on the rate of mor- 

 tality, 278. 



Beke (C. T.), reply to his papers on 

 gopher- wood, and former extension 

 of Persian Gulf, 244. 



Bell (Sir C.) on the functions of the 

 brain, 451. 



Bell (T.), description of Cyclemys, a 

 type of a new genus of the freshwater 

 tortoise, 143. 



Bennett (G.) on the habits of the King 

 Penguin, 231. 



Berzelius (M.), discovery of chrenic 

 and apochrenic acids in the mineral 

 waters of Porta, 238. 



Biela's comet, 301, 310. 



Blackburn (C.) on the modern tele- 

 graphs, 241, 365. 



Blackwall (J.) on some undescribed 



species of Araneidec, 50. 

 Botany : — deviations from the ordinary 



structure in Telopea speciosissima,10 ; 

 female flower and fruit of Rqfflesia, 

 70; structure of Hydnora, 70; in- 

 ternal structure of plants, 112, 181, 

 284 ; action of tannin on the roots 

 of plants, 157. 



Boussingault on suboxide of lead and 

 protoxide of tin, 79; on the sup- 

 posed compound of hydrogen and 

 platina, 155. 



Brain, analysis of the, 392; on the 

 functions of the, 451. 



Breithaupt's Mineralogy, notice of, 

 237. 



British Association, outline of pro- 

 ceedings of the Meeting at Edin- 

 burgh, 386. 



Broderip (W. J.), descriptions of new 

 species of Calyptr aides, 72, 232 ; de- 

 scription of a new genus of Gastero- 

 poda, 312. 



Brown (R.) on the female flower and 

 fruit of Rafflesia, 70. 



Bryce (J.) on the minerals of the north 

 of Ireland, 196. 



Caloric, electricity, and ponderable bo- 

 dies,remarkableanalogybetween,110. 



Calyptr addce, anatomy of the, 72 ; new 

 species of, 72, 232. 



Camphor, rotary motion of, 1 51. 



Carter (W. G.) on the gopher- wood of 

 Scripture, and former extension of 

 the Persian Gulf, 244. 



Cations, 429. 



Chrenic acid in the mineral waters of 

 Porta, 238. 



Clinometer, Henslow's, improvement 

 in, 159. 



Coal-fields, English, on the future ex- 

 tension of, 44. 



Comet, Biela's, 301, 310; Encke's, 

 304 ; Halley's, 284. 



Connel (A.) analysis of Levyne, 40. 



Conybeare (Rev. W. D.) on the future 

 extension of the English coal-fields, 

 44. 



Cooper (P.) on the colorific rays of 

 white light, 453. 



Crystallization of kalium, 399. 



Crystals of snow, remarkable, 318. 



Cuckoo, remarks on the, 149. 



Cyanogen, new radical analogous to, 78. 



Davy (Dr.) on the recent volcano in 

 the Mediterranean, 453. 



Dawes (Rev. W. R.), micrometrical 

 measures of double stars, 302. 



