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INDEX. 



Duncan, Rev. Dr, on tlie foot-marks of 

 animals in sandstone, 130, 305 



Dynamics, on the principles of, as given 

 by French writers, 27 



Karth, on the changes in its meteorologi- 

 cal constitution, 311 



Eclipse, solar, of Nov. 29, observed at 

 Naples, lfJ6 



Electricity, on the variable conducting 

 powers of bodies for, 365 



Elephants, Albino ones, 32, 341 — new 

 species of, 156 



Equator, on its mean temperature, 60 



Exhibition of national industry at Paris, 

 344 



Faraday, Mr, on the disinfecting soda 

 liquid, 371 



Farey, Mr, his improved lamp, 157 



Ferussac, Baron, his work on the Cepha- 

 lopodous Mollusca, 374 



Fleming, Dr, his History of British Ani- 

 mals reviewed, 355 



Fossil bones on the Irawaddi, 1 8, 56 



Foster, Lieut, on the variations of the 

 needle, 197 



Foot-marks of animals in sandstone^ 

 305 



Footsteps before the flood, 130, 305 



Fraunhofer, M., on coloured spectra 

 from different lights, 7 



Fucus saccharinus, on its collection for 

 the Chinese market, 1 62 



Gas lights, natural ones at Fredonia, 1 83 



Gases on an apparatus for impregnating 

 liquids with them, 110 



Germany, geological map of, 183 



Giron, M., on the reproduction of domes- 

 tic animals, 1 55 



Graham, Mr Thomas, on the absorption 

 of vapours by liquids, 326 



Grant, Dr R. E. on the generation of 

 the Lobularia digitata, 104 



Green iron ore, analysis of, 174 



Grierson, Mr, on footsteps before the 

 flood, in a specimen of sandstone, 130 



Greenstone of the Hattz, 182 



Gulwugty, on the Indian pennance of, 44 



Habenstreet, M. on a cloth made by in- 

 sects, 343 



Hansteen, Professor, his magnetic tour 

 in Siberia, 169 



Harwood on a remarkable marine ani- 

 mal, 300 



Hpat developed in combustion, 173 



Henderson, Rev. Mr, on the sound of 

 ihe Aurora Borealis, 170 



Henderson, J. Esq., on the luminosity 

 of the sea, 167 



Herschel, .J. F. Esq., on binary systems 

 of stars, 40 



Horse, on a polydactylous one, 25 



Hydrogen gas from salt mines, 183 



Ice, on its formation in India, 216 



Ink, indelible, how to make it, 160 



Insects, a new kind of cloth fabricated by 

 them, 343 



Irawaddi, on the fossil bones on the 

 banks of the, 18, 56, 



Itby, Hon. C. L. on the city of Petra, 

 227 



Juno, its opposition to the sun, 167 



Jupiter's satellites, eclipses of observed at 

 Wilna, 361 



Karphosiderite, a new mineral, 181 



Kendal, meteorological observations at, 

 186 



Kennedy, Dr R. H. on the Indian pen- 

 nance of Gulwugty, 44 



King, Mr James, his apparatus for im- 

 pregnating liquids with gases, 110 



Knee-joint of the Echidna hystrix, on a 

 remarkable structure in the, 183 



Lamp, on Mr Farey's improved one, 157 



Liebig, M. his test for the presence ot 

 nitric acid, 370 



Limnoria terebrans, account of its effects, 

 152 



Lightning, on the effects of it on a ship, 

 203 



Lind, Alexander F. Esq; on the meteo- 

 rological phenomena at Patna and 

 Futtehpore in 1826, 244 



Littrow, M. on the best radii for double 

 achromatic object-glasses, 344 



Lobularia digitata, on the generation of 

 the, 104 



Locusts, on their appearance in the Doab, 

 149 



Luminositv of the ocean, 167— near 

 Prince of Wales .Island, 362 



Lunar tables, the Chevalier Burg's im- 

 provements on the, 134 



Magnet, on the rotation of one about its 

 axis, 170 



Magnetism excited in all bodies, 169 



Magnetic needles improved, 169 



tour in Siberia, 169 



needles supposed to be influ- 

 enced by the Aurora Borealis, 189 



Malacca, on its mean temperature, 63 



Manganese chloride of, on a remarkably 

 volatile one, 179 



how to separate it from lime 



and magnesia, 374 



Mangles, Captain James, on the city ot 

 Petra, 227 



Marcet, M. F., on the ultimate analysis 

 of vegetables, 178 



Marshall, Mr S.^ on the cause of tlie ver- 

 nal winds, 39 — his summary of meteo- 

 rological observations at Kendal for 

 1827, 299. 



Medals adjudged, 374 



Metallurgy of Iron, Karsteu's, 174 



Meteoric stone at Futtehpore 171 



Meteorological phenomena at Patna and 



