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INDEX. 



Cooking, inconvenience of the pressure apparatus for, 189. 



Combustion of alcoholic fluids, oil, &c. in lamps, Mr H. H. Blackadder's ob- 

 servations on the, 52. 



Commerce, notices in, 205. 



Cormack, W. E., Esq., his account of the cod, capelin, cuttle-fish and seal, as 

 they occur at Newfoundland, 32. 



Corallines, Prof. Schweigger on the anatomy of several species of, 220. 



Crystals, M. Robinet's new method of purifying, 326. 



Cormack, Mr W. E., on the fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador, 205. 



Deception occasioned by fog, 183. 



Dick, Thomas, Esq., his description of a new reflecting telescope, 41. 

 Don, Mr David, his observations on Philadelpheae and Granateae, 132. 

 Drummond, Lieut., his remarks on the means of facilitating the observations 

 of distant stations in geodesical operations, 182. 



Echidna, Dr Knox on the presence of a rudimentary spur in the female, 130. 



Engelhart on the colouring principle of the blood, 312. 



English silks and cottons inferior in respect to durability to those of France 



and India, 203. 

 Expedition, Arctic Land, notice regarding Franklin's, 161. 



Falling stars, Professor Brandes on, 124. 

 Fiery meteors, M. Serre's notice regarding, 114. 

 Fish used in Persia for feeding cattle, 197. 



Fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador, Mr Cormack on the, 32, 205. 

 Fishes, Reverend Mr Smith's account of a shower of, 1 86. 

 Flame, Mr H. H. Blackadder on the colour and constitution of, 52, 224. 

 Fluids in the cavities of minerals, 192. 

 Foot race on Chapham Common, 198. 

 France, Mr Arnott's tour in the South of, 66. 



Frembly. Mr J., his observations on the temperature of the sea at the mouth 

 of the Thames, 377- 



Garnet, cinnamonstone a variety of, 395. 



Gaylussite, notice regarding it, 192. 



Geckoes used for catchiug flies, 198. 



Geological observations, D. A. Boue's, 78. 



Geology, observations on its nature and importance, 293. 



notices in, 192, 393. 



Graham, Dr, his list and descriptions of rare plants flowering in the Edinburgh 

 Botanic Garden, 171, 385. 



Grant, Dr R. E., his description of a new species of zoophyte, 78 observa- 

 tions on the structure of some calcareous sponges, 166. — on the structure 

 of some silicious sponges, 341.— on the silicious spicula of two zoophytes 

 195 on the spontaneous motion of the ova of zoophytes, 150. 



Gum-ammoniac plant, 397. 



Guibourt, M. on arsenic, 317. 



Hall, Captain Basil, his notices respecting a voyage of research, 351. 



Herrings account of a shower of, in Kinrosshire, 187- 



Hills formed by springs, 192. 



Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes, notice regarding, 196. 



Howison, Dr W., his account of the management of the water melon and 



cucumber in Russia, 125. 

 Humidity, compound for preserving substances from, 189. 

 Hyalosiderite, a variety of chrysolite, 363. 



Insects, abundant in the Highlands of Scotland, 395.— cultivation of certain, 



198 found in amber, 390. 



Inness, Mr George, his calculations of Celestial Phenomena, from July to 



October 1826^ 196.-~from October to January 1827, 387- 

 Iodine, Mr Turner on its presence in the mineral spring of Bonnington, 159. 

 Irish elk, Professor Jameson's notice respecting it, 199. 



