INDEX. 



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ive propensities of animals, 96 ; on the 

 supposed absorbent powers of the spon- 

 gioles of the roots of trees, 534. 



Knox (Rev. T.) on a new rain gauge, 260. 



Kcene (M. ) on a double salt of codeia 

 and morphia, 405. 



Lampic acid, nature of, 512 ; changed into 

 acetic acid, 513. 



Landerer on emetine, 165. 



La Silla, mountain of, 25 ; land-shell lime- 

 stone ol, 26 ; caves of, 29. 



Lassaigne ( M.) on stearic aether and stea- 

 rate of methylene, 487. 



Laurent (M.) on the theory of organic com- 

 binations, 564. 



Lead, on murio-carbonate and muriate of, 

 175 ; chlorosulphuret of, 560. 



Lichens, chemical basis of the peculiar co- 

 lour of, 338. 



Liebig on the condensing tube, 57 ; on pi- 

 nic acid, 164. 



Light, phamomena of the absorption of, 

 95 ; on the propagation of, in uncry- 

 stallized media, 132; on the dispersion of, 

 477 ; solar, effects of, on vegetation, 525, 

 zodiacal, 194. 



Light-houses, on different modes of illu- 

 minating, 94. 



Lime, on the sulphurets of, 195. 



Lindley (Dr. J.) on the botanical affinities 

 of Orobanche, 409. 



Link on the composition of cellular mem- 

 brane, 440. 



Linseed oil, combustion of, 324. 



Lixouri, on a tertiary deposit near, 209. 



Lloyd (J. A.) on metereological deductions 

 made at Port Louis in 1833, 1834, and 

 1835, 97. 



Lloyd ( Prof. ) on the propagation of light 

 in un crystallized media, 132. 



Locke (Dr. J.) on a thermoscopic galvano- 

 meter, 378. 



Lubbock (J. W. ) on the fluctuations of the 

 height of high-water due to changes in 

 the atmospheric pressure, 195; on the 

 variation of the arbitrary constants in 

 mechanical problems, 492 ; on the wave- 

 surface in the theory of double refraction, 

 417. 



MacCullagh (Mr.) on the laws of crystal- 

 line reflexion and refraction, 134. 



Magnetic dip, on the, 370 ; observations of, 

 with a three-inch circle, 372. 



Magnetic intensity of the earth, 58, 66, 

 170, 254, 363. 



Magnetism, variations in the needles, 166. 



Magnets, on an improved mode of con- 

 structing, 196. 



Malaguti (M. ), analysis of citric aether, 139. 



Mammalia, extinct, in the deposits of the 

 neighbourhood of the Plata, 206. 



Mammifera, on the first changes in the ova 

 of the, 93. 



Marquart (J. C.) on the progress of phy- 

 tochemistry, 156, 333; on the colours 

 of plants, 441. 



Mathematics, 41, 239, 302, 417, 456, 461, 

 492, 524, 537. 



Mease (Dr.) on the dry rot of ships, 192. 



Mercury, native iodide of, 143. 



Metals, on the action of nitric acid on, 554. 



Metanaphtalcne, new carburets of, 404. 



Meteorological deductions made at Port 

 Louis in 1833, 18:34, and 1835, 97. 



Meteorological observations, 143, 223, 327, 

 407, 487, 567; taken at Bermuda in 

 1836,449. 



Meteorological Table:— for May, 144; 

 June, '224; July, 328; August, 408; 

 September, 48S ; October, 568. 



Meyen (J.) on the progress of vegetable 

 physiology, 381,435, 524 ; on the struc- 

 ture of the glands on the leaves of the 

 Labia t a-, 531. 



Mineral veins, on the process by which they 

 have been filled, 203. 



Mineralogy :— crystallographical identity 

 of phacolite and the Irish bipyramidal 

 levyne with chabasie, 12; on murio- 

 carbonate and native muriate of lead, 

 175; on the crystalline form of pyro- 

 smalite,261 ; account of Edwardsite, 402. 



Mines, in the Savana region, discovery and 

 progress of the, 22 ; on their tempera- 

 ture in Cornwall and Devonshire, 520. 



Mitchell (Dr.) on a well at Beaumont 

 Green, Hereford, 215. 



Mohl, on the symmetry of vegetables, 383 ; 

 on the validity of Ehrenbergs character 

 for distinguishing animals and vegeta- 

 bles, 387. 



Moore (Mr.) on the earthquake in Syria, 

 204. 



Mornay on the inflammable milk of Eu- 

 phorbia phosphorescens, 530. 



Morphia and iodine, 218. 



Morphia and iodic acid, 219. 



Morren on the respiration of plants, 537. 



Morris (J.) on the strata usually termed 

 plastic clay, 104. 



Mulder (M.) on the preparation of sul- 

 p buret of carbon, 221. 



Murchison (R. I.) on the physical struc- 

 ture of Devonshire, 311 ; on the upper 

 formations of the new red system, 318. 



Murio-carbonate and native muriate of 

 lead, on, 175. 



Murphy (Rev. R.) on an error of M. 

 Fourier in his •' Analyse des Equa- 

 tions," 38 ; on the roots of equations, 92. 



Muscular fibre of animal and organic lite, 

 structure of, 194. 



Myrmecobius, on certain differences exist- 

 ing between two specimens of, 200. 



New books, notices respecting, 481, 548. 



Newbold (Lieut.) on the lpoh or Upas 

 poison, 193. 



Newport (G.) on the temperature of in- 

 sects, and its connexion with respiration 

 and circulation, 189. 



Newton (Sir I.) on the manuscript of, 

 138. 



