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INDEX. 



Agassiz, Professor, on the glacial theory and its recent progress, 217. 

 _— Professor, his theory of glaciers, examined by Professor 



Bronn, 36. 

 ■ Professor, on the succession and development of organised 



beings on the globe, 388. 



— his recent observations on the glacier of the Aar, 399. 



Air-passages, their ultimate distribution, and the mode '> of forma- 

 tion of the air-cells of the lungs, by William Addison, F.L.S., 

 &c., 207. 



Alps, geological structure of, by M. Studer of Berne, 144. 



Arago, M., on Nebulae, 307- 



on the Milky Way, 326. 



Asbestus of Scharzenstein, in the Ziller Thai in the Tyrol, its com- 

 position, 203. 



Barry, Martin, Dr, his additional observations on fibre, 192. 



Borneo, on the occurrence of platina and diamonds there, 284. 



Bowerbank, J. S., Esq., on the organic tissues in the bony structure 

 of Corallidje, 206. 



British fossil reptiles, account of, by Professor Owen, 65. 



Bronn, Professor, on some geological and physical considei'ations con- 

 nected with certain portions of the glacier theory of M. Agassiz, 

 36. 



Bryson, Mr R., on a new method of illuminating church clocks, 293. 



Buchanan, George, Esq., civil engineer, his description and uses of 

 his protracting table, 140. 



Bude-light, report on the, by Andrew Ure, M.D., 91. 



Charpentier, Jean de, on glaciers, and the erratic formation of the 

 Rhone, 104. 



Climate of Egypt, remarks on, by Joseph Russegger, Austrian coun- 

 cillor of mines, 93. 



Coal and coke, their comparative evaporative power, by Dr Fyfe, 31. 



Copper, native, in North America, its geognostic position, 201. 



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