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INDEX. 399 



Lacustrine basing of Albania described, G5 



Lamp, platina, new kind described, 359 



Lang", Dr, on the bones found in caves in New Holland, 3G4 , 



Latta, Dr, bis account of tbe disasters in Baffin's Bay, 136 



Luxury of the Romans, account of, 49 



Maxwell, Clerk, his plan for combining machinery with the manual 



printing press, 352 

 Merryweather, George, account of a new platina lamp, 359 

 Meteorology, notices in, 176, 379 - 



Murchison and Sedgwick, Boue's Answer to their obserratioB^ oM^ 



the Austrian Alps, 14 t^l ^iuicaid>B 



Mineralogy, notices in, 385 



New Holland, account of the Bone Caves lately discovered there, 



364 

 Nicol, William, on the fossil trees of Van Dieman's Land, 361 ' 

 Noah*s ark described, 310 ^^>'{htfM ic> ^an^nq *?>*j*m hm ^oV^ 



Olmsted, Professor, his theory of hail storms examined by Dr Ti 

 Christie, 308 



Patents granted in England from 27th February to 14th Septem^^^/ 

 ber 1830, 193 ; and from 27th November to 13th December 

 1830, 389 



»' granted in Scotland from 16th September to 30th Novenm?) 

 ber 1830, 199 ; and from 20th December to 4th March 188 1> 



390 .-^"-rtV^ 



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Platina lamp, a new one described, 359 



Polar lights in Shetland, 177 



Potatoes, frozen, preservation of, 186 ^ t**^^^* ' '*'" 



planting of, 186 - t^^^^ 



Potash obtained commercially from felspar, 189 -"^ 5«>n«^M 



Printing, improvements in, suggested by W. Fraser, l&9^^'^'^^ ^i'?-,'"^ 

 Printing press, improvements by Clerk Maxwell and Williaiife^- 



Fraser, described, 352 

 Publications, new, the following noticed : 1 . Edinburgh Cabinet 

 Library ; 2. Wilson's American Ornithology ; 3. Witham on 

 Fossil Vegetables; 4. Innes's Tide Tables, 192. 5. De la 

 Beche's Sections and Views illustrative of Geological Pheno* .: 

 mena, 389 



