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INDEX. 



Air-pump, proposed improvement in the, 386 



Alcyonium, silicious spicula discovered in, 202 



Alexander, Lieutenant, his account of certain lu8U8 naturee^ 98 



Anthracite, M. Breithaupt's remarks on, 385 



Anthropology, notices in, 202, 405 



Arnott, Mr, his Tour in the South of France, 319. 



Arts, notices in, 204-, 408 



Astronomy, notices in, 180 



Atlantic and Pacific Oceans proposed to be united by a canal, 195 



Aurora borealis, Dr Richardson's observations on the, 241 



Bald, Robert, Esq. his account of fires in collieries, 101 



Barometric Measurement, Mr Galbraith's tables for, 42 



Black, W. Esq. his sketch of the climate of the Mediterranean, 243 



Bleeding with ligature employed in cases of poisoning, 353 



Borax, octahedral, notice respecting, 195 



Blowing a river out, 391 



Borate of barytes, 195 



Bos, fossil skull of a species of, found in North America, 325 



Botany notices in, 204, 398 



Botryogen, notice respecting, 195 



Brongniart, M. A. his observation on arborizations contained in calcedony, 



268 

 Brown, Robert, Esq. his microscopical observations on the existence of 



active molecules in bodies, 358 

 Bushmen of Orange River, 1 57 



Calaite, found in Lower Silesia, 192 



Calcedony, M. A. Brongniart's observations on the arborizations in, 268 



Caribs, original country of the, 202 



Cavendish, Henry, Esq. M. Cuvier's biographical memoir of, 210 



Celestial phenomena for the meridian of Edinburgh, from July 1, to Oc- 

 tober 1, 1828, 176— from October 1, 1828, to January 1, 1829, 383 



Chara, M. Raspail's observations on the organisation of the genus, 400 



Christie, Dr A. T. his account of the southern Mahi-atta country, 292 



Christianity, M. de Frayssinou's defence of, 81 



Chrysoprase in serpentine, 192 



Climates of Norway and Sweden, 305 



Colours, accidental, Cuvier's explanation of, 190 



Comet of 1832, notice respecting it, 180 



Comets, account of Mr Milne's Essay on, 343 



Combustion, spontaneous, of the human body, 164 



Cordier, M. L. his examination of experiments on subterranean tempera* 

 ture, 277 



Coral Islands, remarks on, 396 



Crustacea, notice respecting the respiration of, 201 



Cuckoo, notice respecting one kept alive in winter, 200 



Cuvier, M. Fred, his observations on the structure of feathers and hair, 331 



