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INDEX to VOL. XXIX. 



ACIDS :— boracic, 78 ; digitoleic, 147 ; 

 erythric, 265 ; roccellic, 270 ; choles- 

 teric, 330 ; chloric, 334 ; larapic, 353 ; 

 pelopic, 409; tantalic, 412,417; nio- 

 bic, 413; ilraenic, 417; palmic, 475; 

 cumaric, 485; oleic, 501; metacetonic, 

 505 ; butyric, ib. ; valerianic, 506 ; ca- 

 proic, ib. ; cenanthylic, ib. ; caprylic, 

 507 ; pelargonic, ib. ; capric, 509 ; chlo- 

 rogenic, 553 ; ruthenic, 558. 



Acids and alkalies, on the constitution of 

 aqueous solutions of, 289, 444. 



Adams ^J. C.) on the irregularities in the 

 motion of Uranus and on the existence 

 of an exterior planet, 520. 



Aerolites, on the satellitary nature of, 1. 



jEther, luminiferous, on the constitution 

 of the, 6. 



compounds of, with boracic acid, 75, 



546. 



Air, on the resistance of, to the motion 

 of railway trains at high velocities, 51. 



Airy (G. B.) on the bands formed by the 

 partial interception of the prismatic 

 spectrum, 337 ; on some of the circum- 

 stances historically connected with the 

 discovery of the planet exterior to Ura- 

 nus, 511. 



Alcohol, preparation of anhydrous, 421. 



Algebra, on a new system of imaginaries 

 in, 26, 113, 326. 



Alkalies and acids, on the constitution of 

 aqueous solutions of, 289, 444. 



Aloetine, observations on, 565. 



Alumina, improved method of detecting, 

 145 ; solubility of, in ammonia, 241. 



Animals, microscopic examination of some 

 of the principal tissues of, 271. 



Apatite, on the occurrence of, in lime- 

 stone, 245. 



Aspcrula odorata, examination of, 481. 



Astraea, observations on the newplanet,54. 



Aurora borealis of Sept. 17 and Oct. 12, 

 1833, on the heights of the, 63. 



Barlow (P. W.) on the power consumed 

 in overcoming the inertia of railway 

 trains, and of the resistance of the air 

 to the motion of railway trains at high 

 velocities, 51. 



Barometric wave of November, on the, 

 356. 



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Becquerel (M.) on the magnetic condi- 

 tion of matter, 250. 



Beke's (Mr.) travels in Abvssinia, account 

 of, 73. 



Bingham (R. J.) on an improvement in 

 the Daguerreotype process, 287. 



Birds, on motion in the lumbar division 

 of the spine of, 51. 



Birt (W. R.) on the great symmetrical 

 barometric wave of November, 356. 



Bishop (J.) on the physiology of the hu- 

 man voice, 132. 



Bleibtreu (H.) on cumarine, 480. 

 J31ood, on the perforation of the capilla- 

 ries by the corpuscles of the, 397. 



Boettger (M.) on the preparation of chlo- 

 ric acid, 334. 



Bombay, on some points in the meteo- 

 rology of, 467. 



Books, notice of new, 78, 229, 550. 



Boracic acid, compounds of, with aether j 

 75, 546. 



Bouquet (M.) on the compounds of bo- 

 racic acid with aether, 75 ; on hydrated 

 boracic acid, 78 ; on sulphurous aether, 

 146. 



Bowman (J. E.) on the electricity of gun- 

 cotton, 500 ; on tribasic boracic aether, 

 546. 



Boyle, Newton's letters to, concerning his 

 theory of light and colours, 185. 



Breithaupt (A.) on a remarkable felsite 

 from Marienberg, 148 ; on loxoclase, 

 150. 



Brewster (Sir D.) on a new property of 

 light, 331 ; on the law of daily tempe- 

 rature, 341. 



Bromine, action of hyponitric acid upon 

 aqueous solutions of, 227 ; on some 

 new compounds of, with lime, 287. 



Bronwin (Rev.B.) on the integration and 

 transformation of certain differential 

 equations, 494. 



Brougham (Lord), letter to, respecting 

 the discovery of the composition of 

 water, 36. 



Brucine, action of nitric acid on, 568. 



Brunner (C, sen.) on the determination of 

 carbonic acid in saline compounds, 328. 



Buusen (Prof.) on a convenient instru- 

 ment for graduating glass tubes, 99. 

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