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INDEX. 



Blood corpuscles, or red particles of the 

 mannniferous animals, 139; on certain 

 peculiarities of form in the, of mammi- 

 ferous animals, 325 ; of certain species 

 of the genus Cervus, 327 ; appendix to, 

 330. 



Blood, on the corpuscles of the, 157, 300. 



Bohemia, on the carboniferous and tran- 

 sition rocks of, 226. 



Bokkeveld meteorite, cold, on the fall of 

 the, 142. 



Booth (James) on the focal properties of 

 surfaces of the second order, 432. 



Boracite from Liineburg, results of ana- 

 lysis of, 104. 



Boutigny (M.) on the phaenomena of ca- 

 lefaction, 230. 



Bowman (W.) on the minute structure 

 and movements of voluntary muscles, 

 386. 



Brain, on the anatomy of the, 14. 



Britain, cultivation of the vine in, 99. 



British Association, address of the Gene- 

 ral Secretaries of the, at Glasgow, 441, 

 482. 



Buckland (Dr.), letter to, by the Rev. J. 

 Gunn, on the Paramoudra from the 

 chalk near Norwich, 230. 



Building-stone commission, 388. 



Calculus, biliary, on a new species of, 8. 



Calefaction, phenomena of, 230. 



Cambridge Philosophical Society, proceed- 

 ings of the, 154. 



Carbo-hydrogen, on the iodide of a new, 1 . 



Carbon, atomic weight of, 477. 



Carbonic acid, on the aqueous solution of 

 carbonate of magnesia with excess of, 

 346. 



Carboniferous slate of Cork, 173; table 

 of fossils found in the, 174. 



Carburet of platina, 234. 



Carbyle, sulphate of, 235. 



Cervus, on the blood corpuscles of certain 

 species of the genus, 327. 



Chalk formation, 513. 



Challis (Rev. J.) on the motion of a small 

 sphere vibrating in a resisting medium, 

 462. 



Chelidonia and pirropina, 543. 



Chemical and contact theories of voltaic 

 electricity, 237. 



Chemical types, on the theory of, 179. 



Chloride of gold, on the use of, as a pho- 

 togtaphic agent, 204. 



Chromic acid, 231. 



Climate of Italy and other countries in 

 ancient times, 92. 



Clouds, colours of the, and complementary 

 colours, 35. 



Coal-fields and Wealdens,on the origin of 

 the vegetation of our, 67. 



Coal formation, 512. 



Coathupe (C. T.) on certain effects of tem- 

 perature, 130. 



Cobalt, arsenic with, on some combina- 

 tions of, 331 ; first combination, analysis 

 of, 332 ; second combination : analysis 

 of, 333. 



Cod oil, on the presence of, in iodine, 78. 



Colophony, on the detection and estima- 

 tion of, when dissolved in the fixed 

 oils, 289. 



Colours, atomic theory of, 34 ; diagrams 

 showing the different stages of the, 37. 



Combination, on nitrates formed by di- 

 rect, 159. 



Comet, observations of the, made at Ash- 

 urst and Dulwich, 309 ; on the ap- 

 pearance of the, as seen at Hereford, 

 309. 



Conferva fltiviatilis, specimen presented 

 by H. R. H. Prince Albert to the Royal 

 Society, 380. 



Copper pyrites, octahedral, analysis of, 

 202. 



Copper-zinc and platina-zinc voltaic pairs, 

 241. 



Cornwall, Royal Geological Society of, 

 27th Annual Report of the, 474. 



Corpuscles of the blood, Dr. Martin Barry 

 on the, 157, 300. 



Crosse (Andrew) on the tension spark 

 from the voltaic battery, 215. 



Crustaceans, 523. 



Crystalline humour, on the protein of the, 

 398. 



Crystallized phosphoric acid, composition 

 of, 232. 



Cyanilic acid, 239. 



Daguerreotype, on the process of, and its 

 application to taking portraits from the 

 life, 217. 



Daniell (Prof.) on the electrolysis of se- 

 condary compounds, 297, 349 ; note re- 

 ferred to, 396. 



Davy (Dr. J.) on the form of the blood- 

 particles of the Ornithorhynchus hy- 

 strix, 298 ; on the aqueous solution of 

 carbonate of magnesia with excess of 

 carbonic acid, 346. 



Declination in scale-divisions, table of, 

 425. 



Decompositions, tables of : by chlorine 

 and bromine, 200; by the galvanic cur- 

 rent, 200. 



Delvauxine, Mr. Sandall on, 156. 



De Morgan (Augustus) on a calculating 

 machine, 385. 



Devonian system, 508. 



Digestion, pepsin the principle of, 317. 



Dove (H. W.) on the law of storms, 366. 



Draper (Prof. J.W.) on the process of 



