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INDEX. 



Adie, E,., Esq., of Liverpool, his account of experiments with thermo- 

 and hydro-electrical currents, with an examination of the metals 

 exposed to thermo-electrical action, 346. 



Agassiz, Louis, Dr, a period in the history of our planet, 1. 



■ Report, hy M. E. Desor, of his, Mr Agassiz', late researches 



on glaciers, 290. 



Ancient sea-levels, lines of, 121. 



Artesian wells considered, by Admiral Sir David Milne, 79. 



Arts, decorative, observations on, by C. H. Wilson, Esq., 259. 



Arts, Royal Scottish Society of, its Proceedings, 377. 



Avanturine-glass, composition of, by Professor F. Wohler, 313. 



Aurora Borealis, observations on the, in Norway, 384. 



Balfour, Edward, Assistant -Surgeon, H.E.I.C.S., on the migratory 



tribes of natives in Central India, 29. 

 Barbadoes, observations on its temperature and hygrometric state, 



by Robert Lawson, Esq., assistant-surgeon 47th regiment, 57. 

 Barry, Martin, Dr, on fissiparous generation, 205. — The cells in the 



ovum compared with the corpuscles of the blood, &c., 320. 

 Beaches, raised, observed in Scotland, some account of, 278. 

 Bivalve molluscous animals, considerations regarding their compara- 

 tive normal position, by M. Alcide D'Orbigny, 162. 

 Buch, Baron von, on the forms assumed by granite and gneiss at the 



surface of the earth, 316. 

 Buckley, S. B., A.M., notice of the discovery of a nearly complete 



skeleton of the Zygodon of Owen, in Alabama, United States, 



America, 77. 



Carpenter, W. M., Professor, on the methods in common use of ob- 

 taining the mean temperature of places, &c., 53. 



Cavern, freezing, at Orenburg, its phenomena explained by Dr Hope, 

 191. 



Cirripeds, their sexes, organs of reproduction, and mode of develop- 

 ment considered, by H. D. S. Goodsir, Esq., 88. 



Coal, theory of its formation ; American and European evidence 

 compared, 117. 

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