( 429 ) 

 INDEX, 



Aboriginal nations of North and South America, comparative view 

 of their skulls, 111. 



Agassiz, his Tour to the Swiss glaciers, 184. 



Africa, North- Eastern, its geological constitution, 186. 



Alligator, great, capture and death of, at Manilla, in the Island of 

 Luconia, 77. 



Aragonitc, plumbiferous, described, 416. 



Aristotlo,his History of Animals, observations on, by Dr Osborne, 188. 



Arts, Society of, their proceedings, 390. 



Asiatic Society of Bengal, journal of, noticed, 201, 424. 



Atmospherical Electricity in relation to disease, 45. 



— Moisture in relation to disease, 37. 



Pressure in relation to disease, 40. 



Temperature in relation to disease, 28 ; according to 



height, 205. 



Baer, M. Von, on the frequency of thunder-storms in the Polar Re- 

 gions, 90. 



Bald, Robert, civil engineer, on edge coal-seams, 176. 



Barnacles, living, above the sea-level, 414. 



Barsowite, a new mineral species, described, 416. 



Barry, Dr Martin, his researches on embryology, third series, 84, 421. 



Barry, Dr Martin, on the corpuscles of the blood, 419. 



Beaches, sea, elevated, account of, by Alan Stevenson, LL.B, 94. 



Beryl, mine of, at Paddioor, in India, described, 241. 



Bird, fossil, in the chalk-slate of the Canton of Glarus, noticed, by 

 M. H. V. Meyer, 27. 



Bischof, Gustav, Professor, physical and chemical examination of 

 three inflammable gases which are evolved in coal-mines, 309. 



Black Sea and Caspian Sea, observations on their difference of level, 

 144. 



Blood, corpuscles of, described by Dr M. Barry, 419 ; also by Dr 

 J. Davy, 421. 



Bowman, W., on the minute structure and movements of voluntary 

 muscles, 422. 



Bravais, M., on the lines of the ancient level of the sea in Finmark, 

 164. 



Bucklandite, or Black Epidote, noticed, 417. 



Caspian Sea and Black Sea, their difference of level, 144. 



Chrysoberyl of the Urals, noticed, 417. 



Climate of the portions of Europe and Africa between the equator 

 and 60° N. Lat., observation, by Professor Schouw, 150. 



Coal-beds, edge, near Edinburgh, observations on, 176. 



Coal-gas Burners, observations on, by Dr Fyfe, 214. 



Coal-mines, examination of three inflammable gases evolved there- 

 in, 309. 



Cold-blooded Animals, researches on the vital heat of, 162. 



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