432 ^ Index. 



Schouw, Professor, observations on the climate of the portions of 

 Europe and Africa which are situated between the equator and 

 60° North latitude, 150. 



Sea-beaches, elevated, notice of, by Alan Stevenson, civil-engineer, 

 94. 



Sefstrom's investigations on the furrows on rocks, 185. 



Serapis, temple of, observations on the, 414. 



Shark, luminous, account of, 196. 



Shuttleworth, R. X, his observations on the colouring matter of red 

 snow, 54. 



Smith, Dr, Illustrations of the Zoology of Southern Africa, noticed, 

 424. 



Snow, red, observations on, by Mr Shuttleworth, 54. 



Soundings, enormous, at sea, 414. 



Stevenson, Alan, LL.B. on elevated sea-beaches, 94. 



Strontianite, considerable veins of, noticed, 417. 



Studer, M., on some phenomena of the diluvial epoch, 274. 



on the origin of granite, and on the application of the 



Huttonian theory to the present state of geology, 29j 



Sunstone, discovery of its repository, 416. 



Sutherland, discovery of native gold in, 418. 



Swans, wild, observations on, 423. 



Tachylite, a new mineral species, described, 416. 



Temperature of the atmosphere, observations oiT^*sfil5^:.JE&^sor 

 Forbes, 205. 



Terrestrial temperature, observations on, by M. Dove, 181. 



Thermometer, registering, improvement of, by John Dunn, optician, 

 279. 



Thunder-storms, on the frequency of, in Polar regions, 90. 



Tides of the Mediterranean, their height, 414. 



Timber, on the preservation of, 199, 



Tschewkinite, a new mineral species, described, 418. 



Towers, circular, on the construction of, by Edward Sang, A.M., 

 245. 



Traill, Dr, on the food of the humming bird, 177- 



Trochilus and crocodile of Herodotus, remarks on, 197- 



Urano-tantalite, a new mineral species, described, 418. 



Wernerian Natural History Society, proceedings of, 175. 



Westwood, J. 0., F. L. S., his introduction to the modern classifi- 

 cation of insects, noticed, 200. 



Whewell, W., B.D., on the relation of tradition to palsetiology, 

 258. 



Zirknitz, lake of, in Carniola, described, 72. 



Zoological notices regarding cephalopoda, 167. — Circulation of 

 blood in pyrosoma, 168. — Circulation and nervous system in the 

 salpa, 169. — On carinaria, 169. — Echini, 170. — Hydrostatic 

 acalephse, 170. — Holothuria, 170. — Circulation in Beroe ovatus, 

 170. — Coralline polypidoms, 171- 



Zoophytes found on the coast of Arran, 423. 



