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INDEX. 



Adam, Dr Walter, on the osteology of the hippopotamus, 361 

 Advantages of a Short Arc of Vibration for the Clock Pendulum, 



by Edward Sang, 137 

 Agassiz, Professor, his great work on Fossil Fishes noticed, 40 J 

 Analyses, chemical, of stratified rocks altered by Plutonian Agency ; 



also of the basaltic rock of Largo Law, and the WoUastonite of 



Corstorphine Hill, 388 

 Anatomy and Physiology, comparative, work on, by Dr Grant and 



others, noticed, 403 

 Animals, numerical relations of, from Linnseus to the present time, 2*21 

 Antediluvian ambergris, 399 

 Arago on ground-ice, 123— on the influence of the moon on rain, 



vegetation, and diseases, 188 

 Arnott, Walker, F. R. S. his characters of new or little known genera 



of plants, 176, 378 

 Arts, Society of, the proceedings, 204, 393. — Prizes offered by, 205 

 Atmospliere, colour of, considered, 348 — absolute weight during Cho- 

 lera, &c. proved to be greater than at other times, 393 — weight 



of, at new and full moon, 397 

 Avalanches in Gmsla, 192 



Barometric Tables for the use of Geologists and other scientific travel- 

 lers, noticed, 400 



Basaltic rock of Largo Law, account of, 388 



Belemnites found in Talc-slate, 399 



Boyle's work on the Botany and Natural History of the Himalaya 

 Mountains, noticed, 403 



Bridgewater Treatises, notice of, 402 



British rocks, specific gravity of, 194 



Candolle on the Age of Trees, 330 



Carnelian, inflammable matter in it noticed, 296 



Carrara marble, discovery in regard to which, by Hoffmann, 1 94 



Celestial Phenomena from July 1. to October 1. 1833, 106 — from 



October 1. 1833 to January 1. 1834, 389 

 Christie, Dr Alexander TurnbuU, proceedings of, 153 — his death and 



character, 156 

 Chrome, results of experiments on the economical and medical uses of 



its oxides and salts, by Prof. Jacobson of Copenhagen, 1 57 

 Clay for sculptors, 201 



Coden, observations on its characters and affinities, by David Don, 53 

 Cuvier, Baron, his Eloge, by President Pasquier, ci^cluded, 164 — 



his eloge of Sir H. Davy, 1 — his eloge of Vauquelin, 209 

 Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology, by Professor Grant and others, 



noticed, 403 



