Index. 415 



Martins, Ch., on the colour of the ice of glaciers, and that of the 

 waters which flow from them, 86. 



Mastodon, food of, 185. 



Meikle, H., on the theory of parallel Hnes, 265. 



Melloni, M., on the theory of dew, 128. 



Milne, David, Esq. F.R,S,E., on the parallel roads of Glen Roy, 

 with remarks on the change of relative levels of sea and land 

 in Scotland, 339. 



Mineral water of the haths of Nevis in the West Indies, 1 . 



Mines, temperature, of, 99, 102. 



Moon, volcanoes of, described by J. D. Dana, 10. 



Morton, George, M.D., on the hybridity of animals and plants, 

 considered in reference to the question of the unity of the hu- 

 man species, 262. 



Mulder, Professor, on the protein question, 162. 



Murchison, R. I., brief review of the classification of the sedhnen- 

 tary rocks of Cornwall, 33. — On the meaning originally at- 

 tached to the term " Cambrian St/stem,'^ and on the evidence 

 since obtained of its being geologically synonymous with the 

 previously established term " Lower Silurian,''^ 147. 



Nitrification, observations on, 187. 



Ocean, temperature of its greatest known depth, 402. 



Pain, on its beneficial distribution, by Mr G. A. Eowell, 385. 



Parallel lines, the theory of, by H. Meikle, Esq., 255. 



Patents granted for Scotland, from 22d March to 21st September 



1847, 195, 408. 

 Peruvian bark, collecting of, 190. 

 Phosphate of lime in organic beings, 187. 

 Pomel, A. on the palaeontology of Auvergne, 6. 

 Prichard, J. C, M.D., F.R.S., on Ethnology, 307. 

 Protein question considered, by Professor Mulder, 162. 

 Publications, New, 193, 408. 



Quinua,or Chenopodium quinoa,as a partial substitute for potato, 189. 



Rocks, pyrogenous, and their accessory elements, 396. 



Sea, its low temperature over sand-banks, 402. 



Secular variation of the relative level of the sea and land, 397. 



