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INDEX. 



Adie, Mr John, his method of drilling, turning, and working glass 

 by means of turpentine, 149. 



Air, quantity and proportion of atmospheric, in water, 370. — effects 

 of compressed, on the human body, 384. 



Arago, M., his questions for solution rehiting to meteorology, hydro- 

 graphy, and the art of navigation, 21. 



Arsenic, on a new method of separating small quantities from sub- 

 stances with which it may be mixed, by James Marsh, Esq. of 

 Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 229. — poisoning by, cured by the 

 hydrated tritoxide of iron, 385. 



Arts, proceedings of the Society of, 164. 



Atkinson, Mr Joseph, his meteorological table, 114. 



Association, proceedings of the British, at Bristol in August 

 1836, 319. 



Auvergne, on the geology of, 1. 



Bache, Professor A. D., his inquiry in relation to the alleged influ- 

 ence of colour on the radiation of non-luminous heat, 249. 



Barlow, Rev. R. J., his account of a new patent spring for car- 

 riages, 308. 



Barometer, state of the, thermometer, &c., at Whithavenfor 1835, 

 115, 



Barry, Dr M., notice of his work entitled * An Ascent to the Sum- 

 mit of Mont Blanc,' 186. 



Beaumont, Elie de, his observations on the temperature of the 

 earth's surface during the tertiary period, 206. 



Berzelius, M., his considerations on a new power which acts in the 

 formation of organic bodies, 223. 



Blood, on an easy method of obtaining, where the vein does not 

 yield it readily, 385. 



Bodies, animal, on the organic structure of, 299. 



Buch, Leopold, on volcanos and craters of elevation, 189. 



Calcareous spar prism, use of Nicol's, in discovering shoals in the 

 ocean, 370. 



Carrara, on the geology of Massa, by Professor F. Hoffman, 116. 



Castrian, the level of the, much below that of the ocean, 180. 



Cerigo, on the natural history and statistics of, 263. 



Charpentier, J. Von, his observations on the glaciers of the Canton 

 of Vallais, 210. 



Chalk, on the, and calcaire grossier of Meudon, 378. 



Chemistry and Mineralogy, proceedings of the section of, of the Bri- 

 tish Association; 325, 335, 350, 359, 367. 



Coca, dreadful effects of the immoderate use of, 382. 



Colour, on the influence of, on non-luminous heat, 247. 



Crabs, on the changes which the stomachs of, undergo during the 

 period of casting their shells, 381. 



Craters of elevation, observations on, by Leopold Von Buch, 189. 



DalzelJ, John Graham, Esq., his farther illust ratio is of the propa- 

 gation of Scottish zoophytes, 88. 



