INDEX. 



set 



Occultations of Aldebaran, 366 



Optics, Mr Coddington's treatise on, 359 



Orang outang, account of a female one, 

 369 



Packfong, on the manufacture of, 167 



Patents for Scotland, 188, 374 



Physical Geography, contributions to, 

 •299 



Physical notices of the Bay of Naples, 

 No. iv., 124,— No. v., 260 



Pouillet, M. on the electricity of elastic 

 fluids, 47 



Prevost, M., on the generation of ani- 

 mals, 334 



Principles of natural philosophy, M. Ex- 

 ley's analyzed, 350 



Pritchard, Mr, on the art of making 

 diamond lenses, 147 — his work on 

 the microscope analyzed and recom- 

 mended, 353 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, 177 — of the Society of Arts for 

 Scotland, 177, 363 — of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, 178 — of the 

 Royal Irish Academy, 179 — of the 

 Northern Inverness Institution, 364 



Ramsay, Rev. E. B., his life of Sir J. 

 E. Smith, 1 



Reflexion of light at the surfaces of dif- 

 ferent media, 209 



Saigey, M., on the law of magnetism in 

 motion, 183 



Sankey, W. S., Esq. on the action of ca- 

 loric in expanding solids and fluids, 17 



Saturn, ring of, M. Struve's new obser- 

 vations on, 181 



Savart, M., on the elasticity of regular 

 crystallized bodies, 141 



Schouw, Professor, analysis of his work 

 on physical geography, 1 69 



Sea- sickness, embrocation for curing it, 

 349 



Seleniuret of silver, 185 



Silex, hydrate of, 185 — Crystals of in 

 anthracite, 185 



Silliman, Professor, on an avalanche in 

 the White Mountains, 299 



Simiri, a gum of Guiana, described, 240 



Slickensides, account of die explosion of, 



186 ^ 



Smith, Sir J. E. biographical notice of, 1 

 Smith, Thomas, Esq. on a case of ex- 

 traordinary developement in a boy 6 



years old, 26 

 Soemmering, M., on the ripening of 



wines by bladders, 165 

 Solar Tables, Professor Airy and Bes- 



sal's corrections on them, 180 

 Solfatara of Pozzuoli, 124 

 Soup, on the quantity obtained from 



bones, 291 

 Steam Engines in Cornwall, quarterljr 



account of, 65, 289 

 Steel, colours on, their phenomena, 351 

 Stones, on the motion of large ones in 



lakes and ponds, 313 

 Struve, Frofessor, on Saturn's ring, 181 



— on Jupiter and his satellites, 183 

 Swinton's, Mr, account of a female orang 



outang, 369 

 Thermosiphon, Mr Fowler's, described, 



345 

 Thomson, Dr Thomas, on the sponta- 

 neous emission of inflammable gas near 



Bedlay, 67 

 Thorina, a new earth, 207 

 Thorite, a new mineral, described, 207 

 Thraulite, a new mineral, analysis of, 185 

 Turtles, observations on, 244 — the Tor- 



tuga, 244 — the Matta-matta, 245 

 Vesicamo, a new resin, 243 

 Volcano in Australasia, 373 

 Watson, White, Mr, on the explosion of 



Slickensides, 186 

 Weissite, a new mineral, described, 184 

 Wilcox, Mr, on an avalanche in the 



White Mountains, 302 

 Wines, on the evaporation and ripening 



of, by bladders, 1 65 

 Wollaston, Dr, his microscopic doublet 



described, 323 

 Young, Dr Thomas, on the colours in 



Fraunhofer's experiments, 112 

 Zuccaro, Vincenzio, a boy 7 years old, 



his remarkable talent for calculation, 



320 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATES IN VOL L 



NEW SERIES. 



PLATE I, Represents a Boy six years of age, remarkable for his extraordinary 



Physical Developement. See p. 26. 

 PLATE II. Fig. 1, Mr John Adie's Improved Dew-point Hygrometer. See p. 61. 

 Fig. 2, Section of the Strata at Bedlay from which Gas spontaneously 



issued. See p. 68. 

 Fig. 3 Represents Dr Brewster's Gas Blowpipec See p. 106. 



