440 Index. 



Kaemtz, L. F., Professor, remarks on the more important atmo- 

 spherical p])en(»raena, 244. 



Kelso, observations on its g^eclogy, 144. 



Kissingen, intermitting brine spring of, described by Professor 

 Forbes, 306. 



Lea, Isaac, observations on the genus unio, noticed, 213. 

 Lightning and thunder, observations on, by Arago, 81, 275. 



Maclaren, Mr, geology of Fife and the Lothians, noticed, 431. 



Melloni, M., upon the alleged influence which the roughness and 

 the polish of surfaces exercise upon the emissive power of bo- 

 dies, in reference to the experiments of Professor Sir John 

 Leslie, 299. 



Murchison, Mr, on the silurian system, noticed, 430. 



Neptunism, views that appear to be in favour of, by N. Fuchs of 

 Munich, 182. 



Patents, list of, granted in Scotland from 15th September to 14th 

 December 1838, 214 — from 14th December to 15th March 

 1839, 434. 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, proceedings of, 422. 



Russell, John Scott, F. R. S., on the vibration of suspension bridges 



and other structures, and the means of preventing injury from 



this cause, 38G. 



Sang, Edward, F. R. S. E., notice of an erroneous method of using 

 the theodolite, with a strict analysis of the effects of various 

 arrangements of readers, 173 — on a method of obtaining the 

 greatest possible degree of exactitude from the data of a sur- 

 vey, 327. 



Shepard, Charles, M. D., report of the geological survey of Con- 

 necticut, noticed, 213. 



Smith's Zoology of Southern Africa, noticed, 434. 



Stevenson, David, civil-engineer, sketch of the civil-engineering of 

 North America, noticed, 206. 



Thunder and lightning, observations on, by Arago, 81, 275. 



Ure, Andrew, M. D., dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines, 

 noticed, 213. 



Wauchope, Robert, Capt. R. N., on quantity of saline matter in 

 sea water in lat. 0°, 33' N., and long. 8°, 16' E. ; also result of 

 experiments on temperature of the sea at great depths, and 

 account of gale of wind off the Cape of Good Hope, 399. 



Wernerian Natural History Society, proceedings of, 426 — memoirs 

 of, for 1831-37, noticed, 208.* 



Zetterstedt, J. W., Insecta Lapponica, noticed, 209. 

 Zoologv^tlTe^yage of H. M. Beagle, noticed, 433. 



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