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INDEX 



Africa, Southern, observations on, in a letter to Sir James M'Gri- 

 gor, 377 



Alison,. Dr, his Elements of Physiology noticed, 208 



Alexander, Captain J. E. his account of the Pitch Lake in Trinidad, 94 



Ancient geological changes in England, by Dr Fitton, 300 



Army regulations in regard to the study of natural history and bo- 

 tany, 208 



Arnot and Wight on some rare genera of plants, 297 



Arsenical pyrites, analysis of, by Hoffmann, 194« 



Barbadoes, hurricane of 1831, 180 



Barometric Measurements of the height of Cheviot, by Sir T. M. 

 Brisbane and Mr Galbraith, 69 



Bhurtpore district, geology of, by Hardie, 76 



Birds, on their youth, age, diseases, sleep, and death, by Fr. Faber, 97 

 — their instincts considered, by Mr Blackwall, 241 



Blackwall on the instincts of birds, 24 1 



Blesson, Major, his observations on the ignis fatuus, or Will-with«the- 

 wisp, and thunder-storms, 90 



Brewster, Sir David, on the colours of natural bodies, 393 



Brisbane, Sir Thomas M., his barometrical measurement of the Che- 

 viots, 69 



Bones, gelatine of, 182 



Buch, Baron Von, his observations on the silicification of oi^anic bo* 

 dies, 53 



Butter, on the quantity of, consumed in Britain, 199 



Campagna di Roma, malaria of, 1 14 



Canada, dark days of, 221 



Caspian Sea, observations on the geology of, by M. Eichwald of Wil- 

 na, 122, 324 



Casting statues in metal, thoughts on, 364 



Cave at Cefn in Denbighshire, account of, by the Rev. E. Stanley, 40 



Celestial Phenomena for the meridian of Edinburgh, from January 1. to 

 April 1. 1833, 177_from April 1. to July 1. 1833, 374 



Chabasites, analyses of, 194 



Cheviots, height of, determined by Sir Thomas Brisbane and Mr Gal- 

 braith, 69 



Comparative temperature of whites and negroes, 181 



Compass, on the deviation of, by the Rev. William Scoresby, 80 



Coniferaj, observations on those at present growing in Australia, by D. 

 Don, F.L.S., 158 



Connell, Arthur, account of an acid liquid obtained through the agen- 

 cy of potash, and on the nature of the lampic acid, 231 



Continent, new, account of, 378 



