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408 INDEX. 



Owen, Richard, his memoir on the pearly Nautilus, or Nautilus pom- 

 pilius, noticed, 207 



Patents, list of, gianted in Scotland from September 18. 183?, to March 



13. 1833, 207,404. 

 Pearly Nautilus, memoir on, noticed, 207 

 Pearls, on the formation of, 185 



Pentland, Mr, his observations on fossil bones from New Holland, 120 

 Pitch lake of Trinidad, notice of, by Captain Alexander, 94 

 Planariae, observations on, by Faraday, 183 



Respiration of the lower animals, observations on, 382 



Robison, John, his thoughts on the casting of statues in metal, 364 



Rome, on the physical constitution of, 1 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, its proceedings fully reported, 394 



Sang, Edward, his remarks on the relation which subsists between a 



machine and its model, 145 — his new solution of a case of 



spherical trigonometry, 311 

 Scoresby, William, his observations on the deviation of the compass ; 



with examples of its fatal influence in some melancholy and 



dreadful shipwrecks, 30 

 Seal found in the interior of New Holland, 382 

 Silicification of organic bodies, observations on, 53 

 Silver mines of Kongsberg, 194 



Society for Encouragement of the Useful Arts, proceedings of, 402 

 Stanley, Rev. Edward, memoir on a bone-cave visited by him in Den- 



bigshire, 40 

 Stone, Dr, his observations on the frontal sinus, 82 

 Stature of the human race, 1 82 

 Sulphate of lime, fertilizing property of, 195 

 Symmetry, on the limit of the law of, and the forces which determine 



the forms of inorganic bodies, 132 



Temperature, comparative, of whites and negroes, 181 

 Tiedemann on the reproduction of nerves, 187 

 Trigonometry, spherical, on a new solution of a case in, 311 



Ultramarine, French, 197 



Vienna, meeting of naturalists, account of, 189 



Water, secretion of, by certain plants, 195 



Water spout, notice of one by Mr Mackintosh, 180 



Watson, Hewitt, observations made during the summer 1832, on the 



temperature and vegetation of the Scottish Highland mountains, 



317 

 Will-with-the-wisp, observations on, 90 

 Witham, Henry, his observations on the Lepidodendron Harcourtii, 



367 



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