INDEX TO VOL. II. 



NEW SERIES. 



Aberration of a diamond lens, 317 

 Achromatic object-glasses purchased by 



Mr South, 181 

 Adie, Mr, his meteorological observa- 

 tions, 188, 380 

 Albumen, new principles in, 183, 

 Aldini, M., his incombustible dresses 



described, 207 

 Algag Britannicae, analysis of Dr Gre- 



ville's work on, 360 

 Allophane, analysis of, 173 

 Anemometer, account of a new one, 31 

 Avernus lake, account of, 86 

 Baja, account of the district of the Bay 



of, 75 

 Becquerel, M., on the decomposition of 



carburet of sulphur by small electric 



forces, 183 

 Bertrand de Doue, M., on the fossil bones 



of St Privat-d'Allier, 276 

 Berzelius, M., account of a visit to, 189 



— on thorina and its salts, 223 

 Birds of Madeira, Dr Heineken on the, 



145 

 Brewster, Dr, on a new series of periodical 



colours produced by grooved surfaces, 



46 

 Bromine in English salt springs, 182— 



atomic weight of, 372 

 Cagliostro, the juggler, account of, 6 

 Carburet of sulphur, decomposition of, 



by small electric forces, 183 

 Caverns in Tungkin described, 263— of 



Booban, 268 

 Celestial phenomena, 188, 376 

 Chemistry, practical, Mr Reid's work on, 



notice of, 175 

 Chromale of iron in Shetland, 374 

 Clark, Mr James, his new method of 



cutting screws, 273 

 Cold, on its action on animals, HI 

 Colours, periodical, on a new series of, 



produced by grooved surfaces, 46 

 Cervus Euryceros, on the history of the, 



301 

 Cuthbert, Mr, his process for working 



elliptic specula for reflecting micro- 

 scopes, 321 

 Cuvier, Baron, his life of Baron Ramond, 



1 — on the mullets of Europe, 61 

 Diamond district of Brazil, excursion to 



the, 241 

 Diamonds, account of their discovery in 



Russia, 261 

 Diamond lens, on the aberration of one, 



317 



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Dutrochet, M., on the eflfeets of light on 

 liquids, 370 



Earthquakes in India, 333, their connec- 

 tion with variations of the barometer, 

 333, note 



Elbroutz, account of the ascent of, 134 



Electricity and light, on an analogy be- 

 tween them, 232 



Faraday, Mr, on the manufacture of 

 Flint-Glass for Achromatic Teleicopes, 

 181, 369 



Flint-Glass for achromatic telescopes, 

 experiments on, 181, 368 



Flourens, M., on hybernation and lethar- 

 gy and the action of cold on animals. 111 



Forbes, J. D., Esq., on a new anemome- 

 ter, 31 — on the district of the Bay of 

 Baja, 75 — on the islands of Frocida 

 and Ischia, 326 



Fossil Elk of Ireland, history of the, 301 



Fossil bones of St- Privat-d'Allier dis- 

 covered in Basalt, 276 



Fumarole described, 347 



Galvanism, on the electrical and chemical 

 theories of, 150 



Gersuppa, the falls of, described, 129 



Greville, Dr, on the Algse Britannicse, 

 360 



Grooved surfaces, on the periodical co- 

 lours of, 46 



Hansteen, M., notice of his magnetic 

 journey, 291, 295 



Hermaphrodism, theory of Dr Knox's 

 322 



Hibbert, Dr, discovers fossil bones in 

 Basalt in the province of Velay, 276 

 — ^n the history of the Cervus Eury- 

 ceros, 301 



Henry, Dr W., on the discovery of mag- 

 nesite in Anglesey, 155 



Kenwood, Mr W. J., on the performance 

 of steam engines in Cornwdl, 102, 247 

 — on the discovery of mineral pitch in 

 Cornwall, 374 



Himalaya Mountams, on the climate of, 

 133 



Horn Cape, productions of, 26 



Humboldt, Baron Alexander, his dis- 

 course pronounced at the Academy of 

 St Petersburg, 286 



Hybernation of animals, 111 



Incombustible dresses of M. Aldini de- 

 scribed, 207 



Insects, history of, in the Family Library, 

 No. 7) analysed, 



