INDEX. 



Iodine in English salt springs, 182 — ato- 

 mic weight of, 372 

 Ischia, Mr Forbes's account of the Island 



of, 326 

 Is(^eothermal lines, account of the^ 251 

 Johnston, Mr J. F. W., account of his 



visit to Berzelius, 180 

 Knox, Dr, his theory of hennaphrodism, 



322 — of the respiratory organs, 325 

 Kupffer, Mm his ascent to Mont El- 



broutz, 134-- on isc^eothermal lines, 



251 

 Lethargy of animals. 111 

 Light, its effects on liquids, 370 

 Lizards, notice of their appearance in 



unusual circumstances, 183 

 Magnesite discovered in Anglesey, 155. 

 Magnetism of the solar rays, 228. 

 Marianini, M., on an analogy between 



electricity and light, 232. 

 Marshall, Mr S. his meteorological ob- 

 servations at Kendal, 186. 

 Matteucci, Charles M., on the influence 



of electricity on animal putrefaction, 



230 

 Melanorrhcea usitata, on the new genus 



of, 66 

 Metals, researches on the structure of, as 



indicated by their acoustic properties, 



104 

 Meteor seen at Plymouth, 371 

 Meteoric iron, notice respecting, 371 

 Meteoric stone, analysis of, 373 

 Meteorological observations at Kendal, 



186 at Canaan Cottage, 188— in the 



Isle of Man, 249 

 Microscopes, reflecting, on elliptic metals 



for them, 321 

 Mineral pitch discovered in Cornwall, 



374 

 Mmeral water of Ronnely, 371 

 Mirage in Central India, 268 

 Monte Nuovo, account of, 79 

 Mullets of Europe, BarOn Cuvier on 



the, 61 

 Naples, physical notices of the Bay of, 



75, 326 

 Nitrate of silver, reduction of, 371 

 Oxmantown, Lord, on large reflecting 



telescopes, 136 

 Oxygen in lithia, 1 82 

 Patents, list of English ones granted 



since 1675, 43— list of Scottish ones, 



375 

 Physical geography, contributions to, 129 

 Pritchard, Mr, on the aberration of a 



diamond lens, 317 

 Procida, Mr Forbes's account of the 



island of, 326 

 Putrefaction in animals, as affected by 



electricity, 230 

 Ramond, Baron, life of, i 



Reid, Mr D. B., his work on practical 

 chemistry analyzed, 175 



Respiratory organs, Dr Knox's theory 

 of, 325 



Riess and Moser, MM., on the m^ne- 

 tism of the solar rays, 225 



Ritchie, Mr W., ou the theories of gal- 

 vanism, 150 



Rohan, Cardinal de, anecdotes of, 5 



Ronnely, mineral water of, 371 



Russia, account of the scientific resear- 

 ches lately carried on there, 286 



Savart, M., his researches on the struc- 

 ture of metals, 1 04 



Scott, Alex, Esq., account of his new 

 steam engine, 21 



Screws, method of cutting, by Mr James 

 Clark, 273 



Ship-building, analysis of the article in 

 the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 163— • 

 355 



Siamese twins, account of, 122 



Society, Cambridge Philosophical, pro- 

 ceedings of, 180 — Society, Royal, of 

 Edinburgh, its proceedings, 177 — So- 

 ciety of Arts for Scotland, proceedings 

 of, 177 



Spectral illusions, account of a remarka- 

 ble case of, 218, 319 



Spix and Martius, MM., their excursion 

 to the diamond district of Brazil, 241 



Staten Island, productions of, 26 



Steam engines in Cornwall, account of 

 their performance, 102, 247 



Steam engine, account of a new one 

 without a boiler, 2 1 



Steam, on its use in destroying vermin in 

 ships, 157 



Telescope of Dorpat, dispute respecting 

 it, 182 



Telescopes, reflecting, account of Lord 

 Oxmantown's experiments on, 136 



Temperature of the ground as ascertain- 

 ed by springs, 251 



Thorina and its salts described, 223 



Tod, Colonel, on the mirage in Central 

 India, 268 



Tungkin, cavern in described, 263 



Turner, Dr E. his chemical examination 

 of wad, 213 — on the Atacama iron, 

 371 



Twins, Siamese, account of, 122— ano« 

 ther case of united twins described, 374 



Varnish tree, on the Burmese one, 66 



Vermin in ships, method of destroying 

 them by Steam, 157 



Volcano in Australasia, 27O 



Wad, chemical examation of by Dr E. 

 Turner, 213 



Wallich, Dr, on the Burmese varnish 

 tree, Melanorrhea usitata, 66 



Webster, Captain, on the productions of 

 Staten Island and Cape Horn, 26 



EDINBURGH ! 

 IRIXTED «Y JOHN STARK, 



