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INDEX. 



Abel, Dr Clark, his account of the capture of a colossal orang-outang 

 in Sumatra, 81. 



Adanson, Michel, Baron Cuvier's biographical memoir of, 1. 



Animal tissues fibrous, 390. 



Animals, mammiferous, M. Frederick Cuvier's essay on the domestica- 

 tion of, 303. 



Apatite in secondary trap and trachyte, 386. 



contains fluoric and muriatic acids, 385. 



Arctic expedition, overland, notice respecting the, 347. 



Amott, G. A. W. Esq. his tour to the south of France and the Pyre- 

 nees, 157, 350. 



Arsenic, its taste, 183. 



its preservative power on the bodies of persons poisoned with 



it, 184. 



Arts, notices in the, 393. 



Art, works of, discovered in the ruins of Selinus, 165. 



Asiatic elephant, height of the, 388. 



Audubon, John James, Esq. his account of the habits and manners of 

 the rattlesnake, 21. 



Aurora borealis, seen in the day-time, 378. 



Aurora borealis, Mr Blackader's account of one seen at Edinburgh, 

 16th January 1827, 342. 



— observed at Milnegraden and Roslin, 29th August 



and 9th September 1827, 379. 



Auvergne, fossil mammifera lately discovered in, 383. 



Ava, account of Mr Crawfurd's mission to, 359. 



Baird, W. Esq. his notice respecting the habits of LemUr tardigradus, 

 195. 



Barlow. Peter, Esq. his remarks on Captain Sabine's experiments on 

 the dip and intensity of the magnetic needle, 142. 



Barometrical observations, method of reducing them to a standard tem- 

 perature, 377. 



Biographical memoir of Dr Priestley, 209. 



of M. Adanson, 1. 



notice of Count de Lacepede, 270. 



Birds, Mr W- Macgillivray's description of the covering of, 253. 

 Blackader, David, Esq. his account of an aurora borealis observed at 



Edinburgh, 16th January 1827, 342. 

 Boracic acid in mica, 386. 

 Botany, ijiotices in, 192, 386. 

 Bottles sunk in the sea, Mr Dunlop's experiments with, 318* 



