408 INDEX. 



Breithaupt, Professor, his account of osmelite, 271. — of a new species 

 of pyrites, 271. — of Russian platina sand, 271. 



Brocchi, Professor, notice respecting his death, 383, 



Brome detected in salt springs, 183. 



Brick tea, notice respecting, 388. 



Bruguiere, M. notice respecting his memoir on the European moun- 

 tains, 383. 



Buildings, materials used by the Romans in their, 24«6. 



Cadell, W. A. Esq. his description of the Hindoo bellows, 84. 

 Camelopard, notice respecting its horns, 388. 



notice respecting a new species of, 390. 



Caves containing fossil organic remains, rule to be followed in examin- 

 ing, 382. 

 Celestial phenomena from July 1. to October 1. 1827, 179. 



; from October 1. 1827 to January 1. 1828, 373. 



Changes which life has experienced on the globe, 298. 



Chemistry, notices in, 183, 380. 



Christie, Mr S. H. his theory of the diurnal variation of the magnetic 



needle, 356. 

 Chrome discovered in various minerals, 385. 

 Coal, M. Karsten's observations and experiments on the different kinds 



of, 60, 322. 

 Coal-field of Brora, account of the, 188. 

 Cock of the woods, account of its manners, &c. 194. 

 Cocoa nut, double, native of the Seychelles, 192. 

 Cotton of the ancients, notice regarding a memoir by M. Mongay on 



the, 387. 

 Cow-tree of the Caraccas, Mr D. Lockhart's observations regarding it, 



335. 

 Crawfurd, Mr, account of his mission to Ava, 359. 

 Crimes in Prussia, 396. 

 Cross, luminous, in the heavens, 380. 

 Curved lamellar heavyspar, a new species, 386. 

 Cuvier, Baron, his biographical memoir of M. Adanson, 1 — ofDr 



Priestley, 209. 

 M. Frederick, his observations on the domestication of mam- 



miferous animals, 303. 



Daubeny, Dr Charles Henry, his tabular view of volcanic phenomena, 

 402. 



Dichroite polarizes light, 178. 



Disasters of Tivoli, 301. 



Diurnal variation of the magnetic needle, Mr S. H. Christie's theory 

 of the, 356. 



Dolphin, M. F. Tiedeman's account of the brain of the common, 296. 



Domestication of fcammiferous animals, M. Frederick Cuvier's re- 

 marks on the, 303. 



Don, Mr, his notice respecting the cow-tree and nutmeg, 336. 



Dunlop, Mr James, his experiments with bottles sunk in the sea, 318. 



