INDEX. 411 



Murchison, Mr, his ac6ouiit of the coalfield of Brora, 188. 

 Murray, John, Esq., his account of the paragrele, 103. 



Nepenthes distillatoria, Dr Graham's account of, 371. 



Nutritive properties of different kinds of food, 140. 



Nutmeg-tree, Mr Lockhart's observations on the cultivation of the, 335. 



Orang-outang, Dr Abel's account of the capture of one in Sumatra, 8 1 . 

 Ornithorynchus, the alleged species of, identical, 389. 

 , notice respecting the glandular apparatus lately dis- 

 covered on the abdomen of the, 389. 

 Osmelite, description of, 271. 

 Ossann, Prof., his chemical examination of Russian platina, 276. 



Paragrele, Mr Murray's account of the, 103. 



Patents granted in England, from 8th February to 19th May 1827, 

 205.-~from 26th May to 15th August 1827, 405. 



Patents granted in Scotland, from 21st March to 8th June 1827, 208. 

 — from 14th June to 5th September 1827, 405. 



Plants, Dr Graham's lists of rare ones flowering in the Edinburgh Bo- 

 tanic Garden, 174, 371. 



Plants, living and fossil. Count Sternberg's observations on their dis- 

 tribution, 190. 



Platina, Russian, Professor Ossann's examination of, 276. 



Platina sand, mineralogical examination of Russian, 271. 



Polar lights in Siberia, 381. 



Polishing of ivory, bone, horn, and tortoise shell, Dr Jones's method 

 of, 14. 



Potato, its native country, 192. 



Priestley, Dr Joseph, Baron Cuvier's biographical memoir of, 209. 



Prassia, number of crimes in, 396. 



Publications, new, 199, 397. 



Pyrites, description of a new species of, 271. 



Ramage, Mr C. T., his account of the materials employed by the Ro- 

 mans in their buildings, 246. 



Rattle-snake, Mr Audubon's account of its manners, 21. 



Reindeer, extracts from Captain Brookes' Travels in Lapland, respect- 

 ing it, 30. 



Rhododendron ponticum, sugar existing in its flowers in the form of 

 grains, 387. 



Robertson, Rev. Mr A.yjun., his account of an apparatus for collecting 

 gases evolved from liquids by galvanic action, 44. 



Scheererite, a new species of mineral described, 187. 

 Scot, Rev. Dr, his remarks on the fine linen of the scriptures, 71. 

 Scott, Mr W., his account of the temperature and climate of Shet- 

 Scrope, G. Poulett's memoir on the geology of central France, 402. 



land, 118. 

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

 Shetland, Mr W. Scott's remarks on the temperature and climate of, 118. 



