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INDEX. 



Alford, Dr Murray's memoir respecting the natural history of, 133 

 Amott, G. A. W., Esq. continuation of his tour in the south of France 



and the Pyrenees, 250 

 Ascent of Mercury on wires of iron, Mr Kemp's account of the, 340 

 Atmospheric air, weight of, 185 

 Aurora horealis, notice respecting the, 392 



Beauvois, Baron de, Baron Cuvier's hiographical memoir of, 1 

 Benlomond, barometiical measurement of, by Mr Galbraith, 121 

 Birds of the Isle of May, notice respecting the, 189 

 Bize, human bones found in the caves of, 383 

 Blowpipe, Mr. Kemp's description of an improved, 340 

 Botany, notices in, 193 

 Brittle silver-glance, notice respecting, 187 



Brongniart, M. Adolphe, his general view of the vegetation of the 

 earth at the different epochs of the formation of its crust, 349 — • 

 notice respecting his Histoire des Vegetaux Fossiles, 394 3 

 Buckland, Professor, on the supposed petrifying quality of the Irawadi, 67 

 Burke, Dr W., on an invalid depot in the Himalayah Mountains, 287 

 Bushnan, Mr J. S. on a new locality for Linnsea borealis, 30 



Calcareous spar, Mr Nicol's account of a method of increasing the di^ 



vergency of the two rays in, 83 

 Calder, W. Esq., his general view of the geology of India, 152 

 Carbon, Mr Kemp's experiments on its electro-magnetic properties 



when in a state of combustion, 340 

 Celestial phenomena for the meridian of Edinburgh, from January 1. to 



April 1829, 178 from April 1. to July 1. 1829, 383 



Chameleon, Mr Spittal on the natural history of the, 292 

 Changes in animals, M. Roulin's observations on the, 190 

 Chemical observations, miscellaneous, Dr J. Davy's, 1 28 

 Christie, Dr, his sketches of the Southern Mahratta country, 98 

 Church bells, apparatus for sounding, invented in Denmark, 198 

 Cichoraceae, Mr D. Don's attempt at a new classification of the, 305 

 Climate, Dr Fleming on the alleged high temperature of that of the 



Arctic Regions at a former period, 277 

 Colouring of the leaves in autumn, 270 



Columellia, Fovaria, and Francoa, Mr Don's description of, 46 

 Compression, theory of, applied to the internal constitution of the 



earth, 84 

 Connell, A. Esq., his analysis of several species of zeolites, 262 

 Cordier, M. L., bis examination of experiments relative to subterranean 



temperature, 8^ V ; ■ 



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