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fM^ei^ on'tlie black precipitate of pla- 

 tinum, and on platinum powder, vi. 

 362, 363, notes ; on the discovery of 

 silicuret of platinum, i. 267, note; on 

 the protection of steel from the action 

 of the atmosphere by zinc, vii. 392, 

 note ; on the nature of a fluid obtained 

 in the manufacture of pyroxylic spirit, 

 as described by Mr. Scanlan, vii. 396, 

 note ; table of high temperatures cor- 

 rected from Prof. Daniell's pyrometri- 

 eal researclies, vi. 249 ; see xii. 535, note ; 

 letter to, from M r. l^rideaux, on the dew- 

 point, on the detection of foreign mat- 

 ters in the atmosphere, xi. 54 ; his re- 

 vised edition of •' Parkes's Chemical 

 Catechism," review of, vi. 214 ; on the 

 orijjrin of the diamond, iii. 220, no/e; on 

 hydrocarbonate of lime, 'iii. 86, note ; 

 v. 1 96, 1 97, notes ; on the formation of 

 Entophyta in the vomicae and bron- 

 chial tubes of a Flamingo, as described 

 by Mr. Owen, ii. llynote; discrimina- 

 tion between the two Javanese poisons 

 usually confounded together under the 

 name of Upas, vi, 218; remarks on 

 Sir E. F. Bromhead's paper on bota- 

 nical classification, xi, 137,253, note; 

 proposal to employ the word affinal in 

 natural history, v. 206, mUe ; on the 

 affinal connexion of mammalia with 

 birds through the Ornithorynchus,&c., 

 as indicated by the structure of tlie cry- 

 stalline lens, iii, 447, note ; notice of a 

 memoir on the natural laws which ap- 

 pear to regulate the distribution of the 

 powers of producing heat and light 

 among the different groups of the ani- 

 mal kingdom, vi. 241; on the natural 

 history of the Papuans, or Asiatic ne- 

 groes, i. 466 ; on the tendency to a cir- 

 cular succession of affinities in the 

 group of Simite, vi. 462, 7iote ; on the 

 frequent deficiency of the ungueal pha- 

 lanx in the hallux of the orang ou- 

 tang, vii. 72 ; on the maneless lion, iv. 

 379, note ; on a gigantic carp, xi. 223 ; 

 on tlie silent flight of Musca vomitoria, 

 X. 827 ; on the relation between the 

 extinct and living animals confined to 

 America, xi. 208, note ; ontlie equiva- 

 lent, in the Danish island of Seeland, 

 of the coralline crag of England, vii. 

 413, note; on the denudation of val- 

 leys, i. 339, note ; on the agency of 

 heat in the consolidation of the new 

 Ted sandstone, vii. 515, note; on the 

 porphyritic amygdaloid of Devonshire, 

 xii. 568, note ; on the theory of rolca- 

 Tios, xii. 533, 588, note ; on the state 

 of knowledge and theory on the al- 

 leged periodical meteors, xi. 273 ; on 



the fall of meteorites at Magdeburg in 

 the year 998, iii. 454, note ; review of 

 the Report of the First and Second 

 Meetings of the British Association, 

 ii. 455 ; iii. 1 29 ; of Mr. Conybeare's 

 Report on Geology, iv. 427 ; of Mr. 

 Lubbock's Mathematical Tracts, iv. 

 218; of Abstracts of Papers printed 

 in the Philosophical Transactions, iv. 

 47 ; of the West of England Journal 

 of Science and Literature, vi. 293. 



Breath, on holding it for a lengthened 

 period, iii. 241. 



Breccia and iodine, xi. 216. 



, hydriodate of, xi. 216; iodate of, 



xi. 217. 



Breithaupt's Mineralogy, notice of, v. 

 237 ; viii. 173. 



Brett (R. H.) on the existence of titanic 

 acid in Hessian crucibles, vi. 113 ; on 

 the solvent action of muriate and ni- 

 trate of ammonia, x. 95, 333 ; on the 

 bromo-cyanide and chloro-cyanide of 

 potassium and mercury, xi. 340 ; ana- 

 lysis of some double salts of mercurj^ 

 xii. 235. .; 



Brewster (Sir D.) on M. Rudberg's me- 

 moir on crystals, i. 6, 146, 415; on a 

 new species of coloured fringes, i, 19; 

 on the effect of compression and dilata- 

 tion on the retina, i. 89; letter to, from 

 M. KuptFer, on inagnetical discove- 

 ries, i. 129; on magneiical and meteor- 

 ological observations made at Pekin, i. 

 130 ; on his formula for mean tempe- 

 rature, i. 155 ; on undulations excited in 

 the retina, i. 169; notes on Prof. Kupf- 

 fer's observations on the temperature of 

 Nicolaieff and Sevastopol, i. 135, 260; 

 letter to from Prof. Necker, on certain 

 optical phaenomena seen in Switzer- 

 land and on viewing the figure of a geo- 

 metrical solid, i. 329 ; on the action 

 of heat on glauberite, i. 417 ; observa- 

 tions on the isothermal lines, i.431 ; on 

 a Chinese mirror, i. 438 ; on the mean 

 temperature of Irkoutsk, ii. 3 ; Prof. 

 Airy on his experiments on the polari- 

 zation of light by the diamond, ii. 29 ; 

 letter to from Mr. Forbes on Fourier's 

 demonstrations relative to the mathe- 

 matical law of heat, ii. 103; on a singu- 

 lar fog-bow, ii. 151 ; on the action of 

 light on the retina, ii. 168; on the un- 

 dulatory theory of light, ii. 360; Prof. 

 Airy's answer to, ii. 419; on the dia- 

 mond, iii. 219; on certain changes of 

 colour in the choroid coat of the eye, 

 iii. 289; reply to by G. II. Fielding, 

 iv. 14; on the crystalline lens, iii. 446 ; 

 on Mrs. Griffiths's paper on the vision 

 of the retina, iv. 46 ; on the blood- ves- 

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