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INDEX. 



Callan, Rev. N., on the construction 

 and power of a new form of gal- 

 vanic battery, 49. 



Cambridge Philosophical Society, 

 proceedings of the, 309, 393. 



Capillary attraction, on certain phae- 

 nomena of, 36. 



Caprol, on the preparation and pro- 

 perties of, 166. 



Carbonates of the metallic oxides, on 

 the, 401. 



Cayley (A.) on the application of qua- 

 ternions to the theory of rotation, 196 



Cephalopoda, on some remains of, 

 from the Oxford clay, 60. 



Cerine, on the properties and compo- 

 sition of, 62. 



Cerotene, on the composition of, 388. 



Cerotic acid, on the preparation and 

 properties of, 217, 385. 



Cerotine, on the preparation and con- 

 stitution of, 380. 



Chalkolite, on the composition of, 397. 



Challis (Prof.) on a method of calcu- 

 lating the orbit of a planet or comet 

 from three observed places, 71 ; on 

 the velocity of sound, 98; on the vi- 

 brations of an elastic fluid, 360,462; 

 on a method of correcting equato- 

 real observations for refraction, 479. 



Chamomile, on the oil of, 165. 



Chapman (J. E.) on the detection of 

 lead in the presence of bismuth in 

 blowpipe experiments, 319. 



Cherry-laurel, on the distilled water 

 of, 399. 



Chevallier (Prof.) on an easy method 

 of approximating to the distance of 

 a planet, 241 ; on a regulated time- 

 ball, 242. 



Chloranile, 231. 



Chloroform, on certain phaenomena of 

 capillary attraction exhibited by, 36. 



Chloropicrine, researches on, 53. 



Chromium, on the solubility of the 

 hydrate of, in potash and soda, 325. 



Chrysotil, analysis of, 7G. 



Claudet ( A . ) on the photographometer, 

 330. 



Cockle (J.) on certain functions re- 

 sembling quaternions, and on a new 

 imaginary in algebra, 435. 



Columbite, analysis of, 553. 



Comets, on a method of calculating 

 the orbits of, 71 ; on the physical 

 condition of, 296. 



Compasses, on the working of, on 

 board iron steamers, 63. 



Copper, on the solubility of the hy- 

 drate of, in potash and soda, 325. 



Creatine, on the preparation of, 164. 



Damour (M.), analysis of columbite 

 from the environs of Limoges, 553; 

 on alluaudite, 554. 



Davies (T. S.) on geometry and geo- 

 meters, 201, 513. 



Dawes (Rev. W. R.) on the interior 

 satellites of Uranus, 237. 



Delesse (M.) on the chrysotil from 

 the Vosges, 7G. 



De Morgan (Prof. A.) on some me- 

 thods of integrating partial differ- 

 ential equations, 393. 



Diamagnetism, observations on, 48. 



Dickson (T.) on the amount of inor- 

 ganic constituents contained in ale 

 and porter, 341. 



Dodo, Solitaire, and other extinct 

 birds of the islands Mauritius, Ro- 

 drigxiez and Bourbon, on the history, 

 affinities and osteology of the, 467. 



Doyere (M.) on the constitution of 

 the atmosphere, 165. 



Drach (S. M.) on the magic square 

 of the knight's march, 247. 



Du Bois-Reymond (M. E.) on the 

 theory of Nobili's coloured rings, 7. 



Dupasquier (M. A.) on chloride of 

 gold as a test of organic matter in 

 common water, 77 • 



Elastic bodies, action of induction 

 upon the acoustic properties of, 275. 



Electricity, on the relations of, with 

 bodies in the spheroidal state, 439. 



, dynamic, on the non-pro- 

 pagation of, by radiation, 89. 



Ellis (R. L.) on the theory of matter, 

 393. 



Epidote, analyses of different varieties 

 of, 483. 



Equation, on the solution of a, 21 1*. 



Equations, methods of integrating par- 

 tial differential, 393. 



Erythrine, observations on, 250. 



Eudiometry, improvements in, 165. 



Evernia Prunastri, on the substances 

 discovered in, 249. 



Fauna of the iEgean Sea, on the in- 

 fluence of temperature vipon the 

 distribution of the, 169. 



Filhol (M.) on the arsenites of iron, 

 481. 



