INDEX. 



471 



Horner ^L.) on the solid matter siis- 



pendea in the water of the Rhine,396. 



Horner (W. G.) on the signs of the 



trigonometrical lines, 86. 

 Hydrocyanic acid, preparation of, 97. 

 Hygrometer, wet-bulb, formula for in- 

 ferring the dew-point from the, 182. 

 Infinite series, slowly converging and 

 diverging, on the summation of, 348. 

 Insects, circulation of the blood in, 300 ; 



new Dipterous insects, 280, 447. 

 Iron and copper, alloys of, 81. 

 Iron, peroxide of, an antidote to arse- 



niousacid, 237. 

 Ivory (J.), astronomical refractions, 142. 

 J. B. on the attraction of an homoge- 

 neous ellipsoid, 203. 

 J. H. N. on the juice of Eschscholzia 



Califomica, 77. 

 Johnson (G. H. S.), method of disco- 

 vering the equations of caustics, 872. 

 Johnson (Dr. H.) on a newly observed 



property in plants, 165. 

 Johnston (J. F. W. ) on the dimorphism 



of baryto-calcite, 1. 

 Keith ( Rev. P.), structure of ani mals, 4, 

 90; classification of vegetables, 379. 

 LepisosteuSf their internal organization, 



384. 

 Leptoconchus^ description of, 224. 

 Lialisy the type of a new genus nearly 



related to Bipes, 391. 

 Light, undulatory theory of, 16, 107, 

 189, 262 ; on the dispersion of, 374. 

 Light and heat, on the production of 



by animals, 246. 

 lAmnoria terebrans, 55. 

 Linnaean Society, 72, 220, 379. 

 Lubbock (J. W.) on some elementary 

 applications of Abel's theorem, 116; 

 determination of the terms in the dis- 

 turbing function of the fourth order, 

 142. 

 Lyell (C.) on the proofs of a gradual 



rising of the land in Sweden, 297. 

 Magilus antiquus, 224. 

 Magnetism, terrestrial, geometrical re- 

 searches concerning, 302. 

 Magneto-electricity, new phaenomenon 

 in, 169; magneto-electrical decom- 

 position of water,428 ; Magneto-elec- 

 trical machine, optical effects of, 427. 

 Meeson (H. A.) on the detection of 



opium, 158. 

 Metallic oxides, separation of, 234. 

 Metals : — heated, vibration of, 85 ; elec- 

 trical relations of, 300 ; action of in de- 

 termining gaseous combination, 354. 

 Meteorite, in Moravia, 159; in India, 



398. 

 Meteorological Table for Nov., 80; for 

 Dec, 160; for Jan., 240; for Feb., 

 320 ; for Mar., 400 ; for Apr., 468. 

 Meteorology, of Dukhun, 59 ;Vemarks 



on the year 1 834 at Carlisle,* 427. 

 Miller (W. H.) on the forms of sul- 

 phurct of nickel, &c., 104. 



Mineralogy : — Allan's Manual of, 53; 

 mineralogical notices, 76; analysis of 

 nadelerz, 77 ; new mineral, 133 ; ana- 

 lyses of osmiridium and allanite, 238. 

 Mitchell's (Prof.) method of preparing 



caibonic oxide. Dr. Gale on, 232. 

 Mitchell (Dr. J.) on the chalk and 



flint of Yorkshire, 313. 

 Monetary calculation, a decimal system 



of, 441. 

 Morphia and quina, new test for, 158. 

 Motion, transmitted, analytical deter- 

 mination of the laws of, 267. 

 Mount Etna, eruption in 1536, 299. 

 Murchison (R. I.) on an outlying ba- 

 sin of lias on the borders of Salop 

 and Cheshire, with an account of the 

 lower lias between Gloucester and 

 Worcester, 314 ; general view of the 

 new red sandstone series in the 

 counties of Salop, Stafford, Worces- 

 ter, and Gloucester, 315; on certain 

 coal tracts in Salop, Worcestershire, 

 and N. Gloucestershire, 376. 

 Muriate of ammonia, its action on cer- 

 tain sulphates, 235. 

 Muriatic acid, on the immersion of cop. 



per in, 444. 

 Mushet (D.) on the practicability of 

 alloying iron and copper, 81 ; on the 

 fusion and appearance of refined and 

 unrefined copper, 324; on the im- 

 mersion of copper in muriatic acid, 

 as a test of its durability, 444. 

 Nadelerz, analysis of, 77. 

 Newport (G.) on the nervous system 



of the Sphinx ligustri, 55. 

 Nickel, form of sulphuret of, 104. 

 Nixon (J.) on the trigonometrical 



height of Ingleborough, 248, 429. 

 Nycteribia, the genus, 392. 

 Olbers (Dr.) on the approaching return 



of Halley's comet, 45. 

 Opium, detection of, 158. 

 Omithorhynchus paradoxus, the ova of, 

 60; natural history and habits of, 307. 

 Osteology, human, 57 ; of the orang and 



chimpanzee, 457. 

 Osmiridium, analysis of, 238. 

 Otter, Irish, 229. 



Owen (Rich.) on the ova of the Omi- 

 thorhynchus paradoxus, 60 ; descrip- 

 tion of a recent Clavagella, 230 ; on a 

 new species of Entozoon, 452; ana- 

 tomy of Linguatula Tcenioides, 450 ; 

 osteology of the orang and chimpan- 

 zee, 457. 

 Oxides : — carbonic, on Prof. Mitchell's 

 method of preparing, 232 ; metallic, 

 separation of, 234; of cadmium and 

 of bismuth, separation of, 235. 

 Peroxide of iron, as an antidote to ar-' 



seniousacid, 237. 

 Persian Gulf, advance of land in, 401. 

 Phillips (R.) on the quantity of water 

 contained in crystallized barytea and 

 strontia, 52. 



