Index. 395 



Himalayan alpine land, observations on, 189. — Himalayan nioun- 



tains not favourable for colonisation, 191. 

 Hooker, Dr, on the vegetation of the carboniferous period, 73. 



Infusoria, their digestive and circulating organs described, by M. 

 Pouchet, 380. 



King, Dr, his obituary of Lieut. G. A. F. Ruxton, 197. 



M*Andrew, Robert, Esq., on marine dredging, 255. 



Manna, observations on, 387. 



Marcet, Professor, of Geneva, his account of the action of chloroform 

 on the sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica), 293. 



Martins, M. Ch., on the vegetable colonisation of the British Islands, 

 Shetland, Feroe, and Iceland, 40. 



Mexicans, ancient, on their migrations, and their analogy to the ex- 

 isting Indian ti ibes of Northern Mexico, by G. A. F. Kuxton, 

 F.E.S., 114. 



Morlot, A. von, on dolomisation, 78. 



Mud-slide in the Island of Malta, described by A. Mil ward, Esq., 

 128. 



Mules, fertile, account of, 377. 



Munro, Captain, on the timber-trees of Bengal, 84. 



Murchison, Sir II. I., F.R.S.A., his observations on the geological 

 structure of the Alps, and more especially on the transition 

 from secondary to tertiary types, and of the existence of vast 

 Eocene deposits in Southern Europe, 280. 



Natal, Port, in Southern Africa, recommended for settlers from 



Europe, by Dr Stanger, 388. 

 Naumann, Professor, on the smoothed rock-surfaces of the porphy- 



ritic hills of Hohburg, 161. 

 Nummulitic formation, its geological position, 377. 



Oakes, William, Esq., the American botanist, his sei-vices to botany, 



270. 

 Organised beings, their succession on the surface of tho earth, by 



Professor Pictet, 102. 



Palajontological notes, by Hermann v. Meyer, 245, 



Patents granted for Scotland from 22d September to 2 2d December 



1848, 193;— from 22d December 1848 to 22d March 1849, 



389. 

 Pictet, Professor, on the succession of organised beings, 102. 

 Pindur, Glacier of, described by Lieut. Strachey, C.E., 258. 

 Plants, the inorganic substances in their different parts, by D. C. 



Rammelsberg, 186. 



