Index. 395 



Geographical relations of countries and nations, as dependent on the 

 extent and situation of forests, 236. 



Geographical Distribution of Articulated Animals, 384. 



Glaciers, observations on, by Professor Agassiz, 144 — on glaciers, 

 by Professor J. Forbes, 217. 



Geology of South America, by Alcide d'Orbigny, 42. 



Goodsir, Harry, D. S., on the development of the seminal fluid, and 

 organs of generation in the Crustacea, 183. 



Guano, the South American and African kinds, observations on, by 

 John Davy, M.D., F.R.S.L., 290. 



Hodgkin, on the progress of Ethnology, 118. 



Hope, Dr, his chemical observations on the flowers of various plans, 

 and on the proximate principles they contain, 193. 



Human bones, in the fossil state, in the praehistorical world in South 

 America, 38. x 



India, route to, by Charles Maclaren, Esq., F.R.S.E., 136. 



temperature of the earth in, by John Caldecott, Esq., 198. 



Iron, cast, its silvering by galvanism, 206. 



Keilhau on crystalline limestone, &c., 341. 



King, Richard D., on the physical characters of the Esquimaux,, 296. 



King, William, Esq., contributions towards the general character of 

 the fossil plants of the genus Sigillaria, 4, 272. 



Leonhardite, a new mineral species, described, 208. 



Lightning melts a watch of a man in his pocket, without his being 

 injured, 199. 



Meikle on the theory of parallel lines, 310. 



Meteorological Tables for 1843, 186, 377. 



Milne, David, Esq., notices of earthquake-shocks felt in Great Bri- 

 tain, especially Scotland, 72, 362. 



Nile, river, its early rise in 1843, 201. 



D'Orbigny on the geology of South America, 42. 



Palladium, extraction of, in Brazil, 207. 



Patents granted in Scotland from 20th September to 20th December 

 1843, 214— from the l8th December 1843 to the 22d March 1844, 

 391. 



Pilla, Leopold, on.the production of flames in volcanoes, and the con- 

 sequences that may be drawn therefrom, 231. 



Planet Venus, observations on, at the time of its superior conjunc- 

 tion, by Thomas Dick, 164. 



Plica Polonica, the animal said to cause it, noticed, 204. 



Publications, new, received, 211, 389. 



Radiation, solar, observations on, 113. 



