INDEX. 



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Ethnographical studies, their importanco 



and teaching, 357. 358. 

 Euripides, his Phaeton, 123. 



Falconer, Dr., fossil researches in the 

 Himalayas, 278. 



Faraday, radiating heat, electro-magnet- 

 ism, &c., 49, 179, 188 ; bi-illiant discov- 

 ery of the evolution of light by mag- 

 netic forces, 193. 



Farquharson on the connection of cirrous 

 clouds witli the Aurora, 197 ; its alti- 

 tude, 199. 



Fedorow, his pendulum experiments, 168. 



Feldt on the ascent of shooting stars, 1-23. 



Ferdinandea, igneous island of, 248. 



Floras, geographical distribution of, 350. 



Forbes, Professor E., itjference to his 

 Travels in Lycia, 223 ; account of the 

 island of Santorino, 241, 242. 



Forbes, Professor J., his improved seis- 

 mometer, 205 ; on the correspondence 

 existing between the distribution of ex- 

 isting floras in the British Islands, 348, 

 349 ; on tlie origin and diffusion of the 

 British flora, 353, 354, 



Forster, George, remarked the climatic 

 difference of temperature of the east- 

 ern and vp^estern coasts of both conti- 

 nents, 321. 



Forster, Dr. Thomas, monkish notice of 

 " Meteorodes," 123. 



Fossil remains of tropical plants and an- 

 imals found in northern regions, 46, 

 270-284 ; of extinct vegetation in the 

 travertine of Van Diemen's Land, 224 ; 

 fossil human remains, 250. 



Foster, Reinhold, pyramidal configura- 

 tion of the southern extremities of con- 

 tinents, 290, 291. 



Fourier, temperature of our planetary 

 system, 155, 172, 176. 



Fracastoro on the direction of the tails of 

 comets from the sun, 101. 



Fraehn, fall of stars, 119. 



Franklin, Benjamin, existence of sand- 

 banks indicated by the coldness of the 

 water over them, 308. 



Franlilin, Capt., on the Aurora, 197, 199, 

 200, 201 ; rarity of electric explosions 

 in high northern regions, 337. 



Freycinet, pendulum oscillations, 166. 



Fusinieri on meteoric masses, 123. 



Galileo, 104. 167. 



Galle, Dr., 91. 



Galvani, Aloysio, accidental discovery of 

 galvanism, 52. 



Gaseous emanations, fluids, mud, and 

 molten earth, 217-220. 



Gasparin. distribution of the quantity of 

 rain in Central Europe, 333. 



Gauss, Friedrich, on terrestrial magnet- 

 ism, 179 ; his erection, in 1832, of a mag- 

 netic observatory on a new principle, 

 191 192. 



Gay-Lussac, 204, 233, 234, 266, 267, 311, 

 312, 334, 336. 



Geognostic or geological description of 

 the earth's surface, 202-286. 



Geognosy (the study of the textures and 

 position of the earth's surface), its prog- 

 ress, 203. 



Geography, physical, 288-311; of animaJ 

 life, 341-346; of plants, 346-351. 



Geographies, Ritter's (Carl), "Geography 

 in relation to Nature and the History 

 of Man," 48, 67; Varenius (Bernhard), 

 General and Comparative Geography, 

 66, 67. 



Gerard, Capts. A. G. and J. G., on the 

 snow-line and vegetation of the Hima- 

 layas, 31, 32, 331, 332. 



German scientific works, their defects, 

 47. 



Geyser, intermittent fountains of, 222. 



Gieseke on the Aurora, 200. 



Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, Gulf Stream, 307. 



Gilbert, William, of Colchester, terres- 

 trial magnetism, 158, 159, 177, 179, 182. 



Gillies, Dr., on the snow-line of South 

 America, 330, 331. 



Gioja, crater of, 98. 



Girard, composition and texture of ba- 

 salt, 253. 



Glaisher, James, on the Aurora Borealia 

 of Oct. 24, 1847. See Translator's notes, 

 194, 200. 



Goldfuss, Professor, examination of fossil 

 specimens of the flying saurians, 274. 



Goppert on the conversion of a fragment 

 of amber-tree into black coal, 281 ; cy- 

 cadese, 283 ; on the amber-tree of the 

 Baltic, 283, 284. 



Gothe, 41. 47, 53. 



Greek philosophers, their use of the term 

 Cosmos, 69, 70; hypotheses on aero- 

 lites, 122, 123, 134. 



Grimm, Jacob, graceful symbolism at- 

 tached to falling stars in the Lithuanian 

 mythology, 112, 113. 



Gulf Stream, its origin and course, 307. 



Gumprecht, pyroxenic nepheline, 253. 



Guanaxuato, striking subterranean noise 

 at, 209. 



Hall, Sir James, his experiments on min- 

 eral fusion, 262. 



Halley, comet, 43, 100, 102-109; on the 

 meteor of 1686, 118, 133 ; on the light 

 of stars, 152 ; hypothesis of the earth 

 being a hollow sphere, 171 ; his bold 

 conjecture that the Aurora Borealis was 

 a magnetic phenomenon, 193. 



Hansteen on magnetic lines of declination 

 in Northern Asia, 182. 



Hausen on the material contents of the 

 moon, 96. 



Hedenstrom on the so-called "Wood 

 Hills" of New Siberia, 281. 



Hegel, quotation from his "Philosophy 

 of History," 76. 



Heine, discovery of crystals of feldspar 

 in scoriae, 268. 



Hemmer, falling stats, 119. 



Hencke, planets discovered by. See nota 

 by Translator, 90, 91. 



Henfrey, A., extract from his Outlines of 

 Structural and Physiol(\gica) Botany 

 See notes by Translator, 341, S42, 35i 



