INDEX. 



509 



R<'nw5ck (Prof.) on the height of the 



Rocky mountains of North America, 73. 



Review: — Solly on the Human Brain, 286. 



Ritchie (Dr.), reply to IMr. Rainey, 57; 



reply to the Rev. J. W. MacGaukyand 



the Rev. N. J. Callan, 61 ; on Newton's 



rings and the (ixed lines of the spectrum, 



18S; on the velocity of sound in air, 



and that resulting from theory, 220; on 



the electric spark and shock from a per- 



: nianent magnet, 280 ; reply to the Rev. 



J. W. MacGauley, -162. 

 Rocky mountains of N. America, heights 



of, 78. 

 Royal Institution, 317, 485. 

 Koyal Irish Academy, 382, 487. 

 Royal medals awarded to Sir J. Herschel 



and Gecrge Newport, Esq., 213, 214. 

 Royal Society, 62, 141, 210, 376. 

 Rumker (C.) on the solar eclipse of May 

 , 15, 1836, 180. 

 Sabine (J.), notice of, 468. 

 Salts, their solubility in muriate and nitrate 

 of ammonia, 95, 178,333; on the con- 

 stitution of, 216; metallic, peculiar ac- 

 tion of iron upon solutions of, 267, 276. 

 Sap, ascent of the, 494. 

 Schrenbein (Prof.) experiments on a pe- 

 . culiar voltaic condition of iron, 133, 

 267, 425, 428 ; on Faraday's hypothesis 

 on the causes of the neutrality of iron in 

 nitric acid, 172. 

 Schomburgk ( R. H. ) on the tree from which 

 the Indians prepare the poison called 

 wooraly or ourary, 72 ; description of 

 the Pithecia leucocephala of Geoffroy 

 St. Hilaire, 73. 

 Schumacher (Prof.) on the imperial stand- 

 ard troy pound, 63. 

 •• Scientific Memoirs," notice relative to, 81. 

 Scolder (Dr.) on hills of gravel in Ireland 



containing marine shells, 471. 

 Seals of Ireland, on the, 487. 

 Sedgwick (Prof.) on a raised beach in 



Barnstaple bay, 477. 

 Shell, an artificial substance resembling, 



201 ; new fossil shell, 239. 

 Siebold (Dr. Von) on a double-bodied in- 

 testinal worm, 253. 

 Silk, analysis of, 323. 

 Simla Morio, an orang of Borneo, 297. 

 Skey (F.) on the muscular fibre of animal 



and organic life, 377. 

 Smith (J.) on changes in the relative level 

 of sea and land in the West of Scotland, 

 136. 

 Solar eclipse, 180, 230. 

 Solar rays that occasion heat, 219. 

 Sound in air or vapour, velocity of, 220. 

 Sowerby (J. De C.) on a new fossil shell, 



239. 

 Spectrum, on the fixed lines of the, 183. 

 Spina bifida, on, 316, 486. 

 Spinal marrow, on the reflex function of 

 the, 51, 124, 187, 378. 



Starch, 23.5 ; expcnments on, 247. 

 Steel, action of sulphurous acid on, 235. 

 Stokes (C.) on a petrified piece of wood 



from a Roman aqueduct, 476. 

 Strickland ( H. E.), birds observed by him at 

 Smyrna in the winter of 18^5-3*6, 301 ; 

 ge(.logy of the western part of Asia Mi- 

 nor, 68 ; geology of the Thracian Bo8.» 

 phorus, 473. 

 Struve (Prof.) on the measures of double 



stars, 229. 

 Strychnos toxifera, the tree from which the 

 Indians prepare the poison called woo- 

 raly, 72. 

 Sturgeon (W.) on the relative merits of 

 magnetic electrical machines and voltaic 

 batteries, 65. 

 Sugar, crystallized, from the juice of the 



cocoa-nut palm, 77. 

 Sulphate of copper, voltaic battery charged 



with, 244. 

 Sulphuric acid, anhydrous, its action on 

 some metallic chlorides, 157 ; analogy of 

 alcohol and indigo considered in their 

 combination with, 324. 

 Sulphurous acid, its action on steel, 235. 

 Sulphindylic acid, 324. 

 Sun, remarkable phenomenon that occurs 



in eclipses of the, 230. 

 Sussex (H. R. H. the Duke of), address 

 delivered at the anniversary of the Royal 

 Society, 141 ; address on the delivery of 

 the Royal medal to Sir J. F. W. Her- 

 schel, 213. 

 Symmetrizing power of the eye, 234, 370. 

 Syngamus trachealis, 253. 

 Tabuloscriptive engine. 486. 

 Tall)ot (JH. F.), researches in the integral 

 calculus, 210; on the optical phenomena 

 of crystals, 218 ; experiment on the in- 

 terference of light, 364. 

 Taylor (J.) on manganese ore containing 



silver, 279. 

 Taylor ( R.), notice relative to the " Scien- 

 tific Memoirs," 81. 

 Taylor (R. C.) on a vein of bituminous 



coal in the island of Cuba, 163. 

 Tennantite, analysis of, 236. 

 Thebaine, composition of, 387. 

 Thompson (L.) on the solubility of me- 

 tallic oxides and salts in muriate of 

 ammonia, 179; on antimoniuretted hy- 

 drogen, 853. 

 Thomson (Dr. J.) on the interpretation of 

 formula in spherical trigonometrj-, 18; 

 formulae for the rectification of the 

 circle, 210. 

 Thomson ( Dr. R. D.) on tlie preparation 



of boron, 419. 

 Tides, on the, 317, 380, 381. 

 Tin pyrites, analysis of, 236. 

 Trigonometry, spherical, on the interpreta- 

 tion of formulae in, 18. 

 Tungsten, on some compounds of, 322. 

 Undulatory theory, 24. 



