8 INDEX. 



Heckexvelder , John, his observations and facts relative to the beaver of N. A. 

 VI, 209. 



India, see Building. 



Indian tumulus, account of articles found in one, V, 74. 



Indians, North American, language of signs used among, VI, 1. seq. 



Insects, observations on, V, 1. 



Instruments, made use of in measuring the boundary line between the U. S. 



and the Floridas, V, 204. 

 Jones, Captain William of Philad. his. letter to the President of the Society, 



communicating sundry queries proposed by him to William Jones Esq. 



civil engineer of Calcutta, relative to the principles and practice of 



building in India, with his answer to the same, Vl, 375. 

 Iron, action of the vapours of caustic fixed alkali on, V, 3. found in the 



alluvial soil of Marvland, VI, 319. — in the gneiss of the same state, 



321, 322. 



magnetic, where found in the U. S. VI, 414. 



malleable, experiments on that contained in meteoric stones, 341. 



Iron rust, experiments on, V, 32. 



turnings, action of the vapour of spirit of nitre on, V, 1. 



Islands and shoals, account of some newly discovered in the Indian seas, 



VI, 87. 

 Jupiter, occultation of by the moon, VI, 221. 

 Jupiter 's satellites, eclipses of, observed by J. J. de Ferrer, V, 189.— by A. 



Ellicott, V, 163, 165, 170, 178, 179, 180, 182, 185, 186, 188, 189, 191, 



192, 194, 196, 197, 213, 214, 215. 

 occultation of the first observed by A. Ellicott and Ortiz, VI, 225. 



K 



Kalmia, deleterious qualities of different species of, V, 59, 60, 61. 

 Kinderhook, state of N. T. longitude of, VI, 297. — latitude, ibid. 

 Kingslei/, James L. his and Professor Silliman's memoir, on the meteoric 



stones which fell from the atmosphere, in the state of Connecticut &c. 



VI, 323. 



Lancaster, Penn. astronomical observations made at, VI, 61, 113. — latitude 



of, 297 longitude, 2971 



Language of signs, on that used among the Indians, VI, 1. 

 Latitude, of Albany, VI, 265, 269, 297. 



Bowdoin College district of Maine, VI, 273, 297. 



the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio, V, 169. 



Kinderhook, state of New-York, VI, 269, 297. 



—Lancaster Penn. VI, 297. 



-Natchez Mississippi territoiy, V, 190 — VI, 297- 



Newburg, state of New-York, VI, 269, 297. 



New-Orleans, V, 195.— VI, 269, 297. 



