INDEX II. 
Mushet (D.) on the quality of iron for 
railways, 134. 
Nerves and muscles, connexion be- 
tween the, 106. 
Nitric acid and alcohol, on the specific 
heats of, 43. 
Niven (Mr.) on vegetable physiology, 
102. : 
Optical phenomena, in the crystalline 
lens during the absorption of distilled 
water, cause of, 11. 
Optical phzenomenon, observed at 
Mont Blane, 10. 
—-—, singular, seen at sunset, 
15. 
Orobanchacez, structure and affinities 
of, 101. 
Osler (F.) on a new registering ane- 
mometer and rain-gauge, 33. 
Owen (Prof.) on the production of ca- 
taract by a worm, 98. 
Ozocerite, on a variety of, 51. 
Parallax of ¢ Lyre, 3. 
Peace (W.) on the dislocations of the 
coal strata in Wigan, 82. 
Pearsall (T. J.) on the action of water 
upon lead, 58. 
Pennsylvania, bituminous coal field of, 
Phillips (Sir T.), method of destroying 
insects which atiack books, &c., 99. 
Phillips (H.) on the bituminous coal 
field of Pennsylvania, 96. 
Physiology, vegetable, 102. 
Platina, method of fusing, 41. 
Pneumogastric nerve, 109. 
Poisson’s (M.) theory of the constitu- 
tion of the atmosphere on, 31. 
Porter (G. R.) on the trade between 
the United Kingdom and the United 
States, 136. 
Portlock (Capt.) on the new red sand- 
stone of England and Ireland, 88. 
Powell (Prof.) on Von Wrede’s expla- 
nation of the absorption of light, 16 ; 
on the dispersion of light, 18. 
on experiments relative to the 
influence of surfaces on radiation, 
20. 
Pump, Treffos, on the, 129. 
Radiation, on experiments relative to 
influence of surfaces on, 20. 
157 
Railway balance lock, 129. 
trains, on the resistance of, 132. 
Railways, on the quality of iron for, 
134. 
in America, on, 185. 
Rain-gauge, new registering, 33. 
Reade (Rev. J. B.) on the ashes of 
plants, 103. 
on the chemical composition of 
vegetable membrane and fibre, 104. 
Reid (Dr.) on the glosso-pharyngeal, 
pneumogastric, and spinal accessory 
nerve, 109. 
Remington (G.) on a railway balance 
lock, 129. ; 
Respiration, its influence on the circu- 
latory system, 104. 
Rigg’s (R.) inquiry into a peculiar pro- 
perty of the earth, 50. 
Rivers, steam navigation of, 131. 
, improvements in tidal rivers, 
Robinson (Rey. Dr.) on the parallax of 
a Lyre, 3. 
Russell (J. S.) on the mechanism of 
waves, in relation to steam naviga~ 
tion, 130. 
on improvements in tidal rivers, 
131. 
on the construction of sea walls 
and embankments, 183. 
Scotland, on the changes which have 
taken place in the levels of, 85. 
Sedgwick (Prof.) on the incursion of 
the sea into the collieries at Work- 
ington, 75. 
Shells, new, 100. 
Simpson (J. G.) on the contagiousness 
of cholera, 108. 
Slaney (Mr.) on wages in manufactu- 
ring districts, 138. 
Smelting of iron with anthracite coal, 
52. , 
Smith (J.) on the changes which have 
taken place in the levels of Scotland, 
85. 
, notice of undescribed shells, 100. 
Southwood’s (Mr.) account of his ob- 
servations with Mr. Whewell’s ane- 
mometer, 33. 
Soyres (Rev. F. De), educational sta- 
tistics of Sidlesham, 140. 
Spain, on the geology of, 70. 
Spinal accessory nerve, 112. 
Spine, on the curvature of, 114. 
