158 



compass bar, 28 ; terrestrial mag- 

 netic intensity, 3t); isoclinal mag- 

 netic lines in Yorkshire, 31 ; iso- 

 clinal lines in England, 31 ; aurora 

 borealis, 32 ; new method of inves- 

 tigating the specific heats of gases, 

 33 ; improved ear-trumpet, 36 ; on 

 the higher orders of Grecian music, 

 37 ; muemonical logarithms, 38 ; on 

 the weight, height, and strength of 

 men, 38; Whewell'sanemometer, 39. 



Mechanical science : — on British na- 

 val architecture, 129; on the tides, 

 130 ; on the performance of steam- 

 engines in Cornwall, 130 ; paddle- 

 wheels, 131. 



Medical science : — on diseases of the 

 brain, 107; on tetanus, 109; on 

 cataract, 111; on cancerous and tu- 

 berculous diseases, 1 1 2 ; on the struc- 

 ture of the teeth, 115; on the che- 

 mistry of the digestive organs, 117; 

 on the functions of the nervous sys- 

 tem, 119; on absorption, 119; on 

 the gyration of the heart, 120; on 

 the muscles and nerves of the eye- 

 ball, 121 ; newly discovered pecu- 

 liarity in the structure of the uterine 

 decidua, 121 ; account of human 

 twin foetuses, one of which without 

 brain, heart, lungs, and liver, 122 ; 

 on the bones in chronic rheumatism, 

 123 ; on the new circulating chan- 

 nels in double popliteal aneurism, 

 123 ; new instrument for removing 

 ligatures, 124; sensibility of the 

 glosso-pharyngeal nerve, 125. 



Memphis, site of the ancient city of, 96. 



Mineral productions of Great Britain, 

 value of, 144. 



Montgomeiy (Dr.) on a newly dis- 

 covered peculiarity in the uterine 

 decidua, 121. 



Moon, Damoiseau's and Plana's works 

 on the theory of the, 12. 



Moon's place, on new empirical tables 

 for finding, 12. 



Musbet (Mr.) on the de-oxydation of 

 iron ore, 64; on a metallic cement 

 from iron ore, 65. 



Music, Grecian, 37. 



Murchison (R. I.) on the hydrogra- 

 phy of the Severn, 88, 



, classification of the old slate rocks 



of Devonshire, 95. 



Napier's rods, an improvement of, 132. 

 Naval architecture, British, 129. 



Nerve, glosso-pharjnigeal, on the sen- 

 sibility of the, 125. 



Nervous system, functions of the, 119. 



New Holland ostrich, on the organ of 

 voice in the, 97. 



Nitrogen in lignin, 74. 



Norantia, new species of, 104. 



Norfolk, vertebrated animals found in 

 the tertiary beds of, 48. 



Nugent (Lord) on the sea rivulets in 

 Cephalonia, 81. 



Nuttall (J.) on the management of 

 the pine tribe, 104. 



O'Beirne (Dr.) on tetanus, 109, 

 Ostrich, New Holland, on the organ of 



voice in the, 97. 

 , two-toed, on the foot of the, 98. 



Paddle-wheels, on, 131. 



Paracyanogen, a new isomeric com- 

 pound, 67. 



Pendulums, compensating, mathema- 

 tical rules for constructing, 7. 



Phelps (Mr.) on the formation of peat. 

 107. 



Phillips (Prof.) on the direction of iso- 

 clinal magnetic lines in Yorkshire, 

 31. 



on certain limestones and asso- 

 ciated strata near Manchester, 86. 



on the removal of boulders from 



the Cumbrian mountains, 87. 



Plana's work on the theory of the moon, 

 12. 



Poisons, arsenical, 67. 



Polarization, on, 19. 



Polarized light, action of crystallized 

 surfaces on, 13. 



Polarizing stnicture in the crystalline 

 lens after death, 16. 



Population, influence of the price of 

 grain on, 132, 133. 



Potassium and carbon, on a compound 

 of, 63. 



Prichard (Dr.) on diseases of the brain, 

 107. 



Principal relations, on the calculus of, 

 4,41. 



Pyrenees, on the physical geography 

 of the, S3. 



Quartz, on the laws of double refrac- 

 tion in, 18. 



Refraction, double, in quartz, 18. 

 Railroads, their effect on intercommu- 

 nication, 150, 



