696 



INDKX. 



Brown (Dr. R.) on the plurality and 



development of embryos in the 



seeds of Conifera, 596. 

 Brj'ce (J.) on some caverns containing 



bones, near the Giant's Causeway, 



658. 



Canals, on the mean velocity of water 

 running in, 424. 



Capillary attraction, on the theory of, 

 253. 



Carbonic acid in the atmosphere, on 

 the quantity of, 583. 



Caverns containing bones, near the 

 Giant's Causeway, 658. 



in the island of Ratlilin and ad- 

 joining coast of Antrim, 660. 



Challis (Rev. J.) on the theory of ca- 

 pillary attraction, 253. 



on some facts relating to the 



composition of the colours of the 

 spectrum, 544. 



Chemical equivalents, application of a 

 vernier to Wollastou's scale of, 596. 



Chemical products, new, 582. 



Chemistry, 571. 



Christie (Prof.) on a peculiar and well- 

 defined light, in the form of a ray, 

 from the sun, 566. 



Chronometer, with a glass balance- 

 spring, 595. 



Clark (Dr.) on the application of the 

 hot blast to the production of cast 

 iron, 578. 



Clark (Dr. W.) on animal physiology, 

 95. 



Clarke (Dr. J.), abstract of a registry 

 kept in the Lying-in Hospital, Dub- 

 Un, 685. 



Cleland (Dr.), statistics of Glasgow, 

 686. 



Clouds, nature and origin of, 564. 



Coal-fields of Scotland, on the, 640. 



Cocculus Indicus of commerce, 597. 



Coleopterous insects of Sutherland, 

 615. 



Coloursof the spectrum, on some facts 

 relating to the composition of, 544. 



Combustion, phsenomena and products 

 of a low form of, 588. 



Conifers, plurality and development 

 of embryos in the seeds of, 596. 



Contagion, on the laws of, 67. 



Copper vein, on the electricity of a, 

 572. 



Crustacea, state of our knowledge of 

 the, 191. 



, on the transformations of the, 



608. 



Crystals, oblique prismatical, on the 

 positions of the axes of optical elas- 

 ticity in, 556. 



Dalyell (G.) on the propagation of 

 certain Scottish zoophytes, 598. 



Daubeny (Dr.) on excretions from the 

 roots of vegetables, 598. 



Dent (E. J.) on a chronometer with a 

 glass balance-spring, 595. 



Dick (D.)on the construction of achro- 

 matic object-glasses, 593. 



Dick (Mr.) on the use of the omentum, 

 683. 



Diluvial action over North America, 

 14. 



Dipping-needle, method of observing 

 the dip and the force by the same 

 observation, 557. 



Distillation, destructive, examination 

 of the products of, 591. 



Dunn (J.) on a new klinometer and 

 portable surveying instrument, 

 594. 



Dynamics, application to, of a general 

 mathematical method previously ap- 

 plied to optics, 513. 



Elastic bodies, imperfect, on the col- 

 lision of, 534. 



Electricity of the copper vein in Huel 

 Jewel mine, on the, 572. 



Embryos, on their plurality and de- 

 velopment in the seeds of Conifera, 

 596. 



Endemics, their production andcauses, 

 88. 



Entomology, 205, 615. 



Epidemics, their general phjenomena, 

 and dependence on atmospheric 

 changes, 90. 



Expansion of stone by the application 

 of heat, 569. 



Eye, on the achromatism of the, 548. 



Fitzwilliam (Earl) on statistical re- 

 ports regarding agricultui-e, 693. 



Fomitcs, 79. 



Forbes (Prof), address at General 

 Meeting, xi. 



on a new sympiesometcr, 593. 



