120 



INDEX II. 



Statistics, vital — continued. 



Proportion of male and female deaths in 



six large towns of Scotland, 180. 

 Average number of deaths in five of the 



principal towns of Scotland, 185. 

 Annual deaths in England, London and 



Manchester, during 1838-1841, 186. 

 — in London and ten large town districts, 



during 183S-1840, 1S7. 

 Burials at the public expense in six large 



towns in Scotland, 188. 

 Appendix, 204. 

 Deaths in the cities of Edinburgh in 1840 



and 1841, Dundee 1839-1841, Glasgow, 



Aberdeen, and Perth, during the years 



1837-1841. See Tables L. to LIV. at 



end of Report. 

 Steam engines, construction of a constant in- 

 dicator for, 98. 

 Stones, strength of, and other materials, 211. 

 Strickland (H. E.) on the growth and vitality 

 of seeds, 34. 



■ on zoological nomenclature, 105. 

 Sykes (Lieut.-Colonel W. H.) on the vital 

 statistics of large towns in Scotland, 121. 



Talpa, on the genus, 57. 



Trinity College, Cambridge (Master of) on si- 

 multaneous meteorological observations, 1. 



Unguiculata, 54. 



United States, meteorology of the, 208. 



Ursidae, 62. 



Vegetable substances, preservation of, 40. 

 Vignoles (Charles) on railway sections, 38. 



Waterhouse (G. R.) on zoological nomencla- 

 ture, 105. 



Weber's inductive inclinometer, 9. 



Westwood (J. O.) on zoological nomenclature, 

 105. 



Whewell's anemometer, mean velocity of the 

 wind by, 33. 



Yarrell (W.) on zoological nomenclature, 105. 



Zoological nomenclature, report of a com- 

 mittee on, 105. 



— — , proposition for rendering it uniform 

 and permanent, 106. 



, rules for rectifying the present, 108. 



, recommendations for improving, in fu- 

 ture, 115. 



INDEX II. 



MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 

 SECTIONS. 



ABDOMEN, enormous hydropic distension 



of the, 83. 

 Acid, kakodylic, 35. 

 iEther, dichroism of a solution of stramonium 



in, 14. 

 Air-pipe of the diving apparatus, injury of a 



diver by the bursting of the, 84. 

 Air-tight fabrics, therapeutic application of, 



77. 

 Alder (Joshua) on Eolis, Doris, &c, 69. 

 Alison (Dr.) on the destitution and mortality 



of some of the great towns of Scotland, 97. 

 Aloe, irregular production of flowers in an, 65. 

 America, geography of the north-west coast 



of, 44. 

 — — , on the geology of the western states of 



North, 44. 

 Ammonium, palladio-chlorides of, dichroism 



of the, 13. 

 Analytical mechanics, new general principle 



of, 2. 



Aorta, thoracic, sudden death from the rup- 

 ture of an aneurism of the, 83. 



Appalachian axes, date of the, 42. 



chain, physical structure of the, 40. 



Ashton (Dr.) on vital statistics, with remarks 

 on the influence which the atmosphere ex- 

 erts over the rate of mortality, 97. 



Ashworth (Henry) on the increase of property 

 in South Lancashire since the revolution, 

 ' 94. 



Asia, north, contributions to a geological 

 sketch of, 46. 



Astronomical clock, 1. 



Atmosphere, influence of the, over the rate of 

 mortality, 97. 



Atmospheric railway, abstract of a lecture 

 upon the, 100. 



Atmospherical phenomena, cycle of eighteen 

 years in, 24. 



Auscultation, construction and application of 

 instruments used in, 75. 



