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INDEX II. 



Liver, peculiarities in the circulation of the, 79. 



Loan funds in Ireland, on, 98. 



Locomotives, straight axles for, 104. 



Logwood, colouring principle of, 33. 



Lucas (W.) on the production of an artificial 

 copper pyrites, 40. 



Lymm, fossil footsteps in the new red sand- 

 stone quarry at, 56. 



MacCullagh (Prof.) on the mathematical ex- 

 pressions which lead to an explanation of 

 all the ordinary phenomena in optics, 12. 



Machaerium subducens, specimen of, from 

 Port Essington, 69. 



Magnesian family, new oxides of certain of 

 the metals of the, 35. 



■ . limestone formations, causes of irregu- 

 larities of surface in certain parts of the, 39. 



Magnetics, on certain undescribed phaenomena 

 in permanent, 19. 



Magnetism, theory of, 17. 



Magnets, improved, and modes of examining 

 their powers, 19. 



Manchester, vital statistics of, 87. 



, registers of the collegiate church of, 92. 



— — , criminal statistics of, 92. 



, vital statistics of the spinners and piecers 



employed in the fine cotton-mills of, 93. 



, industrial and training school to be 



erected near, 96. 



Marianini(Steffano) on the magnetising action 

 of transitory electric currents, 27. 



Mathematics, 1. 



, addendum to, 115. 



Mechanics, 100. 



, on a new general principle of analyti- 

 cal, 2. 



Medical science, 75. 



Mercer (Mr.) on some peculiar instances of 

 (so called) catalytic action, 32. 



Meteorological instrument, on a new, 9. 



observations taken at Beddgelert in the 



county of Carnarvon, 25. 



Meteorology of the northern Atlantic, 26. 



1 of the province of Coorg, in the western 



Ghats of India, 22. 



Microscopic structure of coal, 47. 



Mineralogical museum of the Imperial Mining 

 Department of Vienna, on the, 39. 



Monstrosity, case of, 87. 



Monts de piete in Ireland, 98. 



Mortality, influence of the atmosphere over 

 the rate of, 97. 



Miiser (M.) on a very curious fact connected 

 with Photography, discovered by, 14. 



Murchison (R. I.), notice of a memoir on 

 the geology of the western states of North 

 America, by David Dale Owen, 44. 



, on the geological structure of Russia, 



45. 



, on the distinction between the striated 



surface of rocks and parallel undulations 

 dependent on original structure, 53. 



Nasmyth (Mr.), correction of an error in a 

 letter from Mr. Phillips to, 1. 



Nasmyth (James) on the application of the 

 law of definite proportions to the stratifi- 

 cation of clouds, 26. 



, on the strength of hammered and an- 

 nealed bars of iron and railway axles, 105. 



Naphtha, coal, new product obtained from, 39. 



Nasse (Prof.) on the composition of the blood 

 and bones of domestic animals, 40. 



Negro-women, period of puberty in, 82. 



Neutral point, existence of a new, and of two 

 secondary, 13. 



New red sandstone, occurrence of vegetable 

 remains, supposed to be marine, in the, 47. 



quarry at Lymm, fossil footsteps in the, 



56. 



Nichol (Prof.) on the state of the observatory 

 at Glasgow, 12. 



Noble (Mr.) on the influence of the factory 

 system in the development of pulmonary 

 consumption, 96. 



Northern Atlantic, meteorology of the, 26. 



Observatory at Glasgow, state of the, 12. 



Oceanic waves, 21 ; table of observations on, 

 ib. 



Optical instrument, new, 27. 



Osier (Follet) on the application of the prin- 

 ciple of the vernier to the subdividing of 

 time, 9. 



Oxford, comparative statistics of the university 

 of, in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries, 99. 



Oxides, new, of certain of the metals of the 

 magnesian family, 35. 



Owen (David Dale), notice of his memoir on 

 the geology of the western states of North 

 America, by R. I. Murchison, 44. 



Owen (Prof.) on Dr. Martin Barry's researches 

 on fibre, 83. 



Palpi of spiders, 66. 



Paralysis, on a case of unusual, 85. 



Parkinson (Rev. R.) on the registers of the • 

 collegiate church of Manchester, 92. 



Patella pellucida, nidus and growth of the, 66. 



— — laevis, 66. 



Peach (C. W.) on the nidus and growth of 

 the Purpura lapillus, and on the Patella 

 pellucida, and P. lsevis, 66. 



Peacock (Anthony) on decimal fractions, 10. 



Pendulum, compensating, rate of a patent, 10. 



Percussion, 77. 



Pessaries, evils arising from the use of com- 

 mon, 86. 



Phillips (J.), correction of an error in a letter 

 to Mr. Nasmyth from, 1. 



, on the microscopic structure of coal, 47. 



Photography, on a very curious fact connected 

 with, 14. 



Physics, 1. 



, addendum to, 115. 



Plants, different species of cotton, 61. 



Playfair (Dr. Lyon) on some new oxides of 

 certain of the metals of the magnesian fa- 

 mily, 35. 



— — , on the composition and characters of 

 caryophyllin, 36. 



