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INDEX II. 



Statistics, vital, of the spinners and piecers 

 employed in the fine cotton mills of Man- 

 chester, 93. 



, criminal, of Lancashire, 95. 



, vital, with remarks on the influence 



which the atmosphere exerts over the rate 

 of mortality, 97. 



— , commercial, of France in 1840. 98. 



, of Plymouth, 98. 



•— , comparative, of the universities of Ox- 

 ford and Cambridge, in the 10th, 17th and 

 19th centuries, 99. 



, contributions to academical, continued 



from 1839, 100. 



Steam-engine, on a new, worked with three 

 kinds of pressure, 111. 



Steam vessels, on an indicator of speed of, 109. 



Storms, sand, production of, 42. 



Stramonium, dichroism of a solution of, in 

 sether, 14. 



Strata, theory of flexure and elevation of, 41. 



, occurrence and mode of formation of 



horizontal, 58. 



, longitudinal and vertical, 58. 



, of transverse, more or less inclined, 59. 



, combination of horizontal with longitu- 

 dinal and vertical, 59. 



Strickland (H. E.) on Halcyon Smyrnensis, 

 70. 



Sun's light, luminous lines in certain flames 

 corresponding to the defective lines in the, 

 15. 



Sykes (Colonel) on the meteorology of the 

 province of Coorg, in the western Ghats of 

 India, 22. 



Taylor (Mr.) on a new kind of drawing pa- 

 per, 114. 



Talbot (H. Fox) on the improvement of the 

 telescope, 16. 



Telescope, improvement of the, 16. 



Thames Tunnel, on the, in its completed con- 

 dition, 111. 



Thomson (J.) on Wigston's self-acting rail- 

 way signals, 114. 



Tides, abnormal, of the Firth of Forth, 115. 



Time, application of the principle of the ver- 

 nier to the subdividing of, 9. 



Vegetable remains, occurrence of, in the new 

 red sandstone, supposed to be marine, 47. 



Vegetable growth, promotion of, 64. 



Vernier, application of the principle of the, to 

 the subdividing of time, 9. 



Ventilation, plans for, recently adopted in 

 Glasgow, 109. 



Vienna, on the mineralogical and geological 

 museum of the Imperial Mining Depart- 

 ment of, 39. 



Vignoles (Prof. Charles), abstract of a lecture 

 upon the atmospheric railway, delivered at 

 Manchester by, 100. 



on straight axles for locomotives, 104. 



on the best form of rails and the upper 



works of railways generally, 106. 



on the use of beton and concrete in 



constructing breakwaters, 112. 



Vital periodicity, on a general law of, 81. 

 Volcanic products of the West of England, 



stratified and unstratified, 54. 

 Voltaic circle, electrolysing power of a simple, 



30. 

 Vorticella, species of, on the stems of the 



Chara flexilis, 68. 



Walker (William) on oceanic waves, 21. 



Waves, 19. 



, oceanic, 21. 



Weights and measures, on the restoration of 

 lost standards of, S. 



Weir, on a self-acting waste, 110. 



Wheatstone (Prof.), letter from, to Colonel 

 Sabine, on a new meteorological instru- 

 ment, 9. 



Williams (C. Wye) on the advantages and 

 disadvantages of hot air in effecting the 

 combustion of coal, 40. 



on testing the efficacy of the several 



plans for abating the nuisances from smoke 

 by effecting a more perfect combustion, 

 108. 



Williams (Dr. C. J. B.) on the construction 

 and application of instruments used in aus- 

 cultation, 75. 



Williams (Rev. D.), on the discovery of the 

 remains of fishes at the base of the moun- 

 tain limestone in the vicinity of Bristol, 60. 



on the stratified and unstratified volca- 

 nic products of the West of England, 51. 



Williams (Prof.) on the therapeutic applica- 

 tion of air-tight fabrics, 77. 



Williamson (W. C.) on the origin of coal, 48. 



Wilson (Mr.) on lithotomy and lithotripsy, 87. 



Woollcombe (H.) on the statistics of Ply- 

 mouth, 98. 



Zoology, 01. 



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