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INDEX I. 
Napier (J. R.), report on the measure- 
ment of ships for tonnage, 62. 
Oldham (James), second report on steam 
nayigation at Hull, 57. 
Owen (Capt. J.O.), report on the mea 
surement of ships for tonnage, 62. 
Paris, colours of shooting stars and globes 
observed at, from 1841-43, 147. 
Perry (James), report on the measure- 
ment of ships for tonnage, 62: 
Plarr (Dr. Gustaf) on some transforma- 
tions of a series of factorial exponen- 
tials, 101. 
Poey (M. A.) on the colours of luminous 
: meteors, 144. 
Point Barrow, thermometrical observa- 
tions made at, in 1852-54, 159. 
Powell (Rev. Prof.), tenth report on ob- 
servations of luminous meteors, 1856- 
57, 131. 
Railway trains, on the adaptation of sus- 
pension bridges to sustain the passage 
_ of, 154. 
Russell (John Scott), report on the mea- 
surement of ships for tonnage, 62. 
Sabine (Maj.-Gen.), report of the com- 
mittee on the magnetic survey of Great 
_ Britain, 130. 
Seeds, on the growth and vitality of, 43. 
Sevenoaks, remarkable meteor seen at, 
_ in January 1856, 142. 
Shells, list of, from the Turbot Bank, 230; 
' dredged off the Maidens Light-houses, 
Ships, on the measurement of, for ton- 
‘nage, 62. 
Shooting star, on an ascending, 152. _ 
_ Shooting stars and globes observed in 
_ China, colours of, 145; in England, 
46.3; at Paris, 147. 
Simpson (John) on thermometrical ob- 
servations made at the ‘ Plover’s’ 
wintering-place, Point Barrow, in 
1852-54, 159. 
203 
Smith (Dr. J. Lawrance), a memoir on 
meteorites ; and description of five new 
meteoric irons, &c., 149. 
Smyth (Prof. C. P.), notice of an ascend- 
ing shooting star, 152. 
Southampton, a remarkable meteor seen 
at, in January 1856, 140. 
Spongiadz, on the vitality of the, 121. 
Steam navigation at Hull, second report 
on, 57. 
ce transport economy; on mercantile, 
Strangford Lough, on the marine zoology 
of, 
Telescope and equatorial mountings, on 
the improvement of, 195. 
Temperature, evidences of lunar in- 
fluence on, 248. 
Thermometrical observations at Point 
Barrow, in 1852-54, 159, 
Thomson (Prof. Wyville) on zoophytes 
received from the North of Ireland). 
235. 
Takes on the resistance of, to collapse; 
Turbot Bank, list of shells from the; 230. 
Vegetable products imported into Liver« 
pool from 1851-55, 254, 
Vignoles (C.) on the adaptation of sus- 
pension bridges to sustain the passage 
of railway trains, 154. 
Woodcroft (Prof. Bennett), report on the 
measurement of ships for tonnage, 62, 
Woolley (Rev. Dr.), report on the mea- 
surement of ships for tonnage, 62, 
Yates (James), report on the measure- 
ment of ships for tonnage, 62. 
Zoology, marine, of Strangford Lough, 
104. 
Zoophytes received from the North of 
Treland, 235. 
