INDEX II. 
Provisional reports and notices, 423. 
Radiation, influence of surface and 
colour on, 17. 
Rain, 111. 
Reptiles, British fossil, 443. 
Reptilia, 383. 
Robison (Sir. J.), and J. S. Russell, 
on waves, 441, 
Royal Astronomical Society’s cata- 
logue of stars, extension of the, 425. 
Sabine (Major Edward), and R. I. 
Murchison, their address, xxxv. 
Salt, singular property possessed by 
rock, 3. 
Schénbein (Prof.), researches in elec- 
tro-chemistry, 209, 
Scientific memoirs, on the translation 
of foreign, 446. 
Stark (Dr.), and Prof. Bache, influence 
ofsurface and colouron radiation, 17. 
Stars, nomenclature of the, committee 
for revising the, 426. 
Statistics, 446. 
Steel, cast, exposed in simple contact 
with zinc immersed in fresh water, 
251; in sea water, ib. 
217 
Strata, temperature and conducting 
power of different, 434, 
Subbrachiales, 393. 
Temperature, 42. 
, report on subterranean, 309. 
Thompson (Wm.), report on the 
fauna of Ireland: div. Vertebrata, 
353. 
Tide observations, discussion of, appli- - 
cation of a portion of the money 
grant voted in 1839 for, 486. 
Transmission, new phenomena of, 11. 
Vegetable substances, preservation of, 
421. 
Vertebrata, 358. 
Waves, 441. 
Whewell’s (Rev. W.) anemometer, 
report on, 157. 
Whewell (Rev. W.) on the application 
of a money grant voted in 1839, for 
discussion of tide observations, 436. 
Williams (Dr. C. J. B.) on the phy- 
siology of the lungs and air-tubes, 
411. 
Wind, 102, 352. 
INDEX IL. 
TO 
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 
SECTIONS. 
ACID, carbonic, thrown off from the 
lungs, 87. 
, fat, on a new, 76. 
, Spiroilous and saliculous, on 
the identity of, 78. 
, sulphuric, tests for, when thrown 
on the person, 84. 
, uric, pre-existence of urea in, 73. 
Acids, arsenious and sulphuric, new 
compound of, 69. 
Adrian (Prof.) on the libraries of 
Germany, 186. 
Africa, population of certain parts of, 
185. - 
Agassiz (Prof.) on glaciers and boul- 
ders in Switzerland, 113. 
on the development of the fish 
in the egg, 129. 
on animals found in red snow, 
143. 
Air, effects of, when injected into the 
veins, 157. 
Air-pump, an improvement on the, 
212. 
Airy (Prof.) on a new apparent polarity 
of light, 3. 
Alcohol, observations on the voltaic 
decomposition of, 81. 
