INDEX II. 
Brewster (Sir D.) on the cause of the 
increase of colour by the inversion 
of the head, 7. 
on the phenomena and cause of 
muscz volitantes, 8. 
on a method of illuminating mi- 
croscopic objects, 9. 
» account of the camera obscura, 
and other apparatus used in making 
daguerreotype drawings, 9. 
on the line of visible direction 
along the axis of vision, 9. 
on an improvement in the po- 
larizing microscope, 10. 
, letter from Col. Reid to, on the 
appearance of the sun at Bermuda, 
10. 
Buchanan (Dr.) on a method of se- 
parating, by filtration, the coagu- 
lable lymph from liquid human 
blood, 75. 
on fibrine of human blood, 156. 
Bunsen (Prof.) on a new mode of 
estimating nitrogen in organic ana- 
lysis, 77. 
on the compound or radical 
called Kakodyl, 77. 
Burn (Dr. A.) on the growth of cotton 
in India, 146. 
Calculating machine, Mr. Fowler's 
new, 595. 
Caldecott (Mr.) on meteorological ob- 
servations made at Trevandrum, 28. 
Camera obscura, account of the, used 
in making daguerreotype drawings, 
Canada, geology and mineralogy of, 
114. 
Canals, propelling boats on, 209. 
Castle Hill, Androssan, geology of, 
95. 
Chalmers (Dr.) on the application of 
statistics to moral and ceconomic 
science, 185. 
on the pauperism of Glasgow, 
Chalmers (Rev. P.) on the parish of 
Dunfermline, 186. 
Chemistry, 58. 
Chest, cold washing of the, treatment 
of pertussis by, 158. 
Ciliograda, British, 141. 
Cinchona, use of the Matias bark as a 
substitute for, 160. 
219 
Clark (Dr.) on a mode of detecting 
minute portions of arsenic, 83. 
Clegg’s (Mr.) new safety lamp, 210. 
Cleland (Dr.) on the population, trade 
and commerce of the city of Glas- 
gow, 174. 
Coal formation of the west of Scotland, 
89. 
Coles (Mr.) on a new step-rail, and 
railway carriages, 212. 
Colour, cause of the increase of, by the 
inversion of the head, 7. 
Connel (Arthur) on the voltaic de- 
composition of alcohol, 81. 
Contagions, 72. 
Conus, two species of the genus, in 
the lias, near Caen, in Normandy, 
110. 
Cormack (Dr. J. R.) on the effects of 
air when injected into the veins, 157. 
Cornea, opacity of the, produced by 
sulphuric acid, 163. 
Cotton, on the growth of, in India, 146. 
Cowan (Dr.) on the vital statistics of 
Glasgow, 173. 
Cuscuta epilinum, 148, 
Craig (Mr. J.) on the coal formation 
of the west of Scotland, 89. 
Crime, extent of, in Glasgow, 169. 
» comparative view of, in London, 
Dublin and Glasgow, 178. 
——., state of, within the suburban 
districts of Glasgow, 175. 
——,, state of, in the suburban burgh 
of Anderston, 176. 
Croton oil, therapeutic effect of, in 
certain nervous disorders, 156. 
Crystallographic notation, on a new 
method of, 88. 
Daguerreotype, as applied to the draw- 
ing of fossils, 121. 
Daguerreotype drawings, account of 
the camera obscura and other ap- 
paratus used in making, 9. 
Dalyell (John G.) on the regeneration 
of lost organs discharging the func- 
tions of the head and viscera, by 
the Holothuria and Amphitrite, two 
marine animals, 139. 
Danson (Mr. W.) on the Alpaca, 181. 
Devonshire, older strata of, 103. 
Dew point, on the, 40. 
Dircks (Mr.) on a railway wheel with 
wood tyre, 212. 
