220 
Douglas (James) on dislocation of the 
ankle-jeint forward and backward ; 
and on the reproduction of bone 
after the operation of trepan, 165. 
Dunfermline, on the parish of, 186. 
Dunn (John) on the vital statistics of 
Scarborough, 167. 
Dunn (Mr.) on an improved working 
barrel for use in sinking pits, &c., 
208. 
Ear, mechanical functions of the, 154. 
Earth, temperature of the, in the mines 
near, 17. 
Edinburgh and Glasgow, comparative 
vital statistics of, 173. 
Egg, development of the fish in the, 
129. 
Electricity, theory of, 24. 
Electro-magnetical machines, princi- 
ples of, 18. 
Engines, locomotive, on wrought iron 
wheels for, 212. 
England, state of education and crime 
in, 185. 
Equations, algebraic, expressibility of 
the roots of, 54. 
Equilibration, catenary and curves of, 
190. 
Espy (James P.) on storms, 30. 
Espy (Mr.) on the four daily fluctua- 
tions of the barometer, 55. 
Ettling (Dr.) on the identity of spiroi- 
lous and saliculous acid, 78. 
Exostosis, on a case of, 165. 
Fairbairn (Mr.) on the fan-blast as 
applied to furnaces, 199. 
on the strength of iron with re- 
spect to its application as a substi- 
tute for wooden ship-building, 201. 
on raising water from low lands, 
210. 
Fan-blast, as applied to furnaces, 
199. 
Faroe islands, depression of the coast 
of the, 123. 
Farquharson (Dr.) on the strongest 
form of sea-borne vessels, 191. 
Featherstonhaugh (G. H.) on the geo- 
graphy of New Brunswick, 121. 
Felkin (Mr.) on the growth of cotton, 
146. 
Fevers, laws which govern contagious, 
160. 
INDEX II. 
Findlater (Mr.) on the state of crime 
in the suburban burgh of Ander- 
ston, 176. 
Fisher (Rev. J.) on remarkable rain- 
bows, 12. 
Fisher (Rev. J. M.) on the granite 
formations of Newabbey, in Gallo- 
way, 95. 
Fluids, new mode of propelling, 190. 
Fcetus in the human species, anatomi- 
cal relation of the mother to those 
of the, 153. 
Forbes (Edward) on a pleistocene tract 
in the Isle of Man, and the relations 
of its fauna to that of the neighbour- 
ing sea, 104. 
and John Goodsir, on Pelonaia, 
a new genus of Ascidian mollusca, 
137. 
141. 
Forbes (Prof.) on excessive falls of 
rain, 43. 
Forbes (Dr.) on the mean apsidal angle 
of the moon’s orbit, 1. 
Fossil fishes of North Brazil, 118. 
Fossils, on the daguerreotype as ap- 
plied to the drawing of, 121. 
Fowler’s (Mr.) new calculating ma- 
chine, 55. 
Fowler (Dr. N.) on the functions of 
the fifth pair of nerves, and of the 
ganglia, &c., 156. 
Fox (G. T.) on the subject of a paper 
on the structure of whales, 131. 
, on the British Ciliograda, 
Galloway and Ayrshire, discovery of 
lead on the borders of, 97. 
Galvanoplastics, Prof. Jacobi on his 
discovery of, 89. 
Gardner (George) on the geology and 
fossil fishes of North Brazil, 118. 
Gas-regulator, 213. 
Gastric and intestinal glands, struc- 
ture of the, 149. 
Gastro-intestinal mucous membrane, 
structure of the, 149. 
Geography of New Brunswick, 121. 
Geology, 89. 
and fossil fishes of North Brazil, 
118 
and mineralogy of Canada, 114. 
Germany, geological maps of different 
parts of, 124. 
——,, libraries of, 186. 
