INDEX II. 



195 



Jukes (J. Beete) on the alteration of clay- 

 slate and gritstone into mica-schist and 

 gneiss by the granite of Wicklow, &c. 

 68. 



Kane (Dr. E. K.) on his expedition up 

 Smith's Sound in search of Sir John 

 Frankhn, 113. 



Kelley (F. M.), explorations through the 

 valley of the Atrato to the Pacific in 

 search of a route for a ship canal, 162. 



Kent's Cavern, Torquay, researches in, 

 v^ith the original MS. memoir of its 

 first opening, 78 ; on the earliest traces 

 of human remains in, 119. 



Knowles (Prof. G. B.) on the movements 

 of Oscillatoriae, 88. 



Kustenjee and the Danube, on the route 

 between, 119. 



Lake (Col. A.), an original letter from 

 General Mouravieff, 113. 



Land and water, on the relative distri- 

 bution of, as affecting climate at dif- 

 ferent geological epochs, 66. 



Languages, on the relation of the Siberian 

 and Armenian, 108. 



La Plata, on the Scelidotherium leptoce- 

 phalum from, 73. 



Lapps and Finns, table of the, in Norway, 

 according to the census of 1845 and 

 1855, 138. 



Latham (R. G.), distribution of the Alba- 

 nians, politically, 145. 



Lawes (J. B.) on some points connected 

 with agricultural chemistry, 172; on 

 the composition of wheat-grain and its 

 products, 173. 



Lee (Dr. John) on Negretti and Zam- 

 bra's mercurial minimum thermometer, 

 40 ; remarks on Dr. H. Barker's pam- 

 phlet on the relative value of the ozo- 

 nometers of Dr. Schonbein and Dr. 

 Moffat, 40. 



Lee (J. E.), on an elephant's grinder 

 from the cerithium limestone, 69 ; on 

 some fossil fishes from the strata of 

 the Moselle, ib. 



Lias, on the middle and upper, of the west 

 of England, 70; of Gloucestershire, 

 Worcestershire, and Warwickshire, on 

 some new species of corals in the, 64. 



Liassic formation, on the south-easterly 

 attenuation of the, 67. 



Light, 9 ; on the theory of compound, 

 with reference to mixtures of blue and 

 yellow, 12; of different colours, on the 

 unequal sensibility of the foramen cen- 

 trale to,12 ; on Fresnel's formulae for re- 

 flected and refracted, 15. 



Lightning, oh the form of, 14. 



Lignites, on the, of the Giant's Cause- 

 way and the Isle of Mull, 66. 



Limbs, on the morphological constitution 

 of, 93. 



Lime, on the composition of American 

 phosphate of, 58 ; on basic phosphates 

 of, ib. 



Limestone, cerithium, on an elephant's 

 grinder from the, 69 ; on the formation 

 of magnesian, by the alteration of an 

 ordinary calcareous deposit, 77. 



Lindsay (Dr. W. L.) on the genus Abro- 

 thallus, 88. 



Livingston (Rev. Dr. D.), return journey 

 across South Africa, 113. 



Locke (J.), a new route to India — the 

 Syro-Arabian railway, 114. 



Ludlow rock, on the bone-beds of the 

 upper, 70. 



Lundy, on the igneous rocks of, 65. 



Macadam (Stevenson) on the detection of 

 strychnine, 55. 



Macfie (W. A.) on the patent laws, 164. 



Macpherson (Dr. D.), researches in the 

 Crimean Bosphorus, and on the site of 

 the ancient Greek city of Panticapaum 

 (Kertch), 115. 



Magnetism, 9. 



Magnetic force, on the law of, 11. 



Malvern district, on some phaenomena in 

 the, 78. 



Mammal fossil, from the Stonesfieid slate, 

 on a, 73. 



Man, on a more positive knowledge of 

 the changes, both physical and mental, 

 with a view to ascertain their causes, 

 108. 



Manatee, Dr. Baikie on a skull of a, 91. 



Manures, on the economical manufacture 

 of, from fish and fishy matter, 164. 



Masters (M.) on an abnormal growth in 

 a rosewood tree, 90. 



Mathematics, 1. 



Maynooth cast-iron battery, on a modifi- 

 cation of the, 16. 



Maxwell (J. C.) on a method of drawing 

 the theoretical forms of Faraday's lines 

 of force without calculation, 12 ; on the 

 unequal sensibility of the foramen 

 centrale to light of different colours, ib. ; 

 on the theory of compound colours with 

 reference to mixtures of blue and yel- 

 low light, ib. ; on an instrument to il- 

 lustrate Poinsot's theory of rotation, 27. 



Measures, on the diversity of, in the corn- 

 markets of the United Kingdom, 137; 

 plan for simplifying and improving 

 the, of this country, 146. 

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