112 
Neottia gemmipara, 78. 
Nereis tubicola, on specimens from the coast 
of Scotland, 76. 
Nott (John) on a new electrical machine, and 
upon the electricity of the atmosphere, 15. 
Nucleobranchia, on the addition of the or- 
der, to the British molluscous fauna, 72. 
O’Connor (Dr.) on the sudden falling off of 
the hair of the head, eyebrows, and eye- 
lashes from fright, 84. 
Mnanthe crocata, deleterious effects of, 81. 
O’Flanagan (Mr.), description of the Black- 
water river, 93. 
Oil, on a new, for lubricating machinery, 99. 
Oils, action of two blue, upon light, 8. 
Olliffe (Dr.) on a peculiar disease of the 
biliary ducts, 79. 
—— on intestinal obstruction, 82. 
Osborne (Dr.) on the statistics of lunacy, 
with special relation to the asylum in 
Cork, 96. 
Peach (C. W.) on the fossils of Polperro in 
Cornwall, 56. 
po inp barometric compensation of the, 
17. 
——, new mode of suspending the, 101. 
“Permian system,” on the, as applied to 
Germany, 52. 
Phillips (Prof. J.) on certain movements in 
the parts of stratified rocks, 60. 
on the Ordnance geological museum, 61. 
Photography, chromatype anew process of, 34. 
——,, on a new process of, by which dormant 
pictures are produced capable of develop- 
ment by the breath, or by keeping in a 
moist atmosphere, 8. 
Physical results, method of graphical repre- 
sentation as applied to, 4. 
Physics, 1. 
Pickells (Dr.), eulogium on the late Richard 
Kirwan, LL.D., 39. 
— on the deleterious effects of @nanthe 
crocata, 81. 
Plants, influence of light on the growth of, 35. 
——, catalogue of, found in the neighbour- 
hood of Cork, 79. 
Plumatella repens, 74. 
Polarization, elliptic, in light, reflected from 
various substances, 9. 
Polperro, fossils of, 56. 
Popham (John) on the treatment of gangrene 
of the lungs by chloride of lime, 82. 
, statistical returns of the North Cork 
Infirmary during a period of five years, 
from July 1838 to July 1843, 84. 
Portlock (Capt.) on the geology of Corfu, 57. 
Powell (Rey. Prof.) on elliptic polarization in 
light reflected from various substances, 9. 
——, contributions to academical statistics, 
Oxford, 95. 
Power (Dr.) on plants found in the neigh- 
bourhood of Cork, 79. 
Prichard (John) meteorological register for 
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at Beddgelert, in the county of Caernar- 
von, 20. 
Propeller, on the marine, 100. 
Pycnonotus chrysorrhaus, specimen of, shot 
near Waterford, 71. 
Railway, atmospheric, on the opening of the 
Kingstown and Dublin line of, 101. 
Rain, quantity of, which falls in the south- 
west of Ireland and in Suffolk, with the 
wind at the several points of the com- 
pass, 22. 
Reflexion, theory of total, and of the insen- 
sible refraction which accompanies it, 4. 
——, attempt to explain theoretically the 
phenomena of metallic, 6. 
Rhine, Middle, important additions recently 
made to the fossil contents of the tertiary 
and alluvial basin of the, 55. 
Robinson (Rev. Dr.) on determining the in- 
dex error of a circle by reflexion of the 
wires of its telescope, 16. 
on the barometric compensation of the 
pendulum, 17; addendum to, 102. 
Rocks, stratified, on certain movements in 
the parts of, 60. 
——, agency of glaciers in transporting, 62. 
Rogers (H. D.) on the pheenomena and theory 
of earthquakes, and the explanation they 
afford of certain facts in geological dyna- 
mics, 57. 
Rosse (the Earl of), letter from the Astrono- 
mer Royal to, on numerous traces of glacier- 
friction on the north-west side of Bantry 
Bay, 62. 
Russell (Scott) on the application of our 
knowledge of the laws of sound to the con- 
struction of buildings, 96. 
Ryan (Mr.) on the application of water as a 
moving power, 99. 

Sabine (Col.) on the agency of glaciers in 
transporting rocks, 62. 
Sandstone, old red, of freland, 46. 
Saxifrages, on the Irish, 78. 
Schools, on the infant industrial, of Tus- 
cany, 93. 
Scoresby (Rev. W.) on the circumstances 
which affect the energy of artificial mag- 
nets, 13. 
Sea, flux and reflux of the, at Arbroath, 
July 5, 1843, 18. 
——, method of ascertaining inaccessible 
distances at, 102. 
Shells, on the occurrence of a bed of sand 
containing recent marine, 50. 
——, microscopic structure of, 71. 
Silk manufacture, on the Irish, 89. 
Silurian district of Ireland, on the, 46. 
Sleigh (Capt. A. W.) on the buoyant float- 
water, 102. 
Smoke, chemical composition of, its produc- 
tion and influence on organic substances, 39. 
, production and prevention of, 39. 
——, on the prevention of, from engine'boilers 
and other furnaces, 98. 


