INDEX II. 
Smoke, description of a furnace for econo- 
mizing fuel and preventing, 99. 
——, model of Mr. Juckes’s furnace for burn- 
ing, 99. 
Sound, on the application of our knowledge 
of the laws of, to the construction of build- 
ings, 96. 
Spar, Iceland, on the ordinary refraction of, 7. 
Specula of telescopes, on polishing the, 11. 
Stars, catalogue of mean places of fifty tele- 
' scopic, observed at Markrea castle by E. J. 
Cooper, 18. 
Statistics, 87. 
——, on the connexion between, and poli- 
tical economy, 94. 
——, contributions to academical, 95. 
Steam, electricity of high-pressure, 39. 
Steam-vessel, method adopted to raise the 
Innisfaile, from the Cork river, 101. 
St. Michael, statistical report of the parish 
of, 87. 
Strickland (H. E.) on the natural affinities of 
the insessorial order of birds, 69. 
—— on the structure and affinities of Upupa, 
Lin., and Trrisor, Lesson, 70. 
Suffolk, on the quantity of rain which falls in, 
with the wind at the several points of the 
compass, 22. 
Sun, change produced by exposure to the 
beams of the, in the properties of an ele- 
mentary substance, 9. 
——, decomposition of carbonic acid gas, 
and the alkaline carbonates, by the light 
of the, 33. 
- Tamnau (Dr. F.) on newly-discovered three- 
_ _ twin crystals of Harmotome, 38. 
Taylor (J.) on a steam-engine for the pur- 
pose of draining the lake of Haarlem, 
100. 
—— on a simple steam-engine indicator, 101. 
Taylor (Dr. W. C.) on the Irish silk manu- 
facture, 89. 
—— onthe pauper lunatics of Ireland, from 
materials supplied by the Earl of Devon, 
90 



Telescopes, on polishing the specula of, 11. 
——, on determining the index error of a 
__ circle by reflexion of the wires of its, 16. 
_Terbium, anew metal, associated with yttria, 
25, 30. 
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Thermometer, observations made with the, 
at Aden in Arabia, 22. 
——, method of testing the hygrometric for- 
mula, as applied to observations made with 
a wet and dry, 36. 
Thomas (Mr.) on abnormal tides, 19. 
Thompson (Wm.) on additions to the fauna 
of Ireland, 73. 
Thompson (Mr.) on the Alpine hare, 68. 
Tides, abnormal, 19. 
sean (R. W.) on the minerals of Cork, 
Tuscany, on the infant industrial schools of, 
93. 
Upupa, Lin., and hrisor, Lesson, structure 
and affinities of, 70. 
Veins, proximate cause of death after the 
spontaneous introduction of air into the, 83. 
Vertebrata of Cork, on the, 68. 
‘Ward (Cornelius) on the principles of con- 
struction adapted to the perfection of the 
flute, 25. 
Water, apparent fall or diminution of, in the 
* Baltic, 59. 
——, application of, as a moving power, 99. 
Waterhouse (G. R.) on the classification of 
the Mammalia, 65. 
Wherland (Dr.) on a rare-case of midwifery 
which occurred in the Cork South District 
Lying-in Hospital in July 1843, 84, 
Will (Dr.) on an improved method of ascer- 
taining the commercial value of alkalies, 
or carbonated alkalies, acids, and oxides of 
manganese, 37. ; 
Williams (Rev. D.) on the granite and other 
voleanic rocks of Lundy Island, 57. 
Wood (Dr.) on the economical uses of cer- 
tain lichens, 79. 
Woodcock, on the nidification of the, in Ire- 
land, 71. 
Yttria, on erbium and terbium associated 
with, 25, 30. 
Zoology, 65. 
Zoophytes, synopsis of the genera and spe- 
cies of, inhabiting the fresh waters of 
Treland, 77. 
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