124 
Aquatice, 78. 
Artesian wells, on Southampton common, on 
the, 52. 
, on the applicability of M. Fauvelle’s 
mode of boring, to the well at Southampton, 
and to other wells, 56. 
Artesian springs, on a new method of boring 
for, 105. 
Ascidians, specimens of, discovered in the 
links of the chain of the floating bridge at 
Itchin, near Southampton, 83. 
Atmospheric tube, on a new, 113. 
recorder, on an, 17. 
Aurora Borealis, observations on the, during 
the year 1845, at Alten, 12. 
at Huggate, on, 15. 
Australia, on the geological structure of, 68. 
Aves constrictipedes, 77. 
inconstrictipedes, 78. 
Azimuth compass, on a new portable, 25. 
Bald (Robert) on the Mushet band, commonly 
called the black-band ironstone of the coal- 
field of Scotland, 62. 
Banks (Dr.) on a new anemometer, 12. 
Barometer, on a self-registering, 17. 
, on the relations of the semi-diurnal 
movementsof the, tolandandsea breezes, 25. 
Beetle, on a specimen of a, found imbedded 
in some artificial concrete, 82. 
Beke (C. T.) on the physical character of the 
table-land of Abessinia, 70. 
Belfast, comparison of the periods of the 
flowering of plants in the early spring of 
1846, in the Botanic Garden of, and the 
Jardin des Plantes at Paris, 90. 
Belgium, on the mines and mining industry 
of, 101. 
Bell (Prof.) on the crustacea found by Prof. 
E. Forbes and Mr. M°Andrew in their 
cruises round the coast, 80. 
Bennet (Dr. H.) on a peculiar form of ulce- 
ration of the cervix uteri, 94. 
Bessarabia, on the Nekrasowzers of, 115. 
Bethuck Indians of Newfoundland, on a vo- 
cabulary of the, 115. 
Bevan (Dr.) on applying atmospheric air to 
propulsion, 113. 
Birds, synopsis of the classification of the ge- 
nera of British, 76. 
, new species of humming, from the 
Andes, 79. 
, on the figures of, observed on a tomb 
at Memphis, 79. 
, list of the names of periodical, and the 
dates of their appearance and disappear- 
ance at Llanrwst, 79. 
Birt (W. R.) on atmospheric waves, 35. 
Blackwall (John), list of the names of perio- 
dical birds, and the dates of their appear- 
ance and disappearance, at Llanrwst, 79. 
Blake (James) on the connexion between the 
isomorphous relations of the elements and 
their physiological action, 40. 
Blaps mortisaga found imbedded in some 
artificial concrete, 82. 
INDEX II. 
Blood’s circulation through the liver, on the 
cause of the, 93. 
Bodies, on the deviation of falling, from the 
perpendicular, 2. 
Bodmer (Mr.) on long and short stroked 
steam-engines, 113. 
Bollaert (W.) on the Comanche Indians, 116. 
on the Indian tribes of Texas, 117. 
Bombay, meteorological observations taken 
at Fort George Barracks, in July, August 
and September, 1845, 26. 
Bonny, the Africans of the neighbourhood 
of, 117. 
Bonomi (J.) on the figures of birds observed 
on a tomb at Memphis, 79. 
Boring for Artesian springs, on a new method 
of, 105. 
Botanists, directions for the guidance of, in 
their excursion to the Isle of Wight, 86. 
Botany, 74. 
Bracklestone Bay, on the fossils of, 67. 
Brewster (Sir David) on a new property of 
light exhibited in the action of chrysammate 
of potash upon common and polarized light, 
7 
Brian (Capt.) on the Africans of the neigh- 
bourhood of Bonny, 117. 
Bridge, tubular, proposed by Mr. Stephenson 
for crossing the Menai Straits, on the, 108. 
Brisbane (General Sir T. M.) results of the 
magnetic observations made at his obser- 
vatory, 32. 
Bristol and Taunton, on railway sections made 
on the line of the Great Western railway, 
between, 59. 
British islands, synopsis of a proposal respect- 
ing a physico-geographical survey of the, 
particularly in relation to agriculture, 
72. 
seas, on the pulmograde meduse of the, 
84. 
Brockedon (Mr.) on vulcanized caoutchouc, 
113. 
Brooke (C.) on the construction of a self-re- 
gistering barometer, thermometer, and psy- 
chrometer, 17. 
Broun (J. A.) on some results of the magnetic 
observations made at General Sir T. M. 
Brisbane’s observatory, 32. 
Buckland (Rev. W.) on the applicability of 
M. Fauvelle’s mode of boring artesian wells 
to the well at Southampton, and to other 
wells, and to sinkings for coal, salt, and 
other mineral beds, 56. ; 
Buckman (James) on the discovery of a new 
species of Hypanthocrinite in the upper Si- 
lurian strata, 61. 
on the age of the Silurian limestone of 
Hay Head, near Barr Beacon, in Stafford- 
shire, 61. 
Bullar (Dr. Joseph) on the identity of certain 
electro-magnetic laws, 29. 
Butter-tree, on the Shea, growing in Africa, 90. 
Calcium, on the extent to which fluoride of, 
is soluble n water at, 60° F., 38. 
