128 
Letheby (H.).on the action of oxalic acid upon 
the dead tissues of the animal body, 41. 
on the difference in the physiological 
actions of the yellow and red prussiates as 
an evidence of their containing dissimilar 
radicals, 41. 
Liddell (A.) on the statistics of education in 
Glasgow in 1846, 101. 
Life, on the duration of, in the members of 
the several professions, 99. 
Light, en certain cases of elliptic polarization 
of, by reflexion, 3. 
, on a new property of, exhibited in the 
action of chrysammate of potash upon 
common and polarized light, 7. 
Limax Sowerbii, on certain peculiarities in 
the anatomy of, 82. 
Limestone of Hay Head, on the age of the 
Silurian, 61. 
Liver, on the cause of the blood’s circulation 
through the, 93. 
Llanrwst, in N. Wales, list of names of perio- 
dical birds, and the dates of their appear- 
ance and disappearance at, 79. 
London clay, on the fishes of the, 52. 
Lough Neagh, zoology of, compared with that 
of the Lake of Geneva, 84. 
Louisenberg, on the natural peculiarities of 
the mountain so called, 91. 
Lyell (Charles) on the delta and alluvial de- 
posits of the Mississippi, and other points in 
the geology of North America, observed in 
the years 1845-46, 117. 
Macassar, on the natives of, 115. 
Macrauchenia, 66. 
Magnetic causation, 33. 
condition, on the mode of developing 
the, 35. 
observations made at General Sir T. M. 
Brisbane’s observatory, 32. 
Magnets, on the process of manufacture to 
produce, having the greatest fixity and ca- 
pacity conjointly secured, 33. 
Mammalia of South America, on some fossil, 
65. 
Manchester police, criminal and miscellaneous 
statistical returns of the, for the year 1845, 
98. 
Manures, on certain principles which obtain 
in the application of, 44. 
Marine zoology of Cornwall, on the, 86. 
Mathematics, 1. 
Matter, on the constitution and forces of mo- 
lecules of, 35. 
Matteucci (Prof.) summary of researches in 
electro-physiology, 28. 
on the electrization of needles in differ- 
ent media, 46. 
Mayes (William), abstracts of meteorological 
observations made at Aden in 1845, 26. 
, meteorological observations taken at 
Fort George Barracks, Bombay, in 1845, 
26. 
M° Andrew (Mr.), Prof. Bell on the crustacea 
found by, in cruising round the coast, 80. 
INDEX II. 
Mechanical Science, 105. ; 
Medical Science, 92. : 
Meduse of the British seas, on the pulmo- 
grade, 84. 
Memphis, on the figures of birds observed on 
a tomb at, 79. 
Men, on the three races of, inhabiting the is- 
lands of the Indian and Pacific oceans, 114. 
Menai bridge, on increasing to larger dimen- 
sions the model tubes for the proposed, 109. 
Menai straits, on the tubular bridge proposed 
by Mr. Stephenson for crossing the, 108. 
Mercury, on the changes which it undergoes 
in glass vessels hermetically sealed, 37. 
Metal, on a second new, contained in the Ba- 
varian tantalite, 37. 
Meteorological observations, on the Kew, 10. 
made at Alten, at the Kaafjord Obser- 
vatory, in 1844 and 1845, 12. 
at Christiana, in 1845, 12. 
at St. Helier, Jersey, in the years 1843 
to 1846, 13. 
at Fort George Barracks, Bombay, in 
1845, 26. 
at Aden in 1845, abstracts of, 246. 
Meteorological phenomena, on some, 11. 
Middendorff (Prof. Von.) on certain races of 
Siberia, 115. 
Miller (J. F.) on the fall of rain in the lake 
districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland, 
&c. in the year 1845, 18. 
, readings of mountain rain gauges, in 
June, July and August, 1846, 21. 
Mineral beds, on the applicability of M. Fau- 
velle’s mode to sinkings for, 56. 
Mines and mining industry of Belgium, 101. 
Mississippi, on the delta and alluvial deposits 
of the, 117. 
Mollusca of the Isle of Wight, on the land, 83. 
, on some new and rare British ‘species 
of naked, 83. ‘ 
Mollusks, on the dissimilarity in the calcify- 
ing functions of, 82. 
Moon, on attempts to explain the apparent 
projection of a star on the, 5. 
Morriss-Stirling (T. D.) on proposed substi- 
tutes for the potato, 90. 
Mortality, on the statistics of, in the city of 
York, 104. 
Murchison (Sir R. I.) letter to, from the Hon. 
F. Strangways on the natural peculiarities 
of the mountain now called the Louisen- 
berg, 91. 
Mushet band, on the, 62. 
Myliobatus, on the egg-purse and embryo of 
a species of, 80. 
Natatores, 78. 
Natural history observations made since last 
meeting bearing upon geology, notices of, 
69. 
Needles, electrization of, in different media, 
46. 
Neeld (Mr.) criminal and miscellaneous sta- 
tistical returns of the Manchester police for 
the year 1845, 98. - 
