INDEX II. 
Neison (F. G. P.), statistics of crime in Eng- 
land and Wales, for the years 1842, 1843, 
and 1844, 102. 
Nekrasowzers of Bessarabia, on the, 115. 
Nemalite, analysis of the American mineral, 
39. 
Nesodon, new species, 66. 
Newfoundland, on the aborigines of, 114. 
, on a vocabulary of the Bethuck Indians 
of, 115. 
Northumberland, on some’ new species of ani- 
mals found on the coast of, 83. 
Northwich salt-field, on the extent of the, 62. 
Oersted (Prof.) on the deviation of falling 
bodies from the perpendicular, in a letter 
to Sir John Herschel, Bart., 2. 
on the changes which mercury some- 
times suffers in glass vessels hermetically 
sealed, 37. 
Oolitic formations on the Great Western Rail- 
way, on three sections of the, at the west 
end of Sapperton tunnel, 61. 
Ormerod (G. Wareing) on the extent of the 
Northwich salt-field, 62. 
Osborn (Henry) on the presence of atmo- 
spheric air, uncombined chlorine, and car- 
bonic acid found in the water of some of 
the wells in the suburbs of Southampton, 
and their action on lead, 42. 
Owen (Prof.) on some fossil Mammalia of 
South America, 65. 
Oxford University statistics, 99. 
Paraselene at Huggate, on a, 15. 
Paris, comparison of the periods of the flower- 
ing of plants in the early spring of 1846, in 
the Botanic Gardens of Belfast, and the 
Jardin des Plantes at, 90. 
Pastures, on the fairy rings of, 43. 
Patterson (R.) on specimens of Ascidians dis- 
covered in the links of the chain of the 
floating bridge at Itchin, near Southamp- 
ton, 83. 
Peach (C. W.) on the marine zoology of 
Cornwall, 86. 
Pelopium, on a second new metal contained 
in the Bavarian tantalite, 37. 
Percy (Dr. John) on a gas furnace for orga- 
nic analysis, 49. 
Perpendicular, on the deviation of falling 
bodies from the, 2. 
Petrie (W.) on the results of an extensive 
series of magnetic investigations, including 
most of the known varieties of steel, 33. 
Philology, on the present state of ethnologi- 
cal, 115. 
Phipps (Dr. J.) on the sailing powers of two 
yachts, built on the wave principle, 112. 
Photographic  self-registering apparatus at 
Kew, account of the, 10. 
Photography, on representing natural history 
objects by means of, 82. 
Phyllanthus, on the foliage and inflorescence 
of the genus, 91. 
Physico-geographical survey of the British 
129 
islands, particularly in relation to agricul- 
ture, 72. 
Physics, 1. 
Polarization of light by reflexion, on certain 
cases of elliptic, 3. 
, elliptic, 5. 
Poor law, on the medical relief to the paro- 
chial poor of Scotland under the old, 97. 
Portlock (Captain) on the natural history of - 
Corfu, 84. 
Potash, chrysammate of, on a new property of 
light exhibited in the action of, upon com- 
mon and polarized light, 7. 
Potato, on the application of the principles of a 
natural system of organic chemistry to the 
explanation of the phenomena occurring 
in the diseased tuber, 44. 
, on the means of obviating the ravages 
of the disease in the, 89. 
, on proposed substitutes for the, 90. 
Powell (Rev. Prof.) on certain cases of ellip- 
tical polarization of light by reflexion, 3. 
on the bands formed by partial inter- 
ception of the prismatic spectrum, 4. 
on attempts to explain the apparent 
projection of a star on the moon, 5. 
Plants, comparison of the periods of the flow- 
ering of, in the spring of 1846, in the Bo- 
tanic Garden of Belfast, and the Jardin des 
Plantes at Paris, 90. 
Platina, on the influence which finely divided, 
exerts on the electrodes of a voltameter, 
46. 
Playfair (Dr. Lyon) on the expansion of salts, 
49. 
Plumb-line, on certain deviations of the, from 
its mean direction, in the neighbourhood of 
Shanklin Down, Isle of Wight, 59. 
Prestwich (Joseph, Jun.) on the occurrence of 
Cypris in a part of the tertiary freshwater 
strata of the Isle of Wight, 56. 
Price (John) on the embryogeny of Pulmo- 
grades and Ciliogrades, 86. 
on the quasi-osseous system of Acale- 
phe, 87. 
Prideaux (J.) on the extent, causes and re- 
medies of fungi destructive in agriculture, 
44, g 
Princes’ Island, on the inhabitants of, 117. 
Propulsion, on applying atmospheric air to, 
113. 
Prussiates, on the difference in the physio- 
logical actions of the yellow and red, as an 
evidence of their containing dissimilar ra- 
dicals, 41. 
Psychrometer, on a self-registering, 17. 
Pulmogrades, on the embryogeny of, 86. 
Pycnogonidez, on the structure of the, 82. 
Radicals, on the difference in the physiologi- 
cal actions of the yellow and red prussiates 
as an evidence of their containing dissimi- 
lar, 41. 
Railway sections made on the line of the 
Great Western Railway between Bristol 
and Taunton, 59. 
