130 
Railway trains, on the law which governs the 
resistance to motion of, at high velocities, 
109. 
» on a machine for registering the velo- 
city of, 114. ‘ 
Rain, on the fall of, in the lake districts of 
Cumberland and Westmoreland, in 1845, 
18. 
» readings of mountain gauges in June, 
July and August, 1846, 21. 
, on the fall of, on the coast of Travan- 
core and table land of Uttree, 22. 
Rankin (Rev. T.) on a halo, paraselene, and 
Aurora Borealis, seen at Huggate, in York- 
shire, 15. 
: on the hybernation of snails, 83. 
Raptores, 77. 
Rasores, 78. 
Reade (Dr. J.) experiments in thermo-elec- 
tricity, 46. 
Reeve (Lovell) on the dissimilarity in the 
calcifying functions of Mollusks, whose or- 
ganization is in other respects similar, 82, 
Retzius (Prof.) on the ethnographical distri- 
bution of round and elongated crania, 116. 
Ricardo (M.) on a machine for registering the 
velocity of railway trains, 114. 
Robinson {Rev. Dr.) on the influence which 
finely divided platina exerts on the elec- 
trodes of a voltameter, 46. 
» modification of Dr. Whewell’s anemo- 
'.meter for measuring the velocity of the 
wind, 111. 
Rocks, tertiary, in the islands stretching from 
Java to Timor, 67. 
Ronalds (F.) on the meteorological observa-~ 
tions at Kew, with an account of the pho- 
tographic self-registering apparatus, 10. 
Rose (Prof, H.) on a second new metal, Pelo- 
pium, contained in the Bavarian tantalite, 
37. 
Royle (Prof.) on the geographical distribution 
of the flora of India, with remarks on the 
_ vegetation of its lakes, 74. 
Russell (Scott) on the law which governs the 
__ resistance to motion of railway trains at high 
_ velocities, 109, 
Salmonidz, on the natural and economic hi- 
story of certain species of the, 79. 
Salt, on the applicability of M. Fauvelle’s mode 
to sinkings for, 56- 
, on the extent of the Northwich field, 62. 
Salter (Dr, Bell), directions for the guidance 
of botanists in their excursion to the Isle of 
Wight, and list of flowering plants of in- 
terest in various parts of the island, 86. 
on the true nature of the tendril in the 
~ cucumber, 88. 
Salts, on the expansion of, 49. 
Sanders (W.) on railway sections made on the 
line of the Great Western Railway, between 
Bristol and Taunton, 59. 
Sapperton tunnel, on three sections of the 
oolitic formation on theGreat Western Rail- 
way, at the west end of, 61. 
INDEX Il. 
Scoresby (Rev. W.) on the mode of develop- 
ing the magnetic condition, 35. 
Scotland, on the black-band ironstone of the 
coal-field of, 62. 
, on the medical relief to the parochial 
poor of, under the poor law of, 97. 
Searle (Dr.) on the cause of the blood’s cir- 
culation through the liver, 93. 
Sea-water, and the effects of variation in its 
currents, 51. 
Sensation, on the relation of, to the higher 
mental processes, 92. 
Sharp, (J.) on the comparative value of the 
different kinds of gas meters now in use, 
114, 
Shea Butter-tree growing in Africa, on the, 90. 
Shells, on the microscopic character of, 82. 
Short (Mrs.). on the natives of Timor and 
Maeassar, 115. 
on the inhabitants of Port Essington, 
117. 
Shortrede (Capt. ) on the force of vapour, 16. 
Siberia, on certain races of, 115. 
Sickness, on the statistics of, in the city of 
York, 104. 
Sierra Leone, on the crania of two species of 
crocodile from, 79. 
Silesia, on the origin of the coal of, 50. 
Silk, on the cultivation of it in England, 87. 
Silurian limestone of Hay Head, on the age 
of the, 61, 
Silurian strata, on the discovery of a new spe- 
cies of hypanthocrinite in the upper, 61. 
Snails, on the hybernation of, 83. 
Solar eye-piece, on the arrangement of a, 9. 
Southampton, on the presence of atmospheric 
air, uncombined chlorine, and carbonic acid 
in the water of some of the wells in the 
suburbs of, and their action on lead, 42. 
, on the Artesian well on the common at, 
52. 
, on the applicability of M. Fauvelle’s 
mode of boring Artesian wells to the well 
at, 56. 
Spectrum, on the bands formed by partial in- 
terception of the prismatic, 4. 
Spooner (William Charles) on certain prin- 
ciples which obtain in the application of 
manures, 44. 
Springs, on a new method of boring for Arte- 
sian, 105. 1 
Star, on attempts to explain the apparent pro- 
jection of a, on the moon, 5, 
Statistics, 94. 
Steam boilers, on preventing: incrustation of, 
114. 
Steam-engine, on long and short stroked, 113. 
+ on a vertical, 113, 
Steel, on the physical properties which it 
should possess in the manufacture of mag- 
nets, 34. 
Stephenson’s (Mr.) tubular bridge proposed 
for crossing the Menai Straits, K. Hodg- 
kinson on the, 108, i 
St. Helier, Jersey, meteorological observations 
made at, in the years 1843 to 1846, 13. 
