136 
Electrical observations at Kew, report on the 
discussion of the, 113. 
Electricity, positive, 113. 
, observations of negative, 178. 

Fossil remains found in the coal formation, 
On the influence of carbonic acid gas on the 
health of plants allied to the, 56. 
Gas, on the influence of carbonic acid, on the 
health of plants, 56. 
, combustions in oxygen, 76. 
—. in chlorine, 77. 


Heat of combination, on the, 63. 
Henfrey (A.) on the registration of the pe- 
riodic phenomena of plants and animals, 78. 
Henslow (Prof.) on the registration of the 
cant phenomena of plants and animals, 
8. 
—-— on the growth and vitality of seeds, 78. 
Hungary, list of meteorites which have fallen 
in, 2. 
Iron, presence of phosphorus in meteoric, 33. 
, on chloride of barium and protosulphate 
of, 72. 

Jenyns (Rev. L.) on the registration of the 
periodic phenomena of plants and animals, 
78. 
Kew, report concerning the observatory at, 80. 
, on the discussion of the electrical ob- 
servations at, 113. 

Lankester (Dr.) on the registration of the 
periodic phenomena of plants and animals, 
78. 
Lead, acetate of, and sulphate of magnesia, 73. 
‘ , and sulphate of soda, 73. 
—, , and sulphate of zinc, 73. 
and sulphuric acid, acetate of, 74. 
, nitrate of, 75. 
and oxalic acid, acetate of, 75. 
Lindley (Prof.) on the growth and vitality of 
seeds, 78. 
Lowe (E. J.), general results of observations 
on meteors, 44. 




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Magnesia, experiment with chloride of ba- 
rium and sulphate of, 71. 
, on nitrate of barytes and sulphate of, 72. 
, acetate of lead and sulphate of, 73. 
Mallet (Robert) on railway bar corrosion, 88. 
Metallic substitutions, 76. 
Metals in nitric acid, solution of, 74. 
Meteoric iron, presence of phosphorus in, 33. 
Meteorites which haye fallen in Hungary, 
list of, 2. 
, fall of, at Stannern, near Blansko, Mo- 
ravia, 32. 
of Braunau, on the, 32, 
Meteors, a catalogue of luminous, 1; ap- 
' pendix, 32. 




INDEX I. 
Meteors previous to former catalogue, observa- 
tions of, 2. 
and star-showers, on M. Chasles’ col- 
lection of luminous, 1. 
in 1843 and 1844, communicated by 
Dr. Buist, 3. 
, supplemental table to last report on, 
from 1846 to 1848, 8. 
, continuation of table on, in Report for 
1848, 11. 
——- seen at Aden, 34. 
— seen at Poona, 34. 
at Mazagon and Sewree, 35. 
seen near Windsor, 37. 
at Pisa, 37. 
at Whitechapel, 38. 
at Bombay, 38, 41. 
at Poona, 39, 41. 
seen at Sholapore, 39. 
at Surat, 40. 
—— at Jaulna,. 40. - 
at Aurungabad, 40, 
from Cochin, 41. 
at Hingolee, 41. 
at Malabar Point, 42. 
at Rose Hill, 43. 
—— by Mr. Lowe, 43. 
at Birmingham, 43, 44. 
——,, general results of observations on, 44. 
, details of observations of, 50; remarks 
on them, 52. 





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Nebulz lately observed in the six-feet re- 
flector, 53. 
Peach (Mr.) on the registration of the pe- 
riodic phenomena of plants and animals, 78. 
Phosphorus in certain meteoric irons, 33, 
Plants, on the influence of carbonic acid gas 
on the health of, 56. 
, on the registration of the periodic pha- 
nomena of, 78. 
Powell (Prof. Baden), a catalogue of obser- 
vations of luminous meteors, continued 
from the Report of 1848, 1; appendix, 32. 

Railway bar corrosion, on, 88. 
Ronalds (Francis), report on the observatory 
at Kew, from Aug. 9, 1848 to Sept. 12, 1849, 
80. 
Rosse (The Earl of) on nebule lately ob- 
served in the six-feet reflector, 53. 
Seeds, ninth report on the growth and vita- 
lity of, 78. 
Smyth (W. W.), list of meteorites which have 
fallen in Hungary, 2. 
on a fall of meteorites at Stannern, in 
Moravia, 32. 
at Braunau, 32. 
on the presence of phosphorus in me- 
teoric iron, 33. 
Soda, nitrate of barytes and sulphate of, 73. 
, acetate of lead and sulphate of, 73. 
Strickland (H. E.) on the growth and vitality 
of seeds, 78. 





