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INDEX 1. 



Locomotiveboilers,onthe strength of, and 

 the causes which lead to explosion,53. 



Mallet (R.). provisional report on earth- 

 quake wave-transits, and on seismo- 

 metrical instruments, 86 ; third report 

 on the facts of earthquake phsenomena 

 (continued), 117. 



Metals, on the mechanical properties of, 

 as derived from repeated meltings, 87. 



Meteors, on luminous, 2 ; catalogue of, 

 continued from Reportofl851-52,i6. 



Moon's surface, on the physical character 

 of the, as compared with that of the 

 earth, 84. 



MjTtle (Dr.) on a luminous object seen 

 near Edinburgh, in 1839, 32. 



Gldham (James) on the physical fea- 

 tures of the Humber, 36 ; on the rise, 

 progress, and present position of steam 

 navigation in Hull, 45. 



Phillips (Prof.), first report on the phy- 

 sical character of the moon's surface, 

 as compared with that of the earth, 84. 



Powell (Rev. Prof.), sixth report on 

 observations of luminous meteors, 

 1852-53, 1 ; appendix, 32. 



Rankine (W. J. M.) on meteors ob- 



served near Edinburgh in 1839 and 

 1852, 32. 



Robinson (the Rev. Dr.), first report on 

 the physical character of the moon's 

 surface, as compared with that of the 

 earth, 84. 



Rosse (the Earl of), first report on the 

 physical character of the moon's sur- 

 face, as compared with that of the 

 earth, 84. 



Seeds, on the growth and vitality of, 67' 



Seismometrical instruments, on, 86. 



Solar radiations, on the chemical action 

 of the, 68. 



Steam navigation in Hull, on the rise, 

 progress, and present position of, 45. 



Strickland (H. E.), thirteenth report on 

 the growth and vitality of seeds, 67. . 



Sylvester (J. J.) on the theory of deter- 

 minants, 66. 



Victoria Park, on shootmg stars seen 

 from, 34. 



Wave-transits, on earthquake, 86. 

 Wrottesley (Lord) on a meteor seen 

 October 12, 1852, 35. 



Yorkshire coast, on the degradation of 

 the, 81. 



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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 

 SECTIONS. 



Africa, on crystals from the sea- 

 coast of, 45 ; on a second journev to 

 St. Lucia Bav, and the adjacent coun- 

 try in S.E., 90. 



Aire valley deposit near Leeds, on the 

 remains of the Hippopotamus found in 

 the, 51. 



Alarum for steam-boilers, on a patent 

 safety, 119. 



Alga, on a new, 63. 



AUman (Dr.) on the structure of the 

 endocbrome in Conferva Linum, 62 ; 



on the utricular structure of the en- 

 docbrome, a species of Conferva, ib. > 

 on the structure of Hydra viridis, 64> 

 66 ; on the structure of Bursaria, 65. 



Anderson (Sir C.) on the influence of 

 the invasion of the Danes and Scandi- 

 navians in early times, on certain 

 localities in England, 73. 



Andrews (Dr.) on a simple instrument 

 for graduating glass tubes, 37. 



Animals, report of committee for regis- 

 tration of periodic phEenomena in, 70. 



