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INDEX 1. 



Forests, on the destruction of tropical, 79. 



Gladstone (Dr. and Mr. G.), provisional 

 report on the growth of plants in dif- 

 ferent gases, 372. 



Glycerides, on the use of the term, 129. 



Haverhill, on shooting stars seen at, 39. 



Henfrey (Arthur) on the reproduction 

 and supposed existence of sexual organs 

 in the higher cryptogamous plants, 102. 



Henry (Prof.) on the system of meteoro- 

 logical observations proposed to be esta- 

 blished in the United States, 320. 



Henslow (Prof.), eleventh report on the 

 growth and vitality of seeds, 53. 



Hepaticae, on the, 106. 



Hydrocarbon, on the use of the term, 126. 



India, on meteors seen in, 45 ; timber- 

 trees of, 97. 



Indo-German philology, on two unsolved 

 problems in, 138. 



Isoetacese, on the, 114. 



Kew magnetographs, on the, 320, 328. 



Kew Observatory, eighth report on the, 

 335 ; on the building, instruments, &c., 

 336 ; electrical apparatus, ib. ; anemo- 

 meter, 341 ; rain-gauges, ib. ; thermo- 

 meters, hygrometers, &c., ib. ; baro- 

 meters, 346 ; magnetographs, 350 ; 

 electro-meteorological observations 

 made at the, 354; experiments, &c., 

 358 ; miscellaneous memoranda, &c., 

 368. 



Killeney bay-sand, rate of wave-transit in 

 the, 274. 



Kishnaghur, on a meteor observed at, 44. 



Lindley (Prof.), eleventh report on the 



growth and vitality of seeds, 53. 

 Lycopodiaceae, on the. 111. 



Magnetographs, Kew, on the, 320, 328. 



Mallet(Kobert), second report on the facts 

 of earthquake phenomena, 272. 



Meteoric pheenomena seen at Toronto, 40. 



Meteorological observations proposed to 

 be established in the United States, on 

 the system of. 320. 



Meteors, luminous, catalogue of, prior to 

 last catalogue, July 1 850, 2 ; appendix 

 to, 38; seen at Ventnor, ib.; at Sand- 

 wich, ib. ; at Port Madoc, Caernarvon- 

 shire, 39 ; at CoUingwood, ib. ; near 

 Cxford, 40; at Pocklington, 41; at 

 Durham, 42 ; in India, 44 ; at Kish- 

 naghur, ib. ; at Bombay, 44, 45, 47, 48, 

 50 ; at Shorapore, 46 ; at Camp Beer- 



hoom district, between Poonah and 

 Bombay, 47 ; at Mazagon, 48, 50, 51 ; 

 at Cawnpore, 48 ; at Kolapore, 48, 50 ; 

 list of, observed in past years, 49 ; at 

 Kilkenny House, Bath, ib. ; in British 

 Caffraria, 5 1 ; at Belfast, 52 ; at Poona, 

 51. 

 Mosses, on the, 104. 



Oils, essential, on the use of the term, 127. 



Organic bodies, on the classes of, 126 ; on 

 the terminations of the words designa- 

 ting the members of each class of, 131. 



Organic compounds, on the nomenclature 

 of, 124. 



Oxford, on meteors seen near, 40. 



Philology, on two unsolved problems in 



Indo-German, 138. 

 Plants, on the reproduction and supposed 



existence of sexual organs in the higher 



cryptogamous, 102 ; provisional report 



on the growth of, in different gases, 372. 

 Pocklington, Yorkshire, on meteors and 



shooting-stars seen at, 41. 

 Port Madoc, Caernarvonshire, on a meteor 



seen at, 39. 

 Powell (Rev. Baden), fourth report on 



observations of luminous meteors, 1 . 



Resin, on the use of the term, 127. 



Rhizocarpese, on the, 116. 



Ronalds (Francis), eighth report on the 



observatory at Kew, 335. 

 Royle (Prof.) on the destruction of tropical 



forests, 79. 



Sabine (Colonel), letter to, from Prof. 

 Henry on the system of meteorological 

 observations proposed to be established 

 in the United States, 320 ; report on 

 the Kew magnetographs, 325. 



Salts, neutral, on the use of the term, 127. 



Sandwich, on a meteor seen at, 38. 



Scotland, geographical survey of, report 

 of the committee on the, 370. 



Seeds, on the growth and vitality of, 53. 



Seismoscope, on the, 278. 



Sexual organs in the higher cryptogamous 

 plants, on the reproduction and sup- 

 posed existence of, 102. 



Smith (Dr. R. A.) on the air and water of 

 towns. Action of porous strata, water 

 and organic matter, 66. 



Smith (Capt. R. Baird) on the destruction 

 of tropical forests, 79. 



Southampton, remarks on the climate of, 

 54. 



Stars, shooting, seen at Haverhill, 39 ; 

 seen at Steeple Claydon, 40 ; at Bom- 



