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INDEX lU 



Asci, on the probability of the conversion 

 of, into spores in certain fungi, 70. 



Asia, on the best means of realizing a 

 rapid intercourse between Europe and, 

 95. 



Asia Minor, notice of travels in, 95. 



Astronomical instruments in the Great 

 Exhibition, account of the, 21 ; on the 

 application of chilled cast iron to the 

 pivots of, 114. 



Astronomical observations, on an appara- 

 tus for making, by means of electro- 

 magnetism, 21. 



Astronomy, 21. 



Atacama, on the meteoric iron of, 84. 



Atkinson (J.) on sea sickness, and a new 

 remedy for its prevention, 75. 



Athletic men of Great Britain, comparison 

 of, with Greek statues, 84. 



Aurora Borealis seen at St. Ives, on Oct. 

 1,1850, 41. 



Australians, notes on the, 95. 



Azores, on some indications of the mol- 

 luscous fauna of the, 70. 



Bakewell (F. C.) on the conduction of 

 electricity through water, G. 



Barnacles, on the occurrence of a stratum 

 of stones covered with, in the red crag 

 at Wherstead, G5. 



Barometer, on the rise and fall of the, 42. 



Bateman (Dr.), account of the astronomi- 

 cal instruments in the Great Exhibition, 

 21. 



Battery, on M. Pulverniacher's patent por- 

 table hydro-electric chain, 52. 



Beaumont (George Barber) on the origin 

 and institutions of the Cymri, 84. 



Beet-sugar manufacture in the United 

 Kingdom, on the prospects of the, 100, 



Beke (C. T.) on a diamond slab supposed 

 to have been cut from the Koh-i-Noor, 

 44; a summary of recent Nilotic dis- 

 covery, 84. 



Ben Cruachan, on granite rocks from, 59. 



Bengal, on the inhabitants of Lower, 95. 



Berkeley (Rev. M. J.) on some facts 

 tending to show the probability of the 

 conversion of Asci into spores in certain 

 fungi, 70. 



Bird, on the remains of a gigantic, from 

 the London clay of Shcppey, 55. 



Blood, on a sample of, containing fat, 77. 



BoUaert (G. A.) on the meteoric iron of 

 Atacama, 84. 



BoUacrt (W. J.) on certain tribes of South 

 America, 84. 



Bollaert (W.), letter to Mr. R. Budge 

 on the great earthquake experienced in 

 Chile, April 2, 1851, 85. 



Bond (G. P. and R. F.) on an apparatus 

 for making astronomical observations 

 by means of electro-magnetism, 21. 



Borneo, on the geography of, with de- 

 scription of the island and its chief 

 products, 88 ; on the geography of the 

 northern portion of, 89. 



Botanical geography of part of the Hima- 

 laya and Tibet, on the, 72 ; of western 

 Tibet, 73. 



Botany, 70. 



Boutigny (M.) on the cause which main- 

 tains bodies in the spheroidal state be- 

 yond the sphere of physico-chemical 

 activity, 44. 



Bowerbank (J. S.) on the probable di- 

 mensions of the great shark (Carcharias 

 megalodon) of the red crag, 54 ; on the 

 pterodactyles of the chalk formation, 

 55 j on the remains of a gigantic bird 

 from the liOndon clay of Sheppey, 55. 



Brahui, on the ethnological position of 



, the, 89. 



Brent(J. B.), a comparison of athletic men 

 of Great I3ritain with Greek statues, 84. 



Britain, on the ethnology and archajology 

 of the Norse and Saxons, in reference 

 to, 90. 



Brooke (Charles) on a new arrangement 

 for facilitating the dissection and draw- 

 ing of objects placed under the micro- 

 scope, 7 ; on a new mode of illuminating 

 opake objects under the highest powers 

 of the microscope, ib. 



Brooke (Sir J.) on the geography of the 

 northern portion of Borneo, 89. 



Broome (C. E.) on some facts tending to 

 show the probability of the conversion 

 of Asci into spores in certain fungi, 70. 



Brorsen, on the comet of short period dis- 

 covered by, and its reappearance in 

 1851, 23. 



Brougham's (Lord) experiments on light, 

 &c., in Philos. Trans. 1850, pt. 1, re- 

 marks on, by Rev. Prof. Powell, 11. 



Budge (R.), letter to Mr. \V. Bollaert on 

 the great earthquake expeiuenced in 

 Chile, April 2, 1851, 85. 



Buist (Dr.) on the climate of western In- 

 dia, 29 ; on hail-storms in India, from 

 June 1850 to May 1851, 31 ; on the 

 meteorology of Futtcginh, 40; on in- 

 dications of upheavals and depressions 

 of the land in India, 55. 



Busk ( Mr.) on new speciesof zoophytes, 76. 



Calico, on a new method of contracting 

 the fibres of, and obtaining on it pre- 

 pared colours of much brilliancy, 51. 



Calorific efficiencies of coals, on some 



