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INDEX I. 



Coblentz, on a meteor seen near, 9-1 ■ 

 Compass needle, on the deviations of the, 

 in iron and other vessels occasioned by 

 inductive or polar magnetism, 143. 

 Conch (Jonathan), list of Pisces as typical 

 objects for local museums, 113. 



Darwin (C), list of Cirripedia as objects 



for local museums, 121. 

 Daubeny (Dr.), fifteenth report on the 



growth and vitality of seeds, 78. 

 Dobson (Thomas) on the relation between 



explosions in coal-mines and revolving 



storms, 1. 



Edriophthalma, on the British, 18. 

 Entomostraca, list of, as typical objects 

 for local museums, 120. 



Fairbairn (William), report on metals for 

 ordnance, 100 ; on the strength of 

 boiler plates, 143; on boiler explo- 

 sions, ib. 



Fire-ball seen at Langley, by Mr. Ansell, 

 on a, 92. 



Gedling, near Nottingham, on two me- 

 teors seen at, 99- 



Gladstone (J. H.) on the influence of the 

 solar radiations on the vital powers of 

 plants growing under different atmo- 

 spheric conditions. Part III., 15. 



Grantham (John) on the deviations of 

 the compass needle in iron and other 

 vessels occasioned by inductive or 

 polar magnetism, 143. 



Henderson (A.) on life-boats, 143. 



Henslow (Prof.), fifteenth report on the 

 growth and vitality of seeds, 78 ; first 

 report on a typical series of objects in 

 natural history adapted to local mu- 

 seums, 108 ; list of objects for a tj^iical 

 herbarium for local museums, 124. 



Herbarium, list of objects for a typical, 

 for local museums, 124. 



Huxley (Prof.) on a scheme to exhibit 

 the equivalent classes and subclasses 

 of the animal kingdom, 126. 



India, account of a meteor accompanying 

 a thunder-storm and earthquake in, 

 96. 



Iron and other vessels, on the deviations 

 of the compass needle in, occasioned 

 by inductive or polar magnetism, 143. 



Life-boats, on, 143. 



Lindley (Prof), fifteenth report on the 

 growth and vitality of seeds, 78. 



Liverpool obsen'atory, an account of the 

 self-registering anemometer and rain- 

 gauge at, 127. 



Lowe (E. J.), luminous meteors observed 

 by, in 1854 — 1855, 80; on meteors seen 

 from the observatory at Beeston, 99. 



Magnetism, on the deviations of the com- 

 pass needle in iron and other vessels, 

 occasioned by inductive or polar, 143. 



Meade (R. H.), list of Arachnida as ty- 

 pical objects for local museums, 118. 



Mersey, on the changes which have taken 

 place in the channels of the, during the 

 last fifty years, 143. 



Metals for ordnance, report on, 100. 



Meteors: — observations of luminous, 79; 

 observed by J. Watson, 93 ; seen near 

 Coblentz, 94 ; observed at Cambridge, 

 U.S., 95 ; accompanying a thunder- 

 storm and earthquake in India, 96; 

 on two seen at Gedling, 99 ; seen from 

 the observatory at Beeston, ib. 



Mineral kingdom, list of typical objects 

 in the, for local museums, 125. 



Mollusca, list of, as typical objects for 

 local museums, 114, 117- 



Museums, local, on atypical series of ob- 

 jects in natural history, adapted to, 

 108. 



Nasmyth (James), report on metals for 



ordnance, 100. 

 Natural history, on a typical series of 



objects in, adapted to local museums, 



108. 

 Neilson (J. Beaumont), report on metals 



for ordnance, 100. 



Ordnance, report on metals for, 100. 



Osier (A. Follett), an account of the self- 

 registering anemometer andrain-gauge, 

 erected at Liverpool observatory in the 

 autumn of 1851, with a summary of 

 the records for 1852-J855, 127. 



Pisces, list of, as typical objects for local 

 museums, 113. 



Plants, on the influence of the solar ra- 

 diations on the vital powers of, growing 

 under different atmospheric conditions, 

 15. 



Podophthalma, list of, as typical objects 

 for local museums, 119. 



Polypes, drawings of, taken by the Bel- 

 fast dredging committee, 143. 



Powell (Rev. Baden), report on observa- 

 tions of luminous meteors, 1854, 1855, 

 79. 



Pumps, on centrifugal, 143. 



