INDEX II. 



221 



Colours, on the binocular vision of sur- 

 faces of different, 9. 



Comatula rosacea, on the occurrence of 

 the pentacrinoid larva of, in Lamlash 

 Bay, Isle of Arran, 107. 



Compass, on the deviations of the, in 

 iron ships, and the means of adjusting 

 them, 10; on the means of investi- 

 gating the laws which govern the de- 

 viation of the, 22 ; on a, independent 

 of local attraction, 207. 



Connell (Prof), improvements on a dew- 

 point hygrometer, 38. 



Constantinople and Broussa, on a recent 

 geological survey of the region between, 

 in search of coal, 94. 



Consumption, tubercular, on the origin 

 of, 131. 



Copper, on the action of sulphuretted 

 hydrogen on salt of, 51. 



Coregoni of Scotland, on the. 111. 



Craig telescope at Wandsworth, photo- 

 graph of the, exhibited, 12. 



Crania, on Celtic, Sclavic, and Aztec, 

 145 ; on the forms of the, of the an- 

 cient Romans, 142. 



Crawfurd (John) on the different centres 

 of civilization, 141. 



Crime, on the localities of, in Suffolk, 167. 



Crimea, on the flowers and vegetation of 

 the, 106. 



Crosse (Mrs.) on the apparent mechani- 

 cal action accompanying electrical 

 transfer, 55. 



Crustacea, discovery of, in the tilestones 

 of Kington, 78 ; on new forms of, from 

 the district of Lesmahagow, 96. 



Crustacean, on a phyllopod, in the upper 

 Ludlow rock of Ludlow, 98. 



Cull (Richard), Manual of Ethnological 

 Inquiry and the Ethnology of Polynesia, 

 141 ; on some water-colour portraits of 

 natives of Van Diemen's Land, 142; 

 on the complexion and hair of the an- 

 cient Egyptians, ib. 



Currency, an analysis of some of the prin- 

 ciples which regulate the effects of a 

 convertible paper, 165 ; on the laws of 

 the, in Scotland, 166. 



Dalmatia, on the formations of, 83. 



Darien, an account of the exploration of 

 the Isthmus of, 148. 



Darling (W.) on the probable maximum 

 depth of the ocean, 81. 



Daubeny (Dr.) on an indirect method of 

 ascertaining the presence of phosphoric 

 acid in rocks, where the quantity of 

 that ingredient was too minute to be 

 determinable by direct analysis, 55 ; 



on the action of light on the germina- 

 tion of seeds, 56 ; on the influence of 

 light on the germination of plants, 

 103. 



Davis (Joseph Barnard) on the forms of 

 the crania of the ancient Romans, 142. 



Dawson (J. W.) on the fossils of the coal- 

 formation of Nova Scotia, 81 ; on the 

 species of Meriones and Arvicolse found 

 in Nova Scotia, 110. 



Deaths, on the fluctuations in the number 

 of, in the metropolis, during 1840 to 

 1854 inclusive, 167. 



Decimal arrangement of land measures, 

 on, 165. 



Decimal accounts, on, 184. 



Dempster (Mr.), model of a dredge by, 

 118. 



Denudation and other effects usually at- 

 tributed to water, on, 81. 



Deposits, on the superficial, laid open by 

 the cuttings on the Inverness and 

 Nairn railroad, 78. 



Devonians of the south of Ireland, on the 

 cleavage of the, 82. 



Diamagnetic bodies, experimental de- 

 monstration of the polarity of, 22. 



Dickie (Dr.), remarks on the effects of last 

 winter upon vegetation at Aberdeen, 

 105 ; on the homologies of Lepismidse, 

 110. 



Dingle promontory, on the geology of 

 the, 83. 



Diomedea exulans, on the peculiar de- 

 velopment of the Vermis cerebelli in 

 the, 133. 



Diophantine analysis, on the possible and 

 impossible cases of quadratic duplicate 

 equalities in the, 2. 



Disease in Ireland, results deducible from 

 the report on the statics of, 164. 



Diseases, on the application of statistics 

 to questions as to the external causes 

 of, 155. 



Dockyards, on continuous work in, 205. 



Donne, demonstration of the Trichomonas 

 vaginalis of, 125. 



Dredge, model of a, by Mr, Dempster, 

 118. 



Duncan (Dr.) on impregnation in phane- 

 rogamous plants, 106. 



Dynamometer, on the friction break, 209. 



Earths, on the metals of the alkaline, 66. 

 Edmonds (G.) on a philosophic universal 



language, 145. 

 Education, gymnastic, on the application 



of physiological principles to, 134. 

 Edwards (J. B.) on the titaniferous iron 



of the Mersey shore, 61. 



