404 INDEX. 



/ftrcic acid, comparative examination of 112-113 



Home, (Sir Everard,) lectures on comparative anatomy, analysis 

 of, 134. Plan of the work, with extracts and remarks, 134- 

 138. His discovery of the human ovum, 321-323. And of the 

 breeding of marsupial and of cold-blooded animals, 323, 324. 

 Remarks on, and outline of, his synopsis of the system of the 

 animal kingdom, proposed from his modification of ovum, 324- 

 326. On the difference of structure between the human mem- 

 branum tympani, and that of the elephant, 327, 328. On the 

 double organs of generation of the lamprey, 332 



Hornstone, extraordinary formation of the 178 



Hydriodic acid, a test for platinnm in solution, 156 



Iceland, notice of volcanic eruptions in, 396 



Inflammability of ammoniacal gas, 165, 166 



Inflammation of gunpowder, by slacking lime, 163 



Intellige?ice, see Miscellaneous Intelligence 



Inverse Series, extension of, for the computation of refraction, to- 

 gether with a direct solution of the problem, 139-148 



Iodine, presence of, in the waters of Sales, 168. 



Iron, alloys of zinc with, 383 



Iron Wire, experiment on the tenacity of, 367, 368, Account of 

 the suspension bridge of iron wire, at Geneva, 369, 370 



James's powders, composition of, 167 



January, 1824, astronomical phenomena for, 289-291 



Jassaert, (M.,) notice of a quadruple salt discovered by, 384,385 



Jumotri, notice of the hot-springs of, 183, 184 



Kotzebue, (Captain,) voyage of circumnavigation by, announced, 



396 

 Kupferschaum, analysis of, 277 



Laboratories at Apothecaries' Flail described, 199-202 



Lamarck's genera of shells, translated, 49-7/, 241-258. Remarks 

 on his system, 258, 259. Explanation of the plates illustrating 

 the genera of shells, 260-264 



Lambton, (Lieut. Col.,) corrections by, applied to the great merio- 

 dinal arc, to reduce it to the parliamentary standard, 328 



Lassaignc, (M.,) on the purpuric acid, 104. On the existence of 

 carbonate of magnesia in the urinary calculi of herbivorous ani- 

 mals, 109- On the compounds of cystic oxide, 176,177 



Latour, (M. de,) on the effects obtamed from the simultaneous ap- 

 plication of heat and compression t» certain liquids, 98-100. 

 Experiments of, with certain substances under high pressures, 

 156,157 



Lava of Vesuvius, examination of, 180, 181 



Lead, action of gunpowder on, 163. Pyrophorus, obtained from 



