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INDEX. 



Alphabets, on, for the use of the blind, 225. 



Amber, remarks on the origin of, 172. 



Anderson, Reverend John, on the organic remains found in the 

 old red sandstone of Fife, 137. 



Animal, quadrumanous, account of the skull of a, found in the ter- 

 tiary rocks of the sub-Himalayan hills near the Sutlej, 216. 



Arago, M. his considerations concerning the manner in which was 

 formed in the Mediterranean, in July 1831, the new island 

 which has successively been called Ferdinandia, Hotham, 

 Graham, Nerita, and Julia, 204. 



Arts, useful, on the state of the, 262. 



proceedings of the Society of, for Scotland, 417. 



Atken, George, Esq. his thermometric and barometric tables, &c. 

 281. 



Babbage, Charles, Esq. on the account of the Creation in the first 

 chapter of Genesis, 153. 



Barry, Dr Martin, his translation of Alexander von Humboldt's 

 two attempts to ascend Chimborazo, 291. 



Beaches, on the elevation of, by tides, 166. 



Beings, organized, on the unity of function in, 92. 



Beck, A. Van, his remarks on Dr Davy's paper on the supposed 

 property of tin of preserving iron from corrosion in sea- 

 water, 46. 



Becquerel, M., on the relation of natural philosophy with chemistry 

 and the natural sciences, 303. 



Biot, M. on the stony matters which are employed in China in the 

 time of famine, under the name of Flour of Stone, 208. 



Bischoff, Professor, on hot and thermal springs, &c. 330. 



Bison, on the occurrence of the European, in the Caucasus, 408. 



Blainville, M. de, upon the affinity which the fluids of living or- 

 ganized structures have for matter, 412. 



Bouc'', Dr, on the geology of Turkey, 34. 



