402 Index. 



Christison, Dr, on the Assam and Chinese tea-plants, 176 — on the 



action of water on lead, 163. 

 Climate of Malta, 382. 



Columbus, his visit to Iceland in the year 1477, 391, 

 Comet, great, notice of, 393. 



Coral islands, account of, by Messrs Darwin and Maclaren, 33, 47. 

 Craigie, William, meteorological register in Canada, 373. 



Daubeny, Professor, his biography of Decandolle, 197. 



Davy, Dr John, on the property of transmitting light possessed by 



charcoal and plumbago, 378 ; and on the climate of Malta, 382. 

 Dead Sea, its depression below the level of the Mediterranean, 178. 

 Decandolle, Professor, his biography, 197. 

 Diamond, on the residuum of its combustion, 187 — on its formation, 



317- 

 Diorama, a portable one, described by George Tait, Esq., 276. 

 Doyere, M., his experiments on the revivification of animals of the 



types Tardigrada and Rotifera, 25. 



Earthquakes, notices of, especially as they occur in Scotland, by 

 David Milne, Esq., F.R.S.E., 85 — earthquakes in British In- 

 dia, by Lieut. R. B. Smith, Bengal Engineers, 107. 



Ehrenberg, Professor, on the fossils of the chalk-formation, 256. 



Elaps Jamesoni, a new species of serpent, described by Dr Traill, 

 53. 



Ethnological Society of London, its formation, 392. 



Euclase, its discovei-y in Connecticut, North America, 183. 



Explosion, great, at Dover, described, 337. 



Fahlerz containing mercury, from Hungary, 388. 



Farquharson, Dr, his meteorological table for 1842, 159. 



Fleming, John, D.D., Professor of Natural Philosophy, King's Col- 

 lege, Aberdeen, on the expediency of forming harbours of re- 

 fuge on the east coast of Scotland, between the Moray Firth 

 and the Firth of Forth, 306. 



Flint, contains potash and lime, 180. 



Flowers, on the preservation of, 191. 



Forbes, Professor, his fourth letter to Professor Jameson on the 

 glacier theory, 1. 



historical remarks on the first discovery of the real 



structure of glaciers, 133. 



