INDEX. 



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Alumina, the Acetates and other 

 Compounds of, 298 



Anderson, Dr. T., on the Natro- 

 Boro-Calcite, or 'Tiza' of Iquique, 293 



Arnott, Dr. Walker, on Piassava, 

 or Piafaba 6 



Notice regarding the Mea- 

 surement of Heights by means of 

 the Boiling Point of Water, 8 



on the Species of Salra- 



dora, 155 



Arsenic, on Reinsch's Process for 

 Detecting, 77 



Atmosphere, 1 



Beta-orcine, 33 



Botanical Excursions, 51 



Botanical Section, Reports from, 50, 132 



Brown, Mr. G. W., on the Estima- 

 tion of the Value of Black Oxide 

 of Manganese 185 



Cliemical Examination of 



Drift Weed Kelp 208 



Bryce, Mr. J., Jun., on the Struc- 

 ture of StafTa and the Giant's 

 Causeway, 19 



on the Altered Dolomites 



of Bute 20 



on the Parallel Roads of 



Lochaber, 99 



on the Geological Struc- 

 ture of Hoseneath 113 



Buchan, Geology of, 33 



Cameron, Mr. P., on the Force of 

 Vapour from Saline Water, 246 



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Chloropicrine, 32 



Chromic Acid, on Two New Salts of, 7 



Coins, Spurious, 344 



Copper Sheathing, 161 



Cotton, a Peculiar Fibre of, Inca- 

 pable of being Dyed, 61 



Crum, Mr. Walter, on a Peculiar 

 Fibre of Cotton Incapable of 



being Dyed, 61 



Life of Dr. Thomas Thom- 

 son, 250 



on the Acetates and other 



Compounds of Alumina, 298 



Currie, Mr. John W. , Composition 

 cf some Fermented Liquors, 1 09 



Damp Walls 333 



Dead Sea, Examination of the Wa- 

 ters of, 242 



Dolomites of Bute, 20 



Duncan, Mr. A., Jun., on Two New 

 Salts of Chromic Acid, 7 



Electric Light, 22 



Electric Telegraph, on the, 112 



Electricity, Magnetism, and Galva- 

 nism, on the Mechanical Values 



of Distributions of, 281 



Electric Current, on Transient 285 



Energy, the General Law of tlic 



Transformation of, 276 



Energetics, Outlines of the Science 



of, 381 



Erythro-mannite, 33 



Evaporation of Water in Copper, 

 Lead, and Iron Vessels 291 



