Index. 443 



Man, natural history of, considered, by M. Flourens, 351. 



Mechanics, illustrations of, by the Rev. H. Mosley, F. R. S., noticed, 

 215. 



Microscope, reflecting, observations on, by Dr Goring, 31. 



Milk of cows, observations on, 111. 



Milne, David, Esq., F. R. S. E., notice regarding the drying up of the 

 rivers Teviot, Clyde, and Nith, and their tributaries, on the 29th 

 November 1838, 200. 



on two storms which passed over the British Islands in the end 



of November 1838, 203. 



his memoir on the Mid-Lothian and East^Lothian coal-fields, 



noticed, 434. 



Mineralogical nature of terrestrial, fluviatile, and marine-shells, con- 

 sidered by M. L. A. Necker, l60. 



Mosley, H., F. R. S., his illustrations of mechanics noticed, 215. 



Muirhead, James P. Esq., his notes to Arago's Life of Watt, 310. 



Nasmyth, Alexander, F. L. S., &c., his researches on the teeth, 433. 



Necker, M. L. A., on the mineralogical nature of terrestrial, fluviatile, 

 and marine shells, l60. 



Newbigging, P. S. K., M.D. on certain circumstances affecting the co- 

 lour of blood during coagulation, 202, 358. 



Nicol, William, F.R.S. notice concerning an improvement in the con- 

 struction of the single vision prism of calcareous spai', 332. 



Oerstedt, Hans Christian, Professor, on water-spouts, 52. 



Palaeontology, observations on, by Professor Whewell, 179- 



Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, account of, 395. 



Patents, list of, granted for Scotland, from 18th March to 18th June 

 1839, 217 ; from 25th June to 17th September 1839. 



Paterson, Robert, M.D., M.W.S., experiments and observations on the 

 temperature of artesian springs or wells, in Mid-Lothian, Stirling- 

 shire, and Clackmannanshire, 71. 



Photography, observations on, by Dr Fyfe, 144. 



observations on, by Sir John Hobison, 155. 



Photographic drawing, by Mungo Ponton, Esq. F.R.S.E., l69. 



Posstum, the temples of, notice regarding, 212. 



Plants, on the respiration of, by Messrs Edwards and Colin, 12(). 



Ponton, Mungo, Esq. F.R.S.E., his notice of a cheap and simple method 

 of preparing paper for photographic drawing, in which the use of 

 any salt of silver is dispensed with, lC9. 



Publications, new, noticed, 214, 230. 



