408 INDEX. 



Raumer, his observations on Ararat, Pison, and Jerusalem, 253 

 Reid's Practical Chemistry, noticed, 198 

 Religious toleration in Russia, observations on, 190 

 Richard, C. L., biographical memoir of, 201 



Sea, phosphorescence of, in the Gulf of St Laurence, described, 388 



Seamen's health, observations on the preservation of, 216 



Serpents, on the fascination of, 165 



Silvertop, Colonel, his account of the basin of Baza in Spain, 336 



Scottish publishing Societies, 192 



Snake called Yellow-tail, described, 165 



Sounds on Peak of Teneriff, account of, 374 



South African Quarterly Journal, account of, 400 



Springs, observations on. 111, 157 



Spirit of wine, its freezing point, 184 



Spittal of Glenshee, notice of, 285 



Stark, James, on the colour of fishes, 327 



Statistical Societies of France, notice of, 157 



Stereotype printing, invention of, 193 



Stomach, best character for distinguishing animals from vegetables, 384. 



Subterranean water, burst of, 281 



Sub-tropical zone, account of, 129 



Sugar, annual quantity consumed in Britain, 191 



Teignmouth, Dawlisb, and Torquay Guide, by Turton and Kingston, 

 noticed, 198 



Temperature of plants, observations on, 140 



Thomson, Dr Allen, his investigations in regard to the vascular sys- 

 tem in the fcetns of vertebrated animals, 295 



Dr Thomas, his Outline of the sciences of Heat and Electricity, 197 



Trees, fossil, in an erect position, observations on, 378 



Water, colour of, 183 



Water, motions in, produced during the respiration of animals, account 



of, 382 

 Wells, Artesian, account of. 111, 157 

 Wernerian Society, proceedings of, 181 

 Writing ink, black, observations on, 231 



Valleys of elevation, observations on, 349 



Vertebrated animals, the foetus of, considered by Dr Allen Thom- 

 son, 295 

 Village, subterranean one in Spain, account of, 343, 349 



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