414. INDEX. 



Craigie, Dr, history of comparative anatomy, 42, 355 

 Cuvier, his account of Werner, 247 



Datolite, notice of, 388 



Deshayes, his obserFations on tertiary formations, 389 



Dial, wooden, used in the Alps, described, 281 



Dodo, an extinct bird, notice of, 395 



Don, David, on the characters and affinities of certain genera, chiefly 



belonging to the Flora Peruviana, 271 

 Drummond, Dr, of Belfast, his first Steps to Botany, noticed, 406 



Earthquake of 1827, vast extent of, S92 



Ehrenberg, Professor, his observations on the Infusoria, 201 



Elephant, American, notice of, 353 



Eraser, William, on assurance systems, 118 

 Footmarks, notice of, in man and lower animals, 396 

 Forest, submarine, notice of, near Cullen, 393 

 Formations, universality of, considered, 390 , 



Galbraith, William, on the magnetic properties of the rock on the sum- 

 mit of Arthur Seat, 285 — on barometrical measurements, 316 

 Gairdner, Meredith, his analysis of Ehrenberg's discoveries on the In- 

 fusoria, 201 

 Geology, progress of, 242 



manual of, by De la Beeche, noticed, 408 



Glaciers, account of, by Hugi, 74 



Graham, Dr, on new and rare plants in the Edinburgh Royal Botanic 



Garden, 186, 376 

 account of rare plants collected during an excursion in 



the Highlands, 373 

 Gray's Synopsis Reptilium, noticed, 402 



Hardy, James, on the geology of Me y war, 321 



Harris, on lightning conducting rods, 155, 304 



Horse, American, notice of it, 354 



Hotham Island, volcano of, described, 365 



Hugi, observations on glaciers, 74 



Human body found in u peat-bog, account of, 116 



Humboldt, Baron Alexander, on central Asia, 227 



Hutton according to Playfair, 257 ; and MacCulloch, 263 



