Index. 391 



Instructions for collecting and preserving invertebrate animals, by 

 R. Owen, F.R.S., Hunterian Professor to the Royal College 

 of Surgeons of England, 280. 



Jussieu, Adrien, his Elements of Botany, translated by J. H. Wilson, 

 F.L.S., noticed, 199. 



Kosmos noticed, 199. 



Languages of Abessinia, their distribution, by T. Beke, Esq., Ph. D., 

 F.S.A., &c., 265. 



Latham, R. G., M.D., remarks upon the general principles of philo- 

 logical classification, and the value of groupes, with particular 

 reference to the languages of the Indo-European class, 293. 



Manna, a new species of, from New South Wales, analysed by 

 Thomas Anderson, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c., 132. 



Mediterranean, water of, analysed, 191. 



Meteorology, Introduction to, by D. P. Thomson, M.D., noticed, 

 199. 



Minerals, the following noticed, viz., Randanite, 379 — Lardite, 379 

 — Neolite, 379— Vblknerite, 379— Pyrophyllite, 380— Talc 

 of Rhode Island and Steatite of Hungary, 380 — New hydro- 

 silicate of alumina, 380 — Philippsite and Gismondine, 380 — 

 Heulandite,380 — Osmelite andPectolite, 380 — Disterrite from 

 Fassa, 380 — Glaucophane, 380. 



Morton, Dr S. G., his account of a craniological collection, with re- 

 marks on the classification of some families of the human race, 

 144. 



Nicol, James, F.R.S.E., his Mineralogy noticed, 200. 

 Nutmegs, statistics of, 139. 



Oceanic infusoria, living and fossil, 158, 261. 



Orbigny, Alcide de, on living and fossil molluscs, 57. 



Oyster, the sexes of, 196. — The geographical distribution and uses 



of the common oyster, 239. 

 Owen, Professor Richard, on preserving invertebrate animals, 280. 



Patents granted for Scotland from 22d March to 22d June 1849, 



201 — from 22d June to 22d September, 385. 

 Phosphate of lime in the mineral kingdom, 130. 



