INDEX. 



Agassiz, Professor, on hybernation, 134 — On echinoderms, 135 — 

 Zoological researches, 316. 



Alps of Savoy and Western Swiss Alps, their formation, by Professor 

 Favre, 101. 



Arabian Frontier of Egypt, its physical geography illustrated, by 

 Miss Fanny Corbaux, communicated by the Authoress, 13, 

 209. 



Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, at Boston, Sep- 

 tember 27, 1847, 131. 



Aurora Borealis, their height considei-ed, by G. A. Rowell, 79. — 

 On the Aurora Borealis, by G. A. Rowell, 89. 



Balfour, Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, his 



notice of some rare plants which have flowered in the Edinburgh 



Royal Botanic Garden, communicated by the Author, 200, 378. 

 Blood, human, metals in, by M. Millon, 309. 

 Birds, voices of, considered, 388. 

 Birds, fossil remains of, in New Zealand, 395. 

 Bohemian Silurian Rocks, remarks on, by Sir Rodei*ick I. Murchi- 



son, 66. 

 Brongniart, Alexander, biographical sketch of, 92 — On the changes 



of the vegetable kingdom in the different geological epochs, 97. 

 Browne of Philadelphia, on animal torpidity, 132, 

 Bruner, K. B., on Scandinavia, 297. 



Brussels lace, diseases arising during its manufacture. No. 87, p. iv. 

 Bubis or Edeeyah of Fernando Po, described by DrR. H. Thomson, 



232. 

 Buchanan, George, civil engineer, F.R.S.E., President of the Royal 



Scottish Society of Arts, on the use of the marine hydrometer, 



307. 



Cafi'ers, described, 386. 



Cantor, Theodore, M.D., on the distribution of reptiles in the Ma- 

 layan Peninsula and Islands, and other localities, 271. 



