410 Index. 



Cofferdam, portable, for the use of harbours and othermarine works, 



described, 140. 

 Connell, Professor, on carbonate of copper and zinc from Matlock, 



36. 

 Copper mines of Burra-Burra, in Australia, noticed, 180. 

 Cotton, cultivation of, in India, 193. 

 Crystallised bodies, their structure considered by M. Baudrimont, 



186. 

 Currents, on their transporting power, 189. 

 D'Aubuisson, Engineer-in-Chief, &c., his biography, by M. Bouche- 



porn, 1, 205. 

 Davy, Dr John. Observations on the urinary excrement of insects, 



17 — On carbonic acid as a solvent in the process of vegetation, 



61 — On Centipede and Helix oblonga, 383. 

 Diamond, on its oxydation in the liquid way, 388. 

 Diluvial or quaternary formation, observations on, by M. D'Archiac, 



176. 

 Earth, source of motions upon the, by Dr E. E. Brown, 148, 302. 

 Ebelmen, M., on artificial hyalite and hydrophane, 187. 

 Ebony, remarks on, 190. 

 Equus Hemionus, notice of, 194. 

 Ethnological Society of London, anniversary address to, for year 



1848, delivered by Dr Prichard, 336. 

 Fauna of Sweden, changes in, 400. 

 Favre, A., Professor of Geology in the Academy of Geneva, his geo- 



loo-ical researches in the neighbourhood of Chamounix, 69. 

 Fleming, Dr J., geological notices by, 171. 

 Forbes, Professor Edward, on the distribution of the genera of 



plants and animals, 175 — On fossil British Asteriadse, 379. 

 Forbes, Professor J. D., on the volcanoes of the Vivarais, 170. 

 Forests, preservation of, in the north-west provinces of India, 190. 

 Fyfe, Dr A., on the comparative value of different kinds of coal for 



the purpose of illumination, 37, 267. 

 Glacial Theory not abandoned by Professor Agassiz, 396. 

 Glaciers of Iceland described by Sartorius von Waltershausen, 136 



— Glacier striae, account of, 130. 

 Geographical distribution of Animals, by Professor Adams, 197. 

 Geology of the late Voyages of Discovery and Survey, 317. 

 Guyot, M. A., on the erratic blocks of the basin of the Rhine, 20. 



