Index. 411 



Hall, Marshall, M.D., on tlie effects of certain physical and chemi- 

 cal agents on the nervous system, 252. 



Heligoland, its present and former extent, 188. 



Hooker, Dr, on the vegetation of the carboniferous period, as com- 

 pared with that of the present day, 362. 



Hopkins, W., M.A., F.K..S., on the internal pressure to which rock 

 masses may be subjected, and its possible influence in the pro- 

 duction of the laminated structure, 115. 



Iceland, general view of its mode of formation, 102 — its climate and 

 glaciers, 129, 281. 



Indus, great inundation of, 393. 



Karsten, Dr, his account of massive boracite, 181. 



Kreatine, on its preparation, and quantity of, in the flesh of differ- 

 ent animals, by Dr Gregory, 172. 



Lake Ontaino, notice of the oscillation of its waters, 107- 



Level of the Caspian and Dead Seas, 398. 



Lochaber, its parallel roads or shelves described, 49. 



Macquarie river, flood of, 395. 



Malay Peninsula, its metalliferous deposits, 332. 



Maremma in Tuscany, its coal-formation described, 369. 



Marine shells in hills of drift and boulders, 398. 



Medicines, remarks on their adulteration, 198. 



Mercury, ores of, in the coal-formation of Saarbriick, 189. 



Metalliferous repositories, their continuity in depth considered, 346. 



Miller, J. F., Esq., on the meteorology of Whitehaven, 376. 



Molluscs, sounds emitted by, 401 — their boring in i-ocks, 401. 



Nile, river, on its sources in the Mountains of the Moon, by Dr 

 Charles T. Beke, Ph. D., &c., 221. 



Number of vertebrate, molluscous, articulated, and radiated animals, 

 399. 



Ocean, its depth and saltness, 27- 



Oxydation of diamond in the liquid way, 388. 



Patents granted for Scotland from 3d April 1848 to 21st June 

 1848, 202— from 22d June to 22d September, 405. 



Prichard, James Cowles, M.D., F.R.S., Corresponding Member of 

 the Institute of France, his anniversary address for 1848, read 

 to the Ethnological Society of London, on the recent progress 

 of Ethnology, 336. 



Prizes, list of, oft'erod l>y the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 389. 



