412 Index. 



Proceedings of Societies, viz., Royal Society of Edinburgh from De- 

 cember 1847 to March 1848, 169 — Of Wernerian Natural 

 History Society, 174 — Of the Geological Society of France, 

 155, 311— Of the Geological Society of Ireland, 312. 



Publications, new, noticed, 199, 408. 



Rain, its depth in some localities at different altitudes in Lanca- 

 shire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire, 392, 



Reptilian remains in the coal-formations, 185. 



Rogers, Professors W. B. and R. E., on the decomposition and 

 partial solution of minerals, rocks, &c., by pure water, and 

 water charged with carbonic acid, 163 — On the oxydation of 

 the Diamond in the liquid way, 388. 



Salt, common, its amount in all the oceans, 398. 



Sand-banks of Mount's Bay, on their rapid diminution, 113. 



Sea, its temperature at Spitzbergen, 178. 



Silicification of plants and animals, observations on, 185. 



Stevenson, Thomas, Esq., F.R.S.E., C. E., his account of a portable 

 cofferdam for the use of harbour and other marine works, 140. 



Talus slopes, 398. 



Tea, plantation of, in India, by William Jameson, Esq., 191. 



Thomson, James, jun., M.A., Glasgow College, on the parallel 

 roads of Lochaber, 49 — his Letter in regard to the parallel 

 roads of Lochaber, 404. 



Volcanoes of Central France not in a state of activity in the time 

 of Julius Csesar, 119. 



Waltershausen W. S., his general view of the formation of Iceland, 

 102 — And observations on the glaciers and climate of Iceland, 

 129, 281. 



Whitehaven, its meteorology considered, 374. 



Whirlwinds at St Just, in Cornwall, 111. 



Zodaical Light, observations onj^^bjr^TlJfli^^r C. P. Smyth, 173. 



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