

INDEX TO VOLUME XLVII 



A. 



Aborigines of America, distinctive charac- 

 teristics of, 408. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, formation of, 6. 



museum and library of, 17. 



Actonian prize essay, Fownes's, noticed, 

 413. 



Alger's Phillips' Mineralogy, reviewed, 333. 



American Geologists and Naturalists, Asso- 

 ciation of, proceedings of fifth session, 94. 



Prof. H. D. Rogers's address be- 

 fore, 137, 247. 



Ammonia, formation of, 193. 



salts of, their action upon sul- 

 phate of lead, 81. 



Anatase, analysis and figure of, 215. 



Angelicic acid, discovery of, 196. 



Anthracite and plumbago near Worcester, 



Mass., 214. 

 Appalachian basin, geological nomenclature 



of its strata, 154. 



Astronomical operations at Pulkova observa- 

 tory, 88. 



Atmosphere, ancient, constitution of, 105. 



Atomic weights of simple bodies, 187. 



Bailey, J. W., notice of Ehrenberg's re- 

 searches on microscopic life, 208. 



JBalmain, M., on combinations analogous to 

 cyanogen, 192. 



Baltic, fall of water in, 184. 



Beamish, L., on the fall of water in the Bal- 

 tic and elevation of the Scandinavian 



coast, 184. 

 Beaumontite, analysis of, 216. 



characters of, 337. 

 Beck, Dr., note on Graptolites, 372. 



L. C, Manual of Chemistry noticed, 



414. 



Berzelius' annual report for 1843, on the 

 progress of chemistry, extracts from, 187. 



Berzelius, festival in honor of, 218. 



Bibliographical notices, 198, 408. 



Biography of William Maclure, 1. 



Birds, coprolites of, 308. 



of Crete, Corfu, and the Ionian isl- 

 ands, 186. 



Birds' nests, enormous, on the coast of New 



Holland, 217. 

 Bleaching of oils, 196. 

 Bones, fluorine in, 419. 



fossil, 116. 



composition of, 131. 

 Borate of lime, hydrous, analysis of, 215. 

 Boston Society of Natural History, Journal 



of, noticed, 411. . I 



Brachiopoda, cause of their various size and 



form, 109. 

 British Association, proceedings of, 182. 



Vol. xlvii, No. 2.— July-Sept. 1844. 





C. 



Calcium, atomic weight of, 189. 



Calculus, gouty, analysis of, 197. 



Calomel, pulverization of, 193. 



Calvert, M., on the preparation of quinine, 

 196. 



Caoutchouc, how impermeable to gas, 194. 



Carnegie, Capt., on the earthquake of Anti- 

 gua and Guadaloupe, Feb. 8th, 1843, 182. 



Carpinchoe, skull of, 418. 



Cerium, atomic weight of, 190. 



Chemical equivalents whole numbers, 105. 



Chlorine, atomic weight of, 188. 



solubility of in water, 191. 



Cinchovatine, a new vegetable base, 196. 



Clerke, S., observations on volcanoes, 182. 



Climate of the United States, &c, 18, 221. 



Coal, evaporative power and other proper- 

 ties of, 126. 



Cobalt, oxide of, 131. 



Coffin, J. H., on the moon's mean motion, 



324. 

 Comet, new, discovery of, 419. 

 Cook, Capt., account of a bird's nest in New 



Holland, 218. 

 Copper, determination of in a solution of a 

 binoxide salt, 193. 



native, found in Whately, Mass., 322. 

 Coprolites of birds, 308. 



analysis of, 310. 

 Corals, composition of, 135. 



influence of temperature on their 

 distribution, 123. 

 Couthouy, J. P., acknowledgment relative 

 to the charge of plagiarism by Ml. Dana, 



122. 



on the influence of temper- 

 ature on the development of corals, 123. 



Crania ^Egyptiaca, Morton's, 203. 



Cretaceous strata of New Jersey, 213. 



Currents of the sea, causes and effects of, 



I 161. 



Cyanogen, combinations analogous to, 192. 



D. 



Damour, M., analysis of anatase, 215. 

 Dana, J. D., on the composition of corals, 



&c, 135. 



withdrawal of the charge of pla- 

 giarism against Mr. Couthouy, 122. 

 Deane, J., on the discovery of fossil foot- 

 marks, 381. 



rejoinder of Prof. Hitchcock to, 390. 



surrejoinder to Prof. Hitchcock, 399. 

 De Candolle's Prodromus, notice of the 



eighth volume, I9& 

 Delesse, A., analysis of Beaumontite, 216. 



of Sismondine, 217. 



characters and analysis of Di- 

 pyre, 417. 

 Dioptase, analysis of, 216. 



Dip of the magnetic needle, 84. 



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