476 



INDEX. 



Phiiips''s eiper. on warm- and cold- 

 blooded animals, 150 

 Physiolegy. Botanical> 3 ; of the braiiij 

 44 

 Piano-forte. A new, 386 

 Pilch. On, 209 

 Pit-coal. On production of, 213,269 

 Plague al Malta. On, 241 

 Plants. On nourishment of, 3 ; on 

 roots of, 177 J on embryos of seeds 

 of, 183 

 Poison by copper. Remedy for, 76 

 Prismatic colours. On, 40 1 , 4 1 0, 422 

 Prize questions, 380 

 Pvussic acid, a deadly poison, C8, 76 

 Pulse. On cause of the, 375 

 Punishments. Considerations on, 49 

 Purple, ancient. On, 41'4 

 Pyramids of Egypt. Account of, 195, 

 285 

 Rfade on the prism, 422 

 Red colour of the ancients, 352 

 Reid on rate of contiguous clocks, 176; 

 answer to, 388 

 Resin. Remarks on, 208 

 Rochon on w^armth of coloured rays,410 

 Ronalds't electric moving power ,26,466 

 Royal Med. Soc. Edin., . 154, 380 

 Royal Institution, 151,525,305, 376,471 

 Royal Society, 65, 150, 220,303, 374,469 

 Seppings on ship-building', 374 

 Serapis. The tomb of Apis, 293 

 Ship-luilding. Impr. in, 280, 374 

 Singer on electric moving power, 359 

 Shirtner on the plague at Malta, 241; 

 help for defective vision, 461 

 Smiths geolog. discoveries, 333 

 Society of Antiquaries, 220 

 SoTos. What ? 288 

 Sounds produced ly gases. On intervals 

 and beats of, 26 

 Spring. Ebbing and flowing, 66, 432 



Spurzheim's lectures on craniology, 44, 

 50, 132 

 Stanhope's (Lord) new musical strings, 

 386 

 Steam employed for evaporation, distil- 

 lation, &c. 158 

 Sleam-ioals. On, 181,471 

 Steel strings applied to piano-forte, 386 

 Storer on an ebbing and flowing spring, 

 66, 432 

 Slrontian in arragonite, 389 

 Sugar, an antidote for poison of copper, 

 76 

 Sulphurel of carbon. Optical properties 

 of, 1 19 

 Sitperfcetalion. Instance of, 375 

 Sutherland coal-pits, 314, 397, 447 

 Tannin. On, 74 

 Tar. Remarks on, 208 

 Taylor's biographical sketch of E. H. 

 Delaval, 29 

 Teneriffe. Account of, 348 

 Toad, living, found in limestone, 69 

 Travers on the eye, 65 

 Triple Prussiates. On, 375 

 Turf and peat. Exper. on, 215 

 Turpentine. Remarks on, 208 

 UranolUes. A fall of, 23, 230 

 f-'an Mons. New system of, 67 ; deto- 

 nating oil of, 76 ; notice from, S96 

 Frgetation. Phsenomena of, 321 

 Folcanoes of South America, 231 ; of 

 Albay, 391 

 Walker's (E.) outlines of chemical phi- 

 losophy, 19,424 

 Water, its oxidizing power with char- 

 coal, 23 

 Wernerian Society, 221 

 Wliiies used by the ancients, 418 

 Winch on coal and stone strata, 363 

 Wood. Products of, when distilled, COS, 

 269 



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