INDEX. 
Edinburgh Royal Society, 308 
Electricity, 283, 387 
Electricity. Singer’s work on, 57, 135 
Electric columns. On, 265 
Electrical alarum, $45 
~ Elgin marbles, Parliamentary report 
on, 267 
Euphony cured by electricity, 387 
Zvans (Dr.) on Wollaston’s fine platina 
wire, 120 
Evans (John), on aérial navigation,429 
£—=s on cosmogony of Moses, 9, 
179, 346 
Expedition to Africa, 71 
Extracts. On aqueous, 155 
Farey on basaltic strata, 355; on vulgar 
fractions, 885 
Fat. On, : 393 
Forsteh on electric column, 265 
forster’s thunder alarum, 345 
Forster’s meteorological nomenclature, 
45, 107 
French Society of Arts, 213, 227 
Fulminating gold, 176 
Fulminating platina, 897 
Geiilen on glass-making, 879 
Geological queries, 12; answer to, 100 
Geological Society, 210, 305 
Geology, 41,131 
Giants Causeway, Strontian found in, 
43, 130 
Glass. On making, $79 
Glaxier’s diamond. Wollaston on, 387 
Groined arches. On, 164 
Heaton colliery. Sequel to catastrophe 
at, 170 
Helvetic Society, 71 
Henry, Mr., of Manchester, Death of, 
469 
Herculanean MSS. 157 
Home on _lacertz, 152; on the effects 
of medicines, 304; on tadpoles, $89 
Horn on cosmogony, 241, 339 
Hose for fire-engines. New, 75 
Howldy on electrical phenomena, 283 
Hume on emetic tartar, 264 
Humboldt, Count, on the laws of vege- 
table forms, 446 
Hydrometer. London’s, 329 
Jce found below water, 389 
Indigogene. On, 413 
Ink, writing. On, 155 
Insanity, Essays on, 453 
Institute, Royal,tof France, proceedings 
of, 45 Gm 45 
Jvory on capillary attraction, 
209 
Kirwanian Society, 152 
Lacerte, Home on, 152 
Laplace on barometer, 102; on tides, 
118; on figure of the earth, 309 
475 
Laument onagates,173; on aérolites, 174 
Learned Societies, 67, 150, 208, 304, 387, 
456 
Lectures, 77, 159, 316, 397 
Lee on refraction, 36 
Ligneous matter in roots and fruits, $71 
Linnean Society, 458 
Linear measures. Instrument for com- 
paring, 125 
Lives. On valuing, with tables, 3 
London’s hydrometer, $29 
Mackerel., On curing, 329 
Matambo bark, Analysis of, 981 
Mathematical certainty. On, 131 
Meusures, linear. Instrument for com- 
Paring, 125 
Menagerie at Scheenbrunn, 249 
Mercury of barometer tube, capillary ac- 
tion on, 102 
Metallic salts. On, 33,175, 853 
Meteoric iron, 174, 388 
Meteoric stones, 174, 349 
Meteorology, 45, 46,158, 160, 168, 182, 
235, 317, 397, 434 
Methuon on crystallization, 505 
Mica fit for ship lanterns, 133 
Micrometer telescopes. On, 14 
Mineralogy, 109 
Moses, On cosmogony of, 9, 110, 179, 
241, 258, 339, 346 
Mungo Park, 395 
Murray (J.) on radiant heat; Walker’s 
theory, and Davy’s lamp, 247, 4109 
on indigogene, 413 
Narcotics, On poison of, 226 
New Books, 50, 135, 208, 292, 386, 453 
New South Wales. Topography of, 218 
Nomenclature. Meteorological, 45, 107; 
mineralogical, 109 
Opium exercises an actions uigeneris, 226 
Ordnance maps, 586 
Ocfila on opium and narcotics, 226 
Painting aud sculpture. Parallel be- 
tween, 86 
Parkes’s Chemical Essays, 292 
Parliamentary Report on the Elgin mar- 
bles, 267 
Patents, 77, 159, 233, 316, 471 
Peile on Davy’s safe lamp, 313 
Pendulum, seconds, length of, $10 
Petit ondispersive powers of liquids, 37 
Phillip (Dr.) on sanguiferous and ner- 
vous systems, 150 
Phosphate uf alumine. On, 230 
Phygalian martles. On the, 262 
Pil-coal. On formation of, 288 
Poison of narcotics. On, 226 
Potatoes. On preserving, 288 
Prevost’s theory of radiant heat defended, 
247 
