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INDEX tro VOL. LIII. 
A BSIMBUL. Temple of, 211 
Academy of medicine, Paris, 62 
Academy of sciences, St. Petersburg, 62 
Accum’s analysis of Thetford spring, 
359; on gas light, 453 
Acids and oxryg New combinations 
of, 21, 109, 147 
Acoustic instrument for ascertaining the 
state of the lungs, ; 464 
Africa. Interior of, 308, 381 
Agery beads af Africa. On, 445 
Algebraic products. Oncertain, 412 
Alkalis and their bases, Prize questions 
on, 62 
Amianthus found on Staten Island , 306 
Ammontiacal liquor from coal, 263 
Amphibia, On urinary organs, 330 
Analysis of Thetford spring, 359; of 
wavellite, 462 
Anatomical philosophy of Geoffroy, 223 
Andro-sphynx uncovered, 256 
Animal heat. Van Mons on, 176 
Animal charcval. On, 17; a clarifier, 18 
Antiquarian researches in Egypt, 450 
Antiquities, 152, 211, 236, 253, 311,388 
Aphlogistic phenumena, 268, 358 
Apiaries destroyed by the Sphynx 
Atropos, 393; on taking honey from, 
394 
Arctic voyage, 289, 567, 386 
Arforesdon’s new alkali and metals, 67 
Ashantee. Mission to, 381 
Asiatic Society, 228 
Astronomy, 74, 212, 387 
Astronomical clock. On Pennington’s, 
426 
Arabia Petrea, antiquities in, 465 
Atholl (Duke of) on timber, 419 
Atomic philosophy. On, 133 
Atomic theory. On, 401 
Baffin’s Bay, Voyage to explore, 278, 
367, 377, 386 
Bain on variation of compass, 147 
Beads, aggry, of Africa, On, 445 
Bees, on defending, $93; on managing, 
394 
Beel-root. Paper from, 391 
Belmore’s (Lord) travels, 216 
Belzoni. Antiquarian discoveries of, 
211; researches in Egypt, 450 
Biot on figure of the earth, 292 
Bolton on coal-gas, 138 
Bombay Literary Society, 53, 183 
Books, new, 46, 140, 223, 278, 367,41 Is 
44 
Borax. 150 
Botany, 392 
Bowdich's projected new travels, 156; 
Mission to Ashantee, 381; on agery 
beads of Africa, 445 
Braconnot’s processes for gallic acid,304 
Brewster on polarized light, 55; on 
crystallized surfaces, 
Bridge of wire over Kelvin, 71 
Substitute for, 
Bruce on Persian cow-pock, 133 
Brugnaiellt. Life of, $21 
Cactus triangularis, 393 
Cadit on animal charcoal, 17 
Cadmium. On, 63 
Caledoman Horticultural Society's me- 
moirs, 384 
Calendars of Natural history, 250 
Caloric. Ure on, 38,87, 182 
Calorific rad:ntion. Meikle on, 260, 301 
Capaaty. On doctrine of, 182 
Carbonate of magnesia, native, 306 
Cartwright on new way of employinga 
man’s power, 425 
Caviglia’s discoveries in Egypt, 253 
Ceres, ascension and declination of, 74 
Chalyleate spring at Thetford, 359 
Charcoal, anime!, On, 17 
Chimneys. Report of Board of Works 
on sweeping, 104 
Chlorine. Water not produced in de= 
composing, J $20 
City, axcient, discovered, 386 
Clarification. On, 28 
Clarke’s treatise on gas blow-pipe, 55 
Clock, On Pennington’s astronomical, 
426 
Coath. A safe one, 150 
Coal-gas. Bolton on, 138; Lowe on, 
- 263 
Coal gas, Accum on, 453; Peckston 
on, 456 
Colours from distillation of coal, 265 
Comets, new, 74, 500, 314 
Compass, mariner’s. The insulated, 364 
Compass, storm, 468 
Copper. Exper, on strength of, 166 
Cork Society, 61 
Cork Institution, 460 
Corn fir seed. Exper. on, 70 
Corpora lutea. Home on, 146 
Cow-pock found in Persia, 133 
Creighton on force of steam, 266 
Cycas circinalis, Sold in Paris, 392 
Datton’s doctrine of temperature dis- 
puted, 182 
