476 



INDEX. 



Piayfaxr, Professor. Death of, 79 

 Puisuns. On, 463 

 P lar Ice. On, 107, iy4 

 Pomjteii, discoveries in, 237 

 Portable gas lights, 233 

 Prize Questiuijs, 331,387,462 

 Provisions. On preserving, 58,142 

 Pyrolignaus acid. Autisepiic properties 

 of, . 63 

 Ha^jifs^KP on sea snakes, &c. 861 

 Readt'i theory of vision, 49 

 fiefiecl.iig cirde. On the, 161 

 iUdiile on reflecting circle, 161 ; re- 

 marks by, on Mcikle on Longitude, 

 . 241; on Capt. Rosa's reply to Capt. 

 . Sabine, 250; reply to R. by Meikle, 

 34S, 401 

 Rio Janeiro. On, lt)7, 194 

 liny at Academy of Inscriptions, Paris, 387 

 Copenha 



387 



381 



382 



86 



66,461 



gen, 

 Royal College nfSwg'ons, 

 Royal Geological S^iciely, 

 Rdval Institute of France, 

 Royal Society, 

 Sabine on irregularities of compass- 

 needle, 276 

 Sabine. Remarks on Ross's reply to, 

 i'50 

 Samouell^) EnlomoUgy, 307 

 Scoresby on compass needle, 282 

 S'a snakes, &c. On, 361 

 Serpents, .'.ea. On, 361 

 Sheldon on chesnut wood, 148 

 Skirt, diseases cf. A prize question, 581 

 Sleep. On the proximate causes of, 

 25'2, 324 



Smut, to prevent in wheat, 396, 397 

 Sound, velocity of, 7S 



Specific heal. On, 268 



Specific weight of atoms. On, '270 



Spider. Anecdote of a, 378 



Spudumene discovered in Scotland, 314 

 Sulphuric aad. Composition of, SO 

 Swallows. luglis on, 321 



Sympiesometer. Adie's, i.'33 



Tanr.hg with chesnut wood, 148 



Tea. Poisonous, 218 



Tdf^rd's Menai bridge, 1 1 



Tellurium and TungstfjK On, 152 



Titanium found in oxidulated iron ore, 



46j 

 Thenard on oxygenated water, 70, 312 

 Timber. Climates of, 2J2 



Trade-winds. On the, 107, 194 



Tredgotd on friction, 19 



Tapper on crauiology, 226 



Vfiington on music, 3; on harmony,' 3 

 Faccinaliov, 233 



FapouT. Effect of on flame, 140 



Fision. Experiments on, 48 



JFalt, James, esq. njemoir of the late, 



440 

 ff'eighls and Measures. Commissioners' 

 Report on, 172; previous suggestions 

 on, 175 



Whale, skeleton of, 157 



IVheat. To cure smut in, 396, 397 

 U'hre'.-ca'rriuges. On, '21 



JFhite's Ephemtris, 46S 



//'ine poisoned by lead shot, ^2U0 



Winter. Early severity ofj 46f> 



Zoology, Ashantee, i'9 



KND OF TH^frnT^^URTH VOLUME. 





I'liiUea by R.and A- Taylor, Shoe Lu.ru, Luiidun. 



