i76 



INDEX. 



Sentca oil, 76 



Sneni, King and Co.'s insurance cause, 

 252 

 Ships. Evil of damp decks, &c. 3 



Sinclair on mildew, 72 



Sirene. A new acoustic instiument, 

 293, Sai 

 Smith's new geological map and atlas, 

 30-V, 305 

 Smoke. On consuming, 391; burning 

 of, 469 



Solid geometry . Larkin on, 144 



Sotverby's sword of meteoric iron, 49 

 Sphinx. On the temple of, 351 



Staliitics, 76 



Steam naviga-tion. Improvements in, 

 S93 

 Strata round St. Petersburgh, 31.'3 



Strergth, coir.paralxve, of Europeans and 

 savages, 1 49 



Siuart, C.Gilbert) on North-west pas- 

 sage, -33 

 Suear produced from linen, 119; ac- 

 tion of sulphuric acid on, 123 

 Sulphuric acid. On alteration of, by al- 

 cohol, _ 295,359 

 Sulphcvinous acids, how obtained, 360 

 Summers, hot and dry , List of, 157 

 Tainsh on plague, 15 

 Temperature of the earth, undiminished, 

 158 



Time, sidereal and solar. A question, 

 73 ; correction of, 314,350 



Tin-plate. Origin of manufacture of, 

 366 

 Ulmin. Ligneous matter converted into, 

 124' 

 Ullir.g on correct account of civil time, 

 350 

 Van Mons on Iodine, v . 207 



Fegetable alkales, n-u; 67,289 



KcgHo-sulphuu ac:d, 121 



VerheuVs visit to the crater of a volca- 

 no, 371 

 Fesuvius. Eruption of, 76 

 Fision, New theory of, 417 

 Volcano Guenor.g Apie. Visit to crater 

 of, 371 

 Fijyage of discovery. New, 311,469 

 Uamlite. Analysis of, 67 

 lycaiher'. History of, 151 

 JVeisihorn glaner, fall of, 375 

 li'heat-Jlour. Test for, 469 

 Wild ass oi \nd\z, 3)3 

 jyUson (Sir R.) on plague, 16 

 fPlnte's, severe. Chronology of, 152 

 Yeales on ancient eclipses, 244, 344, 439 

 Yellow dye, new mineral, 181 

 Young on preparing opium, 164 

 Zircon. On, 377 

 Zoogene in the thermal waters of Ba- 

 den, 65 



END OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH VOLUME. 



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