INDEX. 



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Livunia, measurement of a degree in.S 1 1 

 London Bridge, Telford's report on, 21, 

 on the taking down, 28 



I,i/nx, varieties of, 75 



Mac Lea;/, (W. S. ) on the nat. distribu- 

 tion of insects and fungi, 192, 255 

 MagHClisni, effect of heat on, 74 



Manuscripts, oriental, 230 



Marsh's thermo-electric apparatus, 237, 

 321 

 Maske!;/ne's36 stars, R.A. of, 16, 110, 

 190, 276, 346 

 Mastodon, new locality of, 468 



Mailer, origin and divisibility of, 360 ; 

 impenetrability of, 364 



Mcilde on an air-barometer, 2 1 4 



Mercury, fulminulbi'i, gunpowder fired 

 by " 203 



Meridian, measurement of an arc of, in 

 India, 78 



Metallic crystals, formation of in nature, 

 21 

 Metals, property of, to facilitate the 

 combination of elastic fluids, 282 

 Meteors, 238, 315 



Meteorology, 80, 1 60, 238, 240, 320, 400, 

 472 

 Milne, on the cultivation of the cran- 

 berry, 382 

 Miiws, temperature of, 38, 94 ; deep, 

 saline contents of the water in them, 

 46 ; new, in France, 234 

 Monlicelli and CuveUi, on Vesuvius, 90 

 Motion, law of, in planetary orbits, 118 

 Multijilier, Sehweigger's, 441 

 Mural circle, Greenwich, 183, 292, 295, 

 311, 390, 454 

 Muriatic acid, its presence in volcanic 

 vapours, 84, 91, 93 

 Muriatic acid gas, liciucfied, 415,422 

 Murray (J. ) on phosphorus, 73 ; on 

 magnetism, 74 ; on Key's Essays, 93 ; 

 on the glow-worm, 456 

 Museum, British, 300 

 Museum, French, ibid. 

 2^arcisse(e, ne^v genus of, 440 

 Natural arrangancnt, quinary, 192, 200, 

 255, 274 

 NitturalHktory, works on, 1 44, 223, 303 

 Newton (P.) on trisection of an arc, 10; 

 on the tlieorcni of Pythagoras, 309 

 Nicholson, (I'.) on the transformation 

 of functions, 168; on derivative ana- 

 lysis, 244, 3'18, 433 

 Nwket, facilitates the combination of 

 elastic fluids, 283, 397 

 Niger, mission to the, 229 

 Nitrous oxide, liquefied, 420 

 Obserialory, at I'aramatta, 311 ; in Li- 

 vonia, SI I 

 OccuUntions of fixed stars (for 1824), 

 161, 278, 378, 450 



Oil-gas, 470 



Oriental manuscripts, 230 



Palladium, facilitates the combination 

 of elastic fluids, iS2, 284 



Palmer, on railways, 67 



Parallax of a Lyra;, 292 ; annual, ques- 

 tion respecting, 297, 453 

 Paramatta, observations at, 311 ; length 

 of pendulum at, 467 

 Parry, (Capt.) 312, 393 

 Patents, new, 79, 158, 239, 319, 398,471 

 Pendulum, observations on, 151, 230, 

 393, 467 

 Petrifactions of Osterweddigen, 367 

 Phosjyhoru «, 73 

 Planetary orbits, law of motion in all, 

 118, 214 

 Plants, succulent, 380; new species of, 

 145,224, :;03, 381, 455; to preserve 

 from insects, 469 

 Platinum, i)rotoxide of, disposes alco- 

 hol to become acetic acid, 289 ; ab- 

 sorbs every indammable gas, 290; 

 oxidized sulphuret of, has the same 

 properties, ibid. ; its effect in com- 

 bining elastic fluids, 282, 286, 291, 

 396 

 2'/((mi«go, experiments on, 124, 131 

 I'oisson, on the caloric of gases and va- 



poms. 



328 



Pond, (Mr.) on the changes of declir. of 

 stars, 175; on the parallax of a Lyra-, 

 292 ; his ojiinion on the history of 

 annual parallax, 227, 453, 466 



Pond (Mr.) and M. Bessel, 389,454,466 

 Pressure, development of electricity by, 

 204, 263 

 Preuss's steam-engine governor, 297 

 Pyrophorus, a new, 189 



Jtaia, gigantic species of, 395 



Rey's (Jean) Essays, 9:> 



Rose, on felspar and other crystals, 314 

 Rotation, electro-magnetic, 237, 321 

 Sabine's (Capt.) expedition, 151, 230 

 Saltus, in nature, RlacLeay on, 198 

 Sehweigger's nuilriplier, 441 



Seaward, (J.) on suspension chain 

 bridges, 425 



Shells, specific characters of, 401 



Siliceous stalactites, mode of their for- 

 mation 7 1 

 Silliman, on ammoniacal gas, 154 ; ex- 

 periments on diamond, plumbago, 

 &c., 12! 

 Silver, its facilitation of the combination 

 of elastic fluids, 285 

 Smyrna, thermometer at, 121 

 Squire on the solar (he eclipse J50 

 Snarl, on ipiadrature of the circle, .°3B 

 Society, -Vstrouomical, 388, 465 ; Geo- 

 logical, 70, 388, I'i I ; Horticultural, 

 225, 30-1, 161; Liiiiucan, 387, -155 ; 



