476 



INDEX. 



Meteorological, 229, 305, HSO, 405 ; 

 Royal, 387, 452 ; Uoyal Academy 

 of Sciences, Paris, 72, 145, 227, 307; 

 Literary, &c. of Ceylon, 147 



Spec. gi-ni'iVy of liquefied gases, 418 



Sjtecutar iron, formed in the lava of 

 Vesuvius, 86 



Sphere, properties of the, 338 



Stalactites, siliceous, mode of their for- 

 mation, 71 

 Star,, R. A. of, 16, 110, 190, 276, 346; 

 zodiacal, catalogue of, 47 ; fixed, 

 changes in declination of, 175; oc- 

 cultations (for 1824) of, 161, 278, 378 

 Steam-engine, report on, 146; governor, 

 297 

 Steel, cut by soft iron, 317 

 Storms, 232, 315 

 Sulphur, its formation in volcanoes, 93 

 Sulphurous acid, its formation in volca- 

 noes, 93; acid gas, liquefied, 417 

 Sulph. hyd. gas, liquefied, 418 

 Swainsoji on undescribed shells, 401 

 Tartarus stihiatus, 1S8 

 Tatum on electro-magnetism, 107 

 Telford on London Bridge, 21 

 Temperature of mines, 38, 94 

 Teuthredos, British, 155, 316, 451 

 Thames, on a roadway under, 139; ef- 

 fects of London Bridge on, 21 

 Tlietiard and Buhng on the combina- 

 tion of elastic fluids, 282 

 Theorem of Pythagoras, question on, 

 236, 308, 310 

 Thermo-electric phenomena, 321 



Thermometer at Smyrna in 1R20, 121 

 Tiarks (Dr.) on sidereal time, 280 



Tides in the Thames, 25, 30 



Time, sidereal, on reducing to mean 

 time, 280 



Titanium, its metallic properties, 18 

 Traill, on American species of Fclis, 372 

 Transit instrument, adjustment of the 

 line of collimation of the, 377 



Travellers to the East, 232 



Tredgold on Jopling's apparatus, 211 

 Trees destroyed by insects, 252 



Trisection of an arc, 10 



Tunnel under the Thames, 139 



Vesuvius, formation of specular iron in 

 its lava, 36 ; ashes of, contain car- 

 bon, 87 ; observations at, 90 

 Volcanic eruptions, agency of water in, 

 82 ; vapours, contain muriatic acid, 

 84, 91, 93 

 Volcano in Iceland, 233 ; eruption of, 1 5 1 

 Volcanos, on, 81, 90 

 Voltaic pile, power of connecting wire 

 augmented, 44 1 

 Voyage of discovery, Kotzebue's, 231 

 Usnea, new species of, 155 

 Utting on a planetary analogy, 118 

 IVaier, its agency in volcanic eruptions, 

 82 ; of deep mines, its saline con- 

 tents, 46 ; temperature of spring, 42 

 Water-spouts and storms, 232 

 Wollaston on titanium, 18 

 Wright on fulminating mercury, 203 

 Zoology, 15, 252, 255, 274, 316, 372, 

 387, 395, 401, 457 



ERRATA: 



Pa<Te 153, line 8 : for " and it may constitute the basis" read " and to the pro- 

 bability that it may constitute the basis" &c. 



Page 202, six lines from bottom, the words Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous 

 should be transposed. 



Page 267, line 20: for "slips" read "falls." In Mr. Wright's paper on Ful- 

 minating Mercury, p. 203 &c. /or " Chlorine of potash," read passim " Chlorate." 



Page 360, line 5 : for " lime" read "magnesia." 



Page 283, first note, line 2 : for "300°," read "572° F." 



Page 387, line 9 : for "the Rev. E. Jenner," read "Mr. G. II. C. Jenner," 



Page 396, line 9 from bottoiiJj/or "a iiiixture," read "the mixture." 



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