el ail ae 
INDEX. 475 
Guilding, (Rev. L.) on Oiketicus, 450 
Gulf-stream, 334, 424 
Hansteen, (Prof.) on the number and 
situation of the magnetic poles, 114, 
167; on the noise attending the 
aurora borealis, 177 
Hare, (Prof.) on the gales in the At- 
lantic States of N. America, 113; 
on improved eudiometers, 21 ; on the 
use of the sliding rod in hydrometry, 
266 
Harris, (Dr.) on a nondescript species 
of Condylura , 191 
Heliostat, 373, 453 
Hennell, (Mr.) analysis of oil of wine, 
312 
Herapath’ s (J.) demonstration, on P. 
Q.’s defence of, 53, 101; his sup- 
plement to a former paper, 442 
Horsfield, (Dr.) ona new Ursus, 451 
Hydrographical notices, 332, 421 
Hydrometry, on the sliding rod mea- 
surement in, 266 
Hutton’s and Gregory’s mathematical 
tables, errata in, 210 
Infinite series, general term of a new 
class of, 261 
Ivory, (J.) on the figure of the planets, 
31, 82; on the line of shortest di- 
stance traced on an oblate spheroid, 
241, 340; on the equilibrium of 
fluids, 439 
Jeffries, (Dr.) dissection of the ourang 
outang, 182 
Kingia, character and description of, 
352, 409 
Latitude, Burns on finding the, 406 
Lead-plaster, necessity of water in the 
preparation of, de 
Levy's (Mr.) property of the octahe- 
dron, on, 52 
Lime, action of, on alcohol, 310 
Longitude, difference of, between Green- 
wich and Paris, 148 
Machinery, mechanical notation of, 314 
Magnelic poles, on the number and si- 
tuation of, 114 
Magnetic rotation, 73 
Magnetism, 73, 114, 167, 280 
Majendie’s experiments on the brain, 
303 
Maryland aérolite, analysis of, 104 
Melaina, on, 317 
Metals, preservation of, by electro- 
chemical means, 89 
Meteoric stone, notice of, 102, 104, 107 
Meteoric stones, &c. new catalogue of, 
3, 179 
Metcorites, $, 102, 179 
Meteorology, 5S, 76, 110, 157, 177, 179, 
232, 265, 310, 315, 317, $21, 337, 
387, 390, 428, 455 
Mines, temperature of, 302 
Moseley, (H.) on the equilibrium of the 
funicular curve, 324 
Moyle, (M. P.) on the temperature of 
mines, 302 
Murray,.(J.) on the ebullition of water 
at different altitudes, 201; chemical 
observations, 226 
Natural History, Mr. Bicheno on Sy- 
stems in, 451 
New Books, 60, 219, 289 
Neggerath, (Dr. J.) on the volcanic 
origin of the rock-salt formation, 193 
Octahedron, demonstration of Mr. Levy’s 
property of, 52 
Oil of wine, analysis of, 312 
Optics, 153 
Ourang outang, dissection of, 182 
Oxides and salts, natural formation of, 
72 
Pantochronometer, 225 
Paris and Greenwich, difference of lon- 
gitude between, 148 
Patents, list of, 75, 156, 231, 317, 388 
Planets, on the figure of the, 31 ; minor, 
opposition of, 277 
Plants, phenogamous, on the unim- 
pregnated ovulum in, 356, 409 
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, skeleton of, 
272 
P. Q.’s reply to Mr. Davies’s post- 
script on Mr. Herapath’s demonstra- 
tion, 101 
Riddle, (E.) on Mr. Burns’s double 
altitude problem, 131 
Rock-salt formation, volcanic origin of, 
193 
Rose, (M.) on the combinations of an- 
timony, 124 
Sabine, (Capt.) on the method of in- 
vestigating the direction of the cur- 
rents of the ocean, 332; on the pre- 
sence of the water of the Gulf-stream 
in Europe, 334; on the influence of 
land on the temperature of the sea, 
338, on the stream of the river Ama- 
zons, 431; on the velocity and tem- 
perature of the Gulf-stream, 434 
Saturn, on the planet, 57 
Sedgwick, (Rev. A.) on trap dykes, 211, 
249 
Silliman, ( Prof.) on the Maryland aéro- 
lite, 107 
Simia Satyrus, dissection of, 182 
Smith, (M.) on the planet Saturn, 57 
Smith, (Sir J. E.) notice of his English 
Flora, 60 
Societies, learned ; Royal Society,67,133, 
221, 290, 373,450; Linnzan Society, 
67,133, 221, 290, 374, 450; Gealo- 
gical Society, 68, 184, 222, 291, 374; 
Medico- Botanical Society, 70; Royal 
