INDEX TO VOL. LXV. 



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ILGEBRAICAL analym, 344 



Alluvial strata, 461 



Ammonia, formation of, 309 



Amphibia, binary arrangement of, 372 

 Analysis, of the water of Rio Vinagre, 

 109 ; of indigo, 1 22 ; of gaseous 

 mixtures by platinum, 269 ; of earth 

 from Kiihloch cavern, 305 ; of Cau- 

 casian springs, 307; of meteorites, 

 405 

 Analysis, mathematical, on methods of, 

 344 

 Anas glocitans, 434 



Animals, dichotomous distribution of, 

 428 

 Annulosa Javanica, 458 



Antimony, tartarized, 396 



Arithmetical engine, Babbage's, 207 

 Asilus of the Romans, 43 



Aslronomieal Information, 63, 299, 392, 

 466 

 Atmospherical refraction, reply to the 

 Historical Sketch of the Problem of, 

 in the Journal of Science, 32 



Babbage, (C.) on machinery for compu- 

 ting mathematical tables, 207 

 BaUy, (F.) on wooden pendulum rods, 

 41 

 Barlow's (Mr.) magnetical discove- 

 ries, 225 

 Beer, powder, to make, 398 

 Berzelius, (M.) on siliciuin, 254 

 Binary arrangement of nature, 105, 

 1 83, 372, 428 

 Binomial Theorem, 322 

 Biot, (M.) experiments on the pendu- 

 lum, 12 

 Bischof, (Dr. G.) on a large mass of 

 meteoric iron, ■ 401 

 Books, new, 48, 1^1, 210, 291, 385, 457 

 Boron, preparation of, 63 

 Boussingault, Rivero and Roulin, Messrs. 

 researches of, in South America, 304 

 Bradley's, (Dr.) observations on refrac- 

 tions, 107 

 Bratidy, from potatoes, 226 

 Breeze, an insect, 45 

 Bridges, rope, in India, 71 

 Butter, (H.) on new weights and mea- 

 sures, 51 

 C. on secular changes in the solar sy- 

 stem, 23 

 Calendar of Flora, Fauna, and Pomo- 

 na, 73 

 Calorific rays in the sunbeam, non-ex- 

 istence of, 10 



Carbon, fused, of Prof. Silliman, 283 

 Carolina, gold mines of, 375 



Caucasus, mineral springs of, 307 



Chain-bridge, in Russia, 73 



Changes, secular, in the solar system, 23 

 Coal, Mexican, 308 



Collimator, floating, Kater's, 52 



Comet, new, 466 



Compass, celestial, Graydon's, 358 



Conybeare, (Rev. W. D.) on the skele- 

 ton of the P/e«WaMrMS, 412 

 Copper, magnetic influence of, 317 ; car- 

 bonate of, 461 

 Copper mines, British, produce of, 69 

 Cojuier sheathing, electrical combinations 

 for preserving, 203 

 Crocodile of the Ganges, 64 

 Cross, improved, land-surveyor's, 430 

 Croton Tiglium, use of, in medicine, 225 

 Crustacea, a binary arrangement of the, 

 105, 183 

 Cuvier, (M.) on the osteology of rep- 

 tiles, 447 

 Dalton, (J.) on indigo, 122 

 Davy, (Sir H.) on the preservation of 

 the copper sheathing of ships, 203 

 Dichotomous arrangement of nature, 

 105, 183, 872, 428 

 Duck, bimaculated, 434 

 Earth's figure, (Mr. Ivory) on the, 241 

 Earth's motion, electric and magnetic 

 causes of, 179, 290 

 Earthquakes, in Persia, 64 ; in Sussex, 

 70; in Iceland, 395; inSicily in 1823, 

 92, 168 

 Elborus, Mount, height of, 305 

 Electric fluid, motion of, 228, 229 

 Engraving on zinc, 47 1 

 Eolian Sea, volcanic phaenomena of, 177 

 Equations, functional, UoC of in geo- 

 metric investigations, 101 

 Eudiometer, Docbereiner's, 269 

 Faraday, (Mr.) on the formation of 

 ammonia, 309 ; on the crystals of 

 sulphate of soda, 316 

 Ferrara, (Abate) on the earthquakes 

 in Sicily in 1823, 92, 168 

 Figure and Forces, use of analysis in 

 investigating, 1 95 

 France, scientific instruction in, 304 

 Galbrailh, (Wm.) on the experiments 

 of the ijendulum, 12 

 Galvanic rotation, 47 

 Gcodelical problem, correction of an in- 

 advertence in, 249 

 Geological distribution nfrej)tiles, 454 



