INDEX. 



475 



Geology, of the South of France, 137 ; 

 of Sumat)"a, 1 85 



Geometri/, new terms in, 289 



Gibbs, (Colonel) on native meteoric 

 iron, 409 



Glanders, cure of, 225 



Gmelin, (Prof.) on anhydrous sulphu- 

 ric acid, 315 

 Gold-mines of Carolina, 375 

 Goodwyn's (H.) mathematical computa- 

 tions, 140 

 Graydon's, (Capt. Geo.) celestial com- 

 pass, 358 

 Hamilton, (Dr.) on the plants of India, 

 and their Sanscrita names, 322 

 Hare, (Dr. R.) on a product of fused 

 carbon, 283 

 Harris's Natural History of the Bible, 48 

 Hatvorlk, (A. H.) on a binary arrange- 

 ment of nature, 105, 183, 372, 428 

 Heat, radiating, from terrestrial sources, 

 on, 437 

 Hedgehog, 461 

 Hennel, on white precipitate, 226 

 Henry, (Dr. W.) on the action of finely- 

 divided platinum on gaseous mix- 

 tures, 269 

 Herapalh, (W. ) on the earth's motion, 

 179; compensation pendulums, 374 

 Hcrapatit, (J.) on the Binomial Theo- 

 rem, 322 ; demonstration of, 432 

 Humboldt, (A.) on sulphur, sulphuret- 

 ted hydrogen, and water in volcanos, 

 108 

 Hytena caves, 467 

 Jndigo, properties of, 122 

 Iron, meteoric, large mass of, 401, 465 

 Jsland, newly-discovered, 142 

 Ivory, (J.) on the method of the least 

 squares, 3, 81, 161 ; atmospherical 

 refraction, 32 ; table of refractions, 

 con)p-.ired with Dr. Bradley's, 107 ; 

 on the figure of the eartli, 241 ; on 

 a geodetical problem, 249 

 Jack, (Dr. W.) on the geology of Su- 

 matra, 185 

 Java, altitudes of places in, 467 

 Kalcr, (Capt.) experiments on the pen- 

 dulum, 12; report on new weights 

 and measures, 147 

 JCtngsclerc, geology of, 214 

 Kirby, (Rev. W.) on the tarsus in Co- 

 leoptcra, 193, 267 

 KUhlocli cave, analysis of the earth of, 

 .305 

 Lakes, subterranean sulpluirous, 1 1 1 

 Latitude, found by a perpendicular 

 transit instrument, 354 

 Laugicr, analyses of meteorites, 41 1 

 Least S(juares, method of the, 3, 81, 161 

 Leeches, medicinal, 317 

 Lindley, (Mr. J.) on vegetation, an- 

 swer to, 30 



Locomotive action, 250 



Lyell, (C.) papers on geology by, 55, 

 297, 460, 461 

 MacLeay, (W. S.) on the Oistros or 

 Asilus, 43 ; on the tarsus of Coleop- 

 tera, 136, 193, 267 



Magnetical discoveries, 225 



Magnetic needle, Graydon's compass 

 for ascertaining the deviation of, 358 

 Marie formation in Scotland, 55 



Marmolite, of Nuttall, 88 



Mechanics, lectures for, at Paris, 304 

 Meikle, (Mr. H.) on calorific rays in 

 the sunbeam, 10 



Meteorology, 78, 79, 80, 151, 153, 160, 

 234, 240, 319, 398, 400, 473 

 Mexico, expedition to, 142, 395 



Mica, in titanium, 230 



Micrometer, Frauenhofer's, 54 



Mountains, heights of, 305, 467 



Mtimmy, opening of a, 70 



Natural History, periodical works on, 

 52 

 Nautical Abnanac, table of refractions 

 in, 37 



Navigation, aerial, 128 



Needles, magnetic, influence of copper, 

 &c. on, 317 



New Books, 48, 181, 210, 291, 385, 457 

 New South Wales, astronomical obser- 

 vations in, 299, 392 

 Newton s appendix to Euclid, 210 

 Netvton, (I.) on a surveyor's cross, 430 

 Nceggeralh, (Dr. J.) on a mass of 

 meteoric iron, 401, 465 

 (Estrus of the Greeks, 43 

 OU of laurel, 220 

 Olmsted, (Prof.) on the gold mines of 

 Carolina, 375 

 Optical deception, 468 

 Paris' s Medical Chemistry, 385 

 Patents, list of, 75, 152, 2,38, 318, 398, 

 471 

 Pcndidum, exi)eriments on the, by Capt. 

 Kater, M. Biot, &c., 12; on a new 

 compensation, 374 ; length of, at the 

 equator, 394 

 Pendulums, Compensating, 38 

 Pcrsi^m Gulf, survey of, 229 

 Peschicr, (M.) method of extracting 

 titanium from mica, 2CO 

 Plants of India, .322 

 Platinum, agency of in the formation 

 of water, 150; finely divided, action 

 of on gases, 269 

 Plesiasaurus, on the skeleton of, 412 

 Powell, (15.) on radiant heating eflects 

 from terrestrial sources, 437 

 Precipitate, while, 226 

 Pyrites, explosion in a vein of, 66 

 Qufrijueduta glocitans, 4.14 

 liail-roads and locomotive engines, 73, 1 43 

 Itain, locality of, 287 



