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INDEX to VOL. LXIV. 



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ILHIDADE, 25 



Ammonia, its action on copper, 72 



Analyses of American Brine-springs, 

 74; Essonite,150; Pinite, ibid ; Cam- 

 phor, 151; Holywell water, 394; 

 fused charcoal, 467 



Antiquities, 209, 273, 316 



Arbury Hill, latitude of, 140 



Architecture, Gothic, 273 



Astronomical information, 67, 68, 378 

 Astronomical observations, Bessel's, 

 17, 102, 170, 249, 341, 415 

 Atkinson, (J.) on the plants of York- 

 shire, 21 1 

 Bakewell, (R.) on Lava found at Bou- 

 logne, 414 

 Barlow, (Prof.) on the local attraction 

 of vessels, 283 

 Barometric and pluviometric observa- 

 tions, 208 

 Becquerel, (M) his electro-motive re- 

 searches, 401 

 Bell, analysis of his papers on the nerves, 

 41, 119, 353,442 

 Bellani, on shooting stars, 294 

 Beryl, 468 

 Berzelius, (Prof.) on Silicium and 

 Zirconium, 392 

 Bessel, Introduction to his Astronomical 

 Observations, 17, 102, 170, 249, 

 341, 415 

 Bessel's Meridian Circle, 67 

 Bevan, (B) on the heights of stations 

 in the Trigonometrical Survey, 140 

 Binomial Theorem, 270 

 Biot, (M.) on the pendulum, 161 

 Birds, migration of 50, 91 

 Bog, disruption of, 229 

 Bolides, on their .general nature, 289 

 Books, new, 62, L43, 218, 304, 371, 457 

 Brandes, on shooting stars, 294 

 Brayley, (E. W.) on the progress of 

 science respecting igneous meteors, 

 and meteorites, in 1823, 1 11, 287 

 Brine-springs, 74 

 Buds, theory of, 82 

 Burney, (Dr.) Meteorological obser- 

 vations, 208 ; on the Meteorological 

 Register, 370 

 Calculus of variations, 330 



Calendar of Flora, Fauna, and Porno • 

 na, 77, 157, 238, S18, 397, 470 



Camphor, analysis of, 151 



Campo Santo, of Pisd, Gothic orna- 

 ments of, 273 

 Carriages, on the wheels and springs of, 

 394 

 Celery, early, 237 

 Chalk formation in America, 469 

 Charcoal, said to be fused, 467 

 Chemical contributions, 321 

 Combustion, electricity of, 409 

 Comet, 209 

 Conybeare, (W. D.) on Ichthyosaurus 

 and Saurocephalus, 414 

 Cooper, on solar time, 210 

 Copper slieeting, method of preserving, 

 30, 233 

 Crystals, contractions of by heat, 152 ; 

 axes of double refraction in, 1 62 

 DanielCs Meteorological Essays, review 

 of, 218 

 Davy, (Sir H.) on the preservation of 

 Copper Sheeting of ships, 30, 233 

 Decimal notation, 303, 362 

 Dabereiner, on conversion of oxalate 

 and formiate of ammonia into hydro- 

 cyanic acid, 234 ; his new mode of 

 producing fire, 3 

 Earthquakes, 233, 315 

 Egyptian Antiquities, 316 

 Electro-chemistry, 7, 401 

 Electro-Magnetism, 242 

 Enalio Sauri, 409 

 Encke planet, 178 

 Engine, explosive, 154 

 Equations, functional, solution of, 197 

 333 

 Essonitc, analysis of, 150 

 Euclid. On his Twelfth Book, 181 

 Evans, (Rev. L.) Demonstration of 

 Newton's Binomial Theorem, 270 

 Explosive Engine, 154 

 Farey, (J.) on the velocity of sound, 

 178; on the Encke planet, 180; on 

 shooting stars, ib. 

 Fire-balls, on their general nature, 289 

 Flames, electricity of, 406 

 Flora, English, (Sir J. E. Smith's,) 226, 

 339 



