476 



INDEX. 



Pump, a hydro-pneumatic, for com- 

 pressing gases, &c. 12, 129, 441 

 Refraction, 255 

 Respiration, nerves of, 42, 119 

 Review of books, 226, 218 

 Reviews, misrepresentations of, 227, 339 

 Ritchie, (J.) the late African traveller, 

 letter from, 69 

 Rockets, rifle, 75, 154 

 Scholz, on selenium, and tellurium, 83 

 Schweigger, (Dr.) on Doebereiner's 

 new mode of producing fire, 3 

 Seal, a tame one, 236 

 Seaivard, on a hydro-pneumatic pump, 

 12, 129, 441 

 Selenium, 83 

 Sexual impulse, in birds, 56, 101 

 Shooting stars, 180, 294 

 Silicium, 392 

 Smith, (Sir J. E.) on vegetation, 241, 

 456 ; his English Flora, on a review 

 of, 226, 339 

 Smith, (M.) on finding the latitude by 

 the altitudes of two stars, 351 ; on 

 mean solar time, 350 

 Society, Royal French Academy, 65, 

 148, 205, 381, 466; Horticultural, 

 147,377; Native Calcutta, 149; Caen, 

 238; Academy of Sciences of Copen- 

 hagen, 207 ; Royal Academy of 

 Brussels, 208; Royal, 374, 459; 

 Linnasan, 374,463; Geological, 375, 

 463; Astronomical, 378, 464 ; Lon- 

 don Mechanics' Institution, 380 

 Sotmd, the velocity of, 178 

 Steel, method of cutting by soft iron, 73 

 Sturgeon, (W.) on Electro-Magnetism, 

 242 

 Stars, circumpolar, 249 

 Succulent plants, new, 184, 298 

 Taylor, ( Arthur) on the Gothic orna- 

 ments of the Duomo, &c. of Pisa, 

 273 



Tea, adulteration of, 151 



Tellvrium, odour of, 83 



Telescope, flexure of, 170 



Thenard, (M.) on Doebereiner's ex- 

 periment, 10 

 Thouars, du Petit, vegetable physio- 

 logy, 81,228,456 

 Tiarkss (Dr.) trigonometrical surveys, 

 233 

 Tiarks, (Dr.) on his tables for solar 

 time, 211, 350 

 Time, mean solar, 210 

 Titanium, metallic, 392 

 Toad, natural history of, 85 

 Tourmaline, 463 

 Tredgold, (T.) on weights and measures, 

 302, 362 

 Trona Lake, 387 

 Trumpeter bird a ventriloquist, 469 

 Vanuxem, (L.) on fused charcoal 467 

 Veal/, (Mr.) meteorological observa- 

 tions, 237, 370, 471 

 Vegetable physiology of M. du Petit 

 Thouars, 81, 241, 456 

 Vegetation, theories of Sir J. E. Smith 

 and M. du Petit Thouars, 241, 456 

 Vessels, local attraction of, 283 

 Voltaic pile, action of, 7,32,129 

 Wals/i, (J.) on the Twelfth book of 

 Euclid, 181 ; on the calculus of 

 variations, 330 

 Wasjys, absence of, 234, 238 

 Water-spout, effects of, 152 

 Water, its electro-motive action on 

 metals, 401 

 Webster, (Mr.)geolog. observations,375 

 Weights and Measures, 302, 362 

 Wollaston-, ( Dr. ) on the semi-decussation 

 of the optic nerves, 134 

 Woolnoth, (J. C.) analysis of Holywell 

 water, 394 

 Yorkshire, plants in, 211 

 Zirconium, S92 



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