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INDEX to VOL. LXIII. 



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l CID, benzoic, in the fruit of the 

 clove-tree, 73 



Aeronautic ascent, 464 



ASs candidum of Pliny, 126 



Algebraic functions, their application 

 to parallel lines, 161, 246 



Algebraical notation, 68 



AmpuUariadee. On some new species 

 of, 276 



Analysis of the Maine meteorite, 19; 

 of the ore of white copper, 120; of 

 lamellar pyroxene, 131 ; of hyalosi- 

 derite, 186; of iron slags, 188; of 

 new minerals, 236 ; of green felspar, 

 283; of Cheltenham water, 312; 

 of black currant wine, 446 



Anchors, improvement in, 144 



Antarctic discoveries, 462 



Anthracite of Pennsylvania, 234 



Antimonium tartarizatum, 293 



Apennines, on the geology of, 278 



Ascidia, New species of, 321 



Asilus of the Romans, 228 



Asinus Burchellii, 451 



Astronomical information, 65, 230, 

 252, 392, 457 

 Astronomical observations, Bessel's, 

 427 

 Astronomical refractions, 418 



Atmosphere, on the dispersive power 

 of the, 192,328 



Babbagc's calculating machine, 355 

 Batty, (F.) on the opposition of Mars, 

 50; on the circular micrometer, 177 ; 

 on Babbage's calculating machine, 

 355 ; on the occultation of Georgium 

 Sidus, 458 



Bakewell, on the manufacture of salt, 

 86 

 Bangma's method of solving equations, 

 369 

 Barloiv's variation correcting plate, 392 

 Batrachian animal, 325 



Benzoic acid, 73 



Bessel on the readings of thermometers, 

 307 

 Bessel, Introduction to his Astronomical 

 Observations, 427 



Bessel on Reichenbaeh's circle, 348 

 Bcvan (B.) on the adhesion of nails, 

 168 

 Binomial calculus, 443 



Black currant wine, 446 



Books, new, 52, 135, 219, 284, 375, 447 

 Bournon (M.) on the gangues of 

 Ceylon spinelle, 30 



Bowdich, (African traveller,) death of, 

 238 

 Brandts on white copper, 120 



Brayley on the origin of meteorites, 385 

 Breese, or Brize 228 



Brem, or Brom, a Teutonic root signi- 

 fying to prick, 229 

 Brisbane river, discovery of, 459 

 Burnett, (Dr. \V.) on mercurial va- 

 pours, 42 

 Cacti, new descriptions of, 40 

 Canals from the Black Sea to the Baltic, 

 393 

 Cancer, cases of, 397 

 Ca]>stans, improvement in, 145 

 Cast-iron, test of its quality, 54 

 Xxkxos MtxrtrvvoiKav of Aristotle, 126 

 Cheltenham water, its contents, 312 

 Children and Daniell on Dcebereiner's 

 eudiometer, 72 

 Chloraster, description of, 102 

 Chronometers, rate of, its variation 

 with the density of their medium, 311 

 Circle, on the, 368 

 Clove-tree, benzoic acid in, 73 

 Comet of 1823-24, elements of, 310 

 Comet, account of, 63, 147; of Sept. 

 1822, 65 

 Copper sheathing, preservation of, 60 

 Copper, white, 119 

 Covclli and Montkelli on the pheno- 

 mena of Vesuvius, 46 

 Cranberries, 73 

 Cromer Cliff", geology of, 81 

 Curtis"s British Entomology, 57 

 Daniell and Children on Dacbereiner's 

 eudiometer, 72 

 Davy (Sir H.) on the preservation of 

 copper sheathing, f>0 

 Denmark, education in, 396 

 Daberciner's eudiometer, 71, 72 

 Earth, figure of the, 66, 339 

 Earth, sinking of the, 395 

 Earthquake, 394 ; at sea, 394 

 Earthquake in India in 1819, 105, 170 

 Earthquakes with meteors, 114, 173 

 Earthquake at Colombo, 74 ; in Chili, 

 227 ; in Jamaica, 463 

 Edinburgh Phil. Trans., 450 

 Electro -magnetical experiments, 95, 266 

 Electrometer, single-leaf, 244 

 Entomology, Thunberg's cabinet of, 74 

 Equations, method of solving, 369 

 Eudiometer of Doebcreiner, 71, 72 

 Expeditions, Northern, 69; Southern, 

 462 



