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INDEX TO VOL. LXI. 



JIbERRATIOK,^c. New Tables 

 of, 366 ; on M. Schumacher's Tables 

 of, 248 



Acid, carbonic, in mineral waters, 50 

 Acid, uric, on, 396 



Aerial navigation, 6 



jEther, sulphiu-ic, action of heat and 

 pressure on, 58 



Africa, interior of, discoveries in, 70 

 Altitude of Great Whernside, 209 



Analysis, &c. 462 



Animal life, 169 



Animals feeding on mineral substances, 3 

 Antiquities, 145 



Apparatus, galvanic, 470 



Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land, 238, 305 

 Astronomical instruments, flexure of, 10 

 Astronomy, 467 

 Baily, F., supplementary Table of the 

 Precession and Nutation of fixed 

 Stars, 217 

 Barometer for measuring Altitudes, 61 

 Belemnite, structure of the, 391 

 Bessel (Prof. ) on the declination of fixed 

 stars, 25, 431 

 Bichat's Theory of Life, 168 

 Bleaching, 265 

 Boaz (Jas.) on the earth's structure, 

 200 

 Books, new, 63, 133, 228, 292, 379, 462 

 Borax, on, 396 

 Botanical works, analysis of, 65, 135, 

 231, 281, 300, 462 

 Brassica, species cultivated in Europe, 

 87, 181 

 Burney's (Dr. W.) Thermometrical Ex- 

 periments, &c. 4 

 Cabbage, species cultivated in Europe, 

 .87, 181 

 Cagniard de la Tour on the combined 

 action of heat and pressure on water, 

 &c., 58 

 Caloric and Magnetism, experiments on, 

 207 ; Mr. Murray's experiments on 

 the relation between, 251 

 Carbon, opake crystallized, 423 

 Carduus, species of, 14 

 Ctut-iron, Girard on the resistance of, 

 270 

 Catalogue of Zodiacal Stars, on the, 265 

 Ceres, apparent place of, at the ensuing 

 opposition, 461 

 Chronometers, 177 



Cinnabar, 143 



Cnicus, species of, 14 



Coal-Mines, on pillar and way-going 

 work in, 30 ; ventilation of, 32 



Coal-works, ventilation of, 99 



Coals, modes of working, 99 



Comet, Encke's, 275 



Cornish Rocks, nomenclature of, 102 

 Crystallization of iron, 22, 83 



Curvature of the earth, unit of measure 

 from the, 266 



Cuvier (G.), Report to the French Aca- 

 demy on the researches of Flourens 

 on the nerves, 114 



De CandoUe (Prof.) on the genus Bras- 

 sica, 87, 181 

 Declination of the Stars, 431 ; of fixed 

 stars, 25 

 Discoveries in the interior of Africa, 70 

 Dobbie (W.) on the magnetic power of 

 the Poles, 252 

 Drummond on a property of polygons, 

 162 

 Earth, changes in the struoture of the, 

 200 

 Earth's curvature, unit of measure de- 

 duced from, 266 

 Earthquakes, 237, 318, 397, 398 

 Electricity excited in paper, 330 

 Electro-magnetic experiments, new, 146, 

 241 

 Elliott on oil-gas, 401 

 Ellis on the effect of cold on the mag- 

 netic needle, 70 

 Encke's comet, 275 

 Eudiometry, application of potassium 

 in, 5i 

 Expedition. Capt. Parry's, 142, 390; to - 



the Niger, 142 ; North-West, 73. 

 Experiments, electro-magnetic, 146 ; 

 thermometrical, on tlie sun's rays, 4 

 Farey (J.) on the modes of working 

 coals, 99; on ventilating coal- works, 

 101 ; on localities of fossil shells, 333 

 Fermentation, vinous, on, 34 ; appara- 

 tus for, ibid, on, 208 

 Flourens (M.) on the nervous system, 

 report on, 114 

 Fluid, new, found in minerals, 395 

 Forman (Capt.) on the tides, 42; on 

 Dr. Young's and La Place's theories, 

 219 

 Foss'd shells, Sowerby's localities of, 333 

 Fruit trees, 238 

 Gas (oil) in France, 1,47 



