476 



INDEX. 



Repealing circles, on, 353, 407 



Rocks, Cornish, nomenclature of, 102 

 Rumbles Moor, methods of determining 

 altitudes on, 255 



Russell (H.)» Capt. Forman's Reply to, 

 42 

 Schumacher's tables of aberration and 

 nutation, on, 248 



Scientific information, society for, 133 

 Shells, fossil, localities of, 333; rare 

 characters ofi 375 



Short-hand, on, 325 



Smith (T.) on species of Carduus and 

 Cnicus, 14 



Society, Royal, 68, 137, 233, 303, 382, 

 464; Linnaean, of London, 68, 138, 

 234, 303, 383, 465 ; Geological, of 

 London, 1 40, 235, 303, 385 ; Astro- 

 nomical, 68, 139, 236, 310, 384, 476 ; 

 Royal Institution, 137 ; Royal Aca- 

 demy of Sciences, Paris, 141, 313, 

 385 ; Horticultural, 304, 383, 466 ; 

 London Institution, 237 ; City Phi- 

 losophical, 312; Medical, of London, 

 312; for Scientific Information, 133 

 Soda, native subcarbonate of, 469 



Stars, right ascension of Dr. Maske- 

 lyne's, 53, 197, 245, 363,434; de- 

 clination of the, 431 ; fixed, declina- 

 tion of, 25 ; north polar distances of, 

 126 ; table of the precession and nu- 

 tation of, 217 ; zodiacal, on the ca- 

 talogue of, 265 

 Steam-engine, Perkins's, 313 

 Steam navigation to India, 238 

 SuTis, mock, 146 

 Swainson (W.) on Iridina, 112; on rare 

 and undescribed shells, 375 

 Tables of Vesta, on Groombridge's, 375 ; 

 new, of aberration, nutation, and 

 precession, 366 

 Tatuni (J.) on electro-magnetism, 241 

 Taylor s (J.) Lectiues on Metallurgy, 

 283, 368, 448 



Taylor's (R. of Norwich) section of 

 Hunstanton Cliff, 81 



Temperature of mines, 347, 436 



Thermonietrical eiperimerUs on the sun's 

 rays, &c. 4 



Thomson (Capt. David) on the velocity 

 of waves, 405 



Tides, theory of, 42, 219 ; strictures on 

 Dr. Young's and La Place's, 217 

 Timher, measurement of, 204, 206 



Tin, knowledge of, among the ancients, 

 109, 370 

 Tredgold on cast-iron, 270 ; on the flex- 

 ure of astronomical instruments, 10 

 University, new one in Virginia, 317 

 Upington on short-hand writing, 325 

 Vaccination, effects of, in India, 471 

 Velocity of waves, 405 



Ventilation of coal-mines, 32 



Vesta, orbit of, 161 ; on the opposition 

 of, 249 ; on Mr. Groombridge's ta- 

 bles of, 375 ; apparent place of, at the 

 ensuing opposition, 460 



Vesuvius, analysis of lava from, 73 

 Volcano, 318 



Water, action of heat and pressure on, 

 58 

 Waters, mineral, method of detecting 

 carbonic acid in, 50 



Waves of the sea, velocity of, 405 



Webster (Rich.) on the variation of the 

 magnetic pole, 165 



Weights and measures, 146 



WUford (Lieut-Col.), death of, 239 

 Wiseman on timber-measurement, 204 

 WooUgar (J. W.) on celestial globes, 

 421 

 Writing (short-hand), 325 



Yeast, 144 



Zach (Baron de) on repeating circles, 

 353, 407 

 Zoological works, analysis of, 65, 135, 

 231, 300 





END OF THE SIXTY-FIRST VOLUME. 



LONDON: 



rKINTED BY RICHARD TAriOK, SHOE-LANE. 



1823. 



