INDEX to VOL. LVUI. 
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A po. Observatory at, 220 produced by electricity, 48, 406; 
Aerostation. Green’s ascent, 68 On papyri of Herculaneum, 421 
Africa. New Expedition to, 219 Davy (Dr. T.) on Ceylon, 297 
African Geography. Correction of, $94 Deuchar on compressibility of water, 201 
Animal sagacity, 461 Diamond. On the, 386 
Antique Glass. Cabinet for, 226 Dogs. Madness of, confined to males, 
Antiquities, Egyptian, 147, 223; 224, 
$93; Druidical, 150; Indian, 226; 
of Nubia, 451 
Apple Trees. To promote early puberty 
of, 136 
Arctic Land Expedition, 888 
Asiatic Society, 303 
Astronomical Society, $85, 450 
Astronomical Tables, 
Atkinson on Latitude, 
Atmospherical Refraction. On calcula- 
ting, 161, 341 
Australasia, coast of, explored, 452 
Banks, Sir J. Statue to the memory of, 
Ny | 
75, 154, 237, 
315, 397, 464 
Benwell on Progressional Series, 265 
Berzelius on constituents of water, 203 
Blow-pipe, Tofft’s. Appendage to, 401 
Blue vegetable colours, with metallic salts, 
; 273 
Books, New, 60, 141, 209, 296, 382, 444 
Botany, 221; South American, 468 
Brookes’s gas blow-pipe. Substitute for, 
401 
Brugnatelli’s new salifiable base, 308 
Burney on meteors, &c. 22, 127, 198,465 
Barometric observations, 
Busby’s hydraulic orrery, 415 
Calculous diseases. On, 386 
Cameron’s crucibles, to make, 247 
Campbell on Unicorn, 148 
Capillary action. Ons 864 
Cartridges for sportsmen, 107, 283 
Cary’s Meteorological Tables, 80, 160, 
240, 320, 400, 472 
Chameleon. On the, 227 
Charcoal and Hydrogen. On aériform 
compounds of, 90, 169 
Coat gas. Wenry on, , 90, 169 
Cohesion. On, 364 
Crucibles. New method of making, 
247 
Crystals. On structure of, 150 
Dalton on analysing waters, 291 
Davy, (E.) on testing milk, 241 
Davy (Sir H.) on magnetic phenomena 
311. This a mistake, 386 
Double stars. On catalogue of, 442 
Drawing instrument. New, 151 
Druidical antiquities, 150 
Dulong on constituents of water, 203 
Dupin’s work on Great Britain, 209 
Earth. On mean density of the, 3 
Earthquakes, 221, 458 
Eclipse annular of sin in 1836. On, 34 
Edinburgh School of Art& 148 
Egyptian antiquities, 147, 223, 224, 225, 
393 
Electricity. Magnetic phenomena of, 
43, 406; History of, 137 
Farey on trigonometrica]l survey, 54; 
on shooting stars, 183 
Fire shield. Description of, 228 
Fish flour. On, 236 
Flame under water. To maintain, 307 
Flying. An apparatus for, 268 
Forster on Funguses, 213 
Fossil elk found in Isle of Man, 150 
Fossils, 455 
France, population of, 451 
French Asiatic Society, 143 
Fruits. On chemical changes while 
ripening, 227 
Funguses. Forster on, 213 
Gas blow-pipe. . Brookes’s, 401 
Gases. Henry on, 90, 169 
Glow-worm. Rogerson on, 53 
Grooby’s right ascension of 36 stars, 50, 
111, 195, 268, 469 
Green’s aérial voyage, 68 
Harvest. On conducting, 57 
Heat. Graduation of, in atmosphere, 24 
Henry on gases, 90, 169 
Herapath’s theory refuted, 190, 260 
Herculaneum. On papyri of, 421 
Herpin on wines, 254 
Herschel, (J. ¥.) Copley medal to, 448 
Home on rete mucosum of the Negro, 31 
Horizontorium, a philosophical toy, 151 
Husbandry, spade and plough, 461 
Hutton on mean density of the earth, 3; 
bust of, 305 
Hydraulic orrery, Busby’s, 415 
