476 
Refraction. Reade on, 249; Ivory on, 
341; Stark on, 431 
Respiration. Apparatus for restoring, 276 
Rete mucosum of the Negro. On, 31, 140 
Riddle’s method of determining latitude. 
On, 40, 103, 200; On nautical as- 
tronomy, $21 
Rogerson on: glow-worm, 53 
Rolling pendulum. On, 417 
Rose of Jericho. On, 860 
Royal Institution, Cornwall, 302 
Royal Society, 60, 142, 447 
Royal Society of Literature, 64 
Sabine, (E.) Copley medal to, 448 
Sagacity, animal, 461 
Sulifiable base. A new one, 303 
Salt to contaminate, 310 
Schoolcraft on native copper, 348 
Sea serpent. A terrific one, 454 
Seeds. Vegetating power of, 441 
Shark, female, 455 
Shipwreck, extraordinary, 458 
Shirt trees, 395 
Sierra Leone negotiation, 452 
Silver, to separate from copper, 235 
Shooting stars. Burney on, 22, 127, 198; 
Farey on, 183 
Shower bath. Murray’s, 806 
Snails. On shower of, 810, 457 
Solar eclipses, 34, 274 
South’s catalogue of stars. On, 442 
Sow. Cross breed from, 107 
Spade and plough husbandry, 461 
Standards of measure. On, 280, $35 
INDE X. 
Stark on Refraction, 431 
Stars. Catalogue of, 114, 867 
Stars, double. On catalogue of, 442 
Steevens on cartridges for sportsmen, 288 
Stoves. Improvement in heating by, $87 
Submerged mountain, 220 
Submerged village, 145 
Tanning. Improvement in, 812 
Tides. Extraordinary, 221 
Tofft’s blow-pipe. Appendage to, 401 
Tredgold’s refutation of Herepath’s 
theory, 130, 260 
Trigonometrical survey. On, 54 
Unicorn found in Africa, 148 
Ure on light, 13 
Utting’s nonagesimal tables, 188 
Vaccination, 222 
Veail’s Meteorological Tables, 79, 159, 
239, 319, 399, 472 
Volcano in the moon, 113; in the Isle 
of Bourbon, 222 
War poison. Humboldt on, 231 
Waiter. On compressibility of, 201 ; 
constituents of, 233 
Weather. On prognostics of, 22, 127, 
198 
Whales. A rapacious one, 454 
Wheat. Vegetating power of, 441] 
Wild ass. On the, ; 229 
Williams on apple and pear trees, 136 
Wines.. On managing, 254 
Young’s method of calculating atmosphe- 
rical Refraction. On, 161 
Zodiacal stars, 114, 367 
END OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH VOLUME. 
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