476 



I N D E X. 



Sefractlm. Readc on, 249 ; Ivory on, 

 311 ; Stark on, 431 



Respiration. Apparatus for restoring, SJ76 

 Rete inucosum of the Negro. On, 31, 140 

 Riddle's victlwd of determining latitude. 

 On, 40, i03, "^00; On nautical as- 

 tronomy, 321 

 Rogerson on glow-worm, 53 

 Rolling jKndulum, On, 417 

 Rose of Jericho. On, 36~0 

 Roi/al Institution, Cormvall, 302 

 Roi/al Society, 60, 142, 447 

 Rnyul Societ!/ of Literature, 64 

 Sahine, (E.) Copley medal to, 448 

 Sagucitt/, animal, 461 

 Salifiable base. A new one, 308 

 Salt to contaminate, 310 

 Schoolcraft on native copper, 348 

 Sea serpent. A terrific one, 454 

 Seeds. Vegetating power of, 441 

 Shark, female, 455 

 Shipwreck, extraordinar)-, 458 

 Shirt trees, 395 

 Sierra Leone negotiation, 452 

 Silver, to separate from copper, 235 

 Shooting stars. Burncyon, 22, 127, 198; 

 Farey on, 183 

 Shower bath. Murray's, 306 

 SnaiJs. On sliower of, 810, 457 

 Solar eclipses, 34, 274 

 South's catalogue of stars. On, 442 

 Saw. Cross breed from, 107 

 Spade and plough husbandry, 461 

 Standards of measure. On, 280, 835 



Stark on Refraction, 431 



Stars. Catalogue of, 114,367 



Stars, double. On catalogue of, 442 

 Steevetis on cartridges for sportsmen, 288 

 Stoves. Improvement in heating by, 387 

 Submerged mountain, 220 



Submerged vUlage, 145 



Tanning. Improvement in, 312 



Tid-'s. Extraordinary, 221 



Toffl's bloiv-pipc. Appendage to, 401 

 Tredguld's refutation of Herepath's 



theory, 130, 260 



Trigonometrical survey. On, 54 



Unicom found in Africa, 148 



Ure on light, 13 



Vtting's nonagesimal tables, 188 



Vaccination, 222 



Veall's Meteorological Tables, 79, 159, 

 239, 319, 399, 472 

 Volcano in the moon, 113; in tlie Isle 



of Bourbon, 222 



War poison. Humltoldt on, 231 



Water. On compressibility of, 201 ; 



constituents of, 233 



Weather. On prognostics of, 22, 127, 

 198 

 Whales, A rapacious one, 454 



Wlieat. Vegetating power of, 441 



W'dd ass. On the, 229 



Williams on apple and pear trees, 136 

 Wines. On managing, 254 



Yoking' s method of aaladating atmosjihe- 



rical Refraction. On, 161 



Zodiacal stars, 114,367 



£ND OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH VOLUME. 





J'nnled by li. and yl. Taylor, Shoe Lane. 



