INDEX TO VOL. I. 



Abel (Dr. C.) on the Sumatran 

 Orang Outang, 213. 



Abraham, (J. H.) on magnetic and 

 electric influence, 266. 



Acetates of mercury, 73. 



Acid, nitric, composition of, 312. 



cyanic, 72. 



Acids in castor oil, 313. 



African expedition, 74. 



Airy's (Prof.) reply to Mr. Ivory's re- 

 marks on tlie attraction of spheroids, 

 442. 



Alkaline chlorides, action of, as disin- 

 fecting substances, 232. 



Ant, black, hybernation of, 314. 



Arsenic, chloride of, 470. 



Assam, rivers of, 151. 



Astronomical observations, Lieut. 

 Beaufoy's, 46, 219, 290. 



Astronomy, 19, 28, 46, 47, 55, 69, 81, 

 140, 212, 219, 290, 291, 310, 315, 

 324, 390. 



Atmosphere, finite extent of, 107. 



Attraction, capillary, 115, 332. 



Aurora borealis, 317. 



Babbage's logarithms, 471. 



Baily's (F.) list of moon -culminat- 

 ing stars for 1827, 47 ; on &ome new 

 tables for determining the apparent 

 places of the Greenwich stars, SI. 



Barometrical registers, formulae for 

 reducing, 15. 



Bath, mode of heating water for, 104. 



Beaufoy's (Lieut.) astronomical ob- 

 servations, 46, 219, 290. 



Bevan, ( B. ) on the cohesion of cast- 

 iron, 14. 



Birdsof Mexico, synopsis of tliem, 364, 

 433. 



Bismuth cobalt ore, 145. 



Bleaching flax, method of, 119. 



Blood, Dr. Spurgin on the nature and 

 properties of, 199, 370, 418. 



Books, new, 76, 152, 223, 291, 315, 

 379, 47.3. 



Boron, chloride of, 169. 



Botany, 120, 271. 



Bromine, 231, 395 ; compound nature 

 of, 232 ; cyanuret of, 396. 



Bullock, (Messrs.) birds discovered in 

 Mexico by them, 364, 433. 



Burney's (Dr.) results of the meteoro- 

 logical observations at Wick, 339. 



Capillary attraction, 115, 332. 



Carbon, oxide of, 71. 



C^ast-iron, strengtli of, 1 4. 



Castor oil, acids in, 313. 



Cerium, sulphurct of, 71. 



Chemistry, 31, 71, 72, 73, 94, 110, 142, 

 143, 144, 145, 146, 172, 190, 232, 

 312, 313, 314, 321, 376, 379. 



Chloride of arsenic, 470; of boron, 

 469. 



Chlorides of lime and soda, Mr. R. 

 Phillips on, 376. 



Chlorine in native black oxide of 

 manganese, 142. 



Chromate of silver, 345. 



Chrome, 452. 



Cobalt ore, bismuthic, 145. 



Comet at Paramatta, observations on, 

 315. 



Copper mines in Cornwall, produce of, 

 233. 



Cornwall, copper mines in, produce of, 

 233. 



■ — steam-engines in, account of, 



233. 



Crystallization, new theory of, 397. 



Cyanic acid, 72. 



Cyanuret of bromine, 396. 



Davy, (Sir H.) on electrical and 

 chemical changes, SI, 94, 190. 



Diamond, origin of, 147. 



Disinfecting properties of alkaline 

 chlorides, 232. 



Dyeing drugs, 55. 



Elaine, separation of from oils, 71. 



Electric and magnetic influence, Mr. 

 Abraham on, 266. 



Electricity, 20, 31, 94, 190, 266, 343. 



Emmett, (J. B. ) on capillary attraction, 

 115, 332; method of bleaching and 

 preparing flax, 119; physical con- 

 struction of solids and liquids, 411. 



Entomology, 180, 291. 



Epistilbite and heulandite, Mr. Levy 

 on, 6. 



Ethers, action of, on various bodies,469. 



Flax, method of bleaching and prepar- 

 ing, 119. 



Fluor spar, 73 ; phosphorescent, 143. 



Foster, (Lieut.) and Parry, (Capt.) on 

 the velocity of sound at Port Bowen, 

 12. 



Foster's (B. M.) description of a pla- 

 netarium on a new principle, 310. 



Fustic, its application in dyeing, 55. 



Galbraith, (W.) on Capt. Parry's and 

 Lieut. Foster's experiments for as- 

 certaining the velocity of sound at 

 Port Bowen, 1 36 ; on the velocity 

 of sound, 336. 



Gaylussite, Mr. W. Phillips on, 263. 



Geology, 66, 136, 145, 147, 223, 229, 

 277, 346, 387,426. 



