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INDEX. 



Rudberg (M.) on the dispersion of 

 Ught, 401. 



Rumball (J. R.) on tlie focus of vi- 

 sion, 376. 



Sabine's (Capt.) pendulum observa- 

 tions, Mr. Henderson's remarks on, 

 124; his reply to, 176; corrections 

 of the pendulum, 143. 



Saliva, sulphocyanuret of potassium in, 

 315. 



Salt obtained from opiura, 231. 



Salts more soluble in hot than in cold 

 water, exceptions to this law, 20. 



Saurian reptiles, synopsis of the genera 

 of, 54, 207. 



Screws, Mr. Bevan on the adhesion of, 

 291. 



Selenium, separation of, from sulphur, 

 390. 



Shells, fossil, M. B. de Basterot's ob- 

 servations on, 102. 



Ships, plan for mooring in roadsteads, 

 110, 289. 



Silver and gold'raised atGuanaxuato,7 1 . 



Snakes, Mr. Nash on the fascination 

 of, 313. 



Societies, learned : Royal Society, 66, 

 142, 215, 449 ; Linnean Society, 

 146,449; Geological Society, 147, 

 217, 450; Astronomical Society, 

 148, 222; Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain, 67; Royal Academy of 

 Sciences at Paris, 305,385; Medico- 

 Botanical Society, 385 ; Royal Geo- 

 logical Society of Cornwall, 457 ; 

 Scientific Bodies of London, calendar 

 of the Meetings for 1827—8, 400. 



Soda-liquid, disinfecting, 387. 



Solar eclipse of Nov. 29, 1826, on, 76, 

 150. 



Solubility of salts, 20. 



Spathose iron, analysis of, 231. 



Spurgin (Dr.) on the nature and pro- 

 perties of the blood, 183, 247. 



Squire (Tho.) on the semi-arcs of vi- 

 bration of a clock, 34 ; on the sola 

 eclipse of Nov. 29, 1826, 76. 



Stavesacre, new acid in, 232. 



Steam-engines, duty of, 309. 



Stearic acid from wax, 390. 



Steininger, Noeggerath, and Chladni, 

 on the meteoric iron of Bitburg, 41. 



Sternbergite, a new mineral species, 

 461. 



Stokes (H.) on new double chromates, 

 427. 



Succulent plants, new, 344. 



Sugar, in the flowers of Rhododendron 

 Ponticum, 464. 



Sulphur, separation of selenium from, 

 390. 



Sulphuric acid and fluor spar, 68. 



Sussex, organic remains of, 394 ; geo- 

 logy of, 439. 



Taylor's (John) description of a rain- 

 gauge, 406. 



Taylor (R. C.) on the embankments 

 formed against the German Ocean 

 on the Norfolk and Suffolk coast, 

 295; on the eastern coast of England, 

 327. 



Teredo navalis, oeconomy of, 235 ; Mr. 

 Gray's monograph of the genus Te- 

 redo, 409. 



Triangles, plane, symmetrical proper, 

 ties of, 26. 



Uralian platina, new metals in, 391. 



Varvinsky, (Mr.) on iodine aud fluo- 

 silicic acia, 426. 



Volcanos of Guatemala, 117. 



Walchner's (Dr.) reply to Mr. Wm. 

 Phillips's remarks on the hyaloside- 

 rite, 179; analysis of allophane, 310. 



Water, heat evolved by compressing, 

 392. 



Wax, stearic acid from, 390. 



Woolrich (J.) on the use of chlorine 

 in destroying fire-damp, 309. 



Writing-ink, on. 111; indelible, 393. 



Yarrell (W.) on the change of the 

 plumage of hen-pheasants, 66. 



Yorkshire, Mr. John Phillips on the 

 diluvial currents of, 138. 



Zanthopicrite, a new vegetable colour- 

 ing principle, 69. 



Zoology, 54, 66, 126, 207, 313. 



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