INDliX TO VOL. V. 



/iCIDS: — acetic, from cinchona, 232; 

 amylic, 232 ; arsenic, combination of 

 with sugar, 232 ; boracic, decompo- 

 sition of, by hydrogen, 233 ; gallic, 

 1 49 ; hyposulphuric, 595 ; sulpho- 

 vinic, 22(j ; sulphuric, and alcohol, 

 mutual action of, 226. 



Alcohol and sulphuric acid, on the mu- 

 tual action of, 226. 



Alkali, vegetable, new, 151. 



Alps, Tyrolese, tertiary and secondary 

 rocks of, 401 . 



Anatomy : — of an Egyptian mummy, 

 57; of the brain, 278, 331 ; of the 

 foot of a Chinese female, 382. 



Anticlinal line of the London and 

 Hampshire basins, on the. 111. 



Antimonial wine and tartar-emetic, ef- 

 fects of light on, 309. 



Arsenic acid, combination of, with 

 sugar, 232. 



Ash timber of Earls Barton, Mr. Be- 

 van on, 51. 



Astronomy, 28, 91, 227, 274, 465. 



Aurora borcalis, 77, 153, 304. 



Azimuths and latitudes of two stations, 

 on deducing the longitude from, 24, 

 106. 



Baily (F.) on determining the length 

 of the simple pendulum, 97. 



Barcelona and Mont-Jouy, observations 

 on M. Nicollet's new calculation of 

 the latitudes of, 180. 



Barometer of the Horticultural Society, 

 236 ; differential barometer, 305. 



Barometrical observers, suggestions to, 

 155. 



Bassano, Mr. JNIurchison on the ter- 

 tiary and secondary rocks of, 401. 



Bat, common, 227. 



Bath, on the oolitic district of, 388. 



Beche (Dc la) on the geology of Nice, 

 134, 384. 



Ben-Nevis, geology of, 385. 

 Berzelius (Prof ), Dr. Thomson's re- 

 ply to, 217. 

 Bessel's pendulum experiments, 312. 

 Bcvan (15.) on the asli timber of Earls 

 Barton, 51 ; on the modulus of tor- 

 sion, 378. 

 Bigsby (Dr.) on the tojwgraphy and 

 geology of Lake Ontario, 1,81, -'C3, 

 339, 424. 



Birds of passage, table of the arrival 

 of, 196. 



Blackwall (J.) on aurora borealis, 153. 



Blainville's report on Dr. Foville's re- 

 searches on the anatomy of the brain, 

 278, 331. 



Books, new, 54, 57, 74, 76, 127, 237, 

 297, 312. 



Boracic acid, decomposition of, by hy- 

 drogen, 233. 



Bostock (Dr.) on the purification of 

 Thames-water, 442. 



Brain, Dr. Foville's researches on the 

 anatomy of the, 278, 331. 



Brande's " Chemistry," error in, 419. 



Bray ley (E. W.) on the existence of 

 salts of potash in brine-springs and 

 in rock-salt, 411. 



Brewster (Dr.) on the reflection and 

 decomposition of light, 380. 



Broughton (S. D.) on the effects of 

 oxygen on the animal system, 383. 



Buckland (Dr.) on a new species of 

 Pterodactyle ; on the fa;ces of the 

 Ichthyosaurus; and of a black sub- 

 stance resembling Sepia, 387. 



Building materials, action of the wea- 

 ther on, test for, 307. 



Burnett (Mr.) on the motion of sap in 

 plants, 389. 



Burney's (Dr.) meteorological obser- 

 vations, 78, 158, 238, 318, 398, 466. 



summary for the year 1828, 



312. 



Calton-Hill Observatory, longitude of, 

 257. 



Canoes, on the stability of, 301. 



Carbon in pig iron, 235. 



Cayley (Sir G.) on the natural zero, 88. 



Children's (.T. G.) abstract of Ochsen- 

 heimer's genera of the lepi(loi)tera of 

 Europe, 36, 119, 188, 287, 363. 



Chinese female, anatomical description 

 of tlie foot of one, 382. 



Chinese language, M. I'onceau on, 15. 



Christie (S. II.) on the deviation of 

 magnetized needles towards iron, 

 129; on magnetic influence in the 

 solar rays, 132. 



Cinchona, acetic acid from, 232. 



('ircle, perspective of a, 420. 



Coal discovered near Lcioeslcr, 347, 



Coal-gas, combustion of, I. 50, 375. 



