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Gi!o!ogy: — on mineral veins, 17 ; on 

 the bituminous schist and fossil 

 fish of Secfeld, 36; on the tertiary 

 and secondary rocks of Bassano, 

 55; on the tertiary deposits of the 

 Cantal, 58 ; fossil faeces, 60 ; on 

 the valley of the Thames, 61 ; on 

 brine springs and rock salt of 

 North America, and on the forma- 

 tion of new red sandstone, 71 ; 

 equivalent formation, in England, 

 of the saliferous rock of North 

 America, 7.5; destruction of the 

 cave of Kiihloch, 92; list of plants 

 which characterize the secondary 

 and tertiary formations, 133; on 

 the occurrence of agates in the 

 Mendip Hills, 136; on the ter- 

 tiary freshwater formations of Aix, 

 137 ; British fossil shells 149 ; on 

 secondary stratified rocks, 213; 

 discovery of fossil bones in a 

 marl-pit, near North Cliff, 225; 

 on the excavation of valleys, 241 ; 

 classification of European rocks, 

 440. 



Geological Society, 55, 136. 



Greenwich, on the system of prize 

 chronometers at, 424. 



Gray (J. E.) on the genera of bat, 28. 



Iladley's sextant, 84, 181. 



Hall's discovery of achromatic tele- 

 scopes, queries respecting, 233. 



Hare (Dr.) on the sliding-rod eudio- 

 meter and the volumescope, 114, 

 171. 



Hassler's plans, &c. for a survey of 

 the coast of the United States, 

 Prof. Bessel on, 401. 



Haworth (A. H.) on Epipliyllum, 

 107 ; new account of Kalanchoe, 

 301 ; Prof. Schultes on, 432. 



Haytor, ammonites in calcedony 

 from, 315. 



Hcnnell (H.) on the mutual action 

 of sulphuric acid and alcohol, and 

 the process by which aether is 

 formed, 342. 



Henry (M.) on bromides, 142; ou 

 urea, 312. 



Horticultural Society's Garden,Prof. 

 Schultes's description of, 428. 



Hydrocyanic acid, action of sulphu- 

 ric and muriatic acid upon, 3 1 5. 



.1. S. on generic names in natural 

 history, 34S. 



Indigo, sulphate of, action of aether 



on, 393. 

 Ink, indelible, 141. 

 Iodide and chloride cfammonia, 147. 

 Iodine, 'discovery of, in stilt springs, 



&c. in England, 235, 28:! ; atomic 



weight of, 237. 

 Iron, perbromide of, 142 ; silicate of, 



147; arseniate of, 314. 

 Ivory (J.) remarks on an article in 



the Bulletin des Scieticrs, 272. 

 Kalanchoe, new account of, 301. 

 Kiihloch, destruction of the Cave of, 



92. 

 Laplace (.iVIarq. de), historical eloge 



on, 370. 

 Lead, carbazotateii of, 145. 

 Lepidoptera of Europe, Ochsenhei- 



mer's genera otj 9,99, 188,286, 



325, 451. 

 Linnean Society, 1 35 ; Herbarium, 



353. 

 Liquor, fuming, 76. 

 Lubbock (J. W.) on curves of the 



second order, 249. 

 Lyell and jMurchison on the ter- 

 tiary deposits of the Cantal, 58. 

 MacLeay's (W. S.) examination of 



Mr. Bicheno's paper on Systems 



and Methods in natural histoiy, 



199. 

 Magnesium, bromide of, 143. 

 Mainspring (Caleb) on the system of 



prize chrononjetcrs at Greenwich, 



424. 

 Major's (Mr.) analysis of British and 



foreign ships of war, 41, 9 4. 

 Manganese, purification of oxide of, 



77 ; Mr. R. Phillips on the oxides 



of, 281. 

 Mercury:-protobromide of, 144; per- 

 bromide of, 144 ; cyanide of 145; 



the atomic weight of, 166; Orfila 



on Smithson's mode of detecting, 



394. 

 Metals, decomposition of ammonia 



by, 147. 

 Meteorological results for 1827, 



156. 

 Meteorological table of observations 



for May, 80; June, 160; July 



240; August, 320; September, 



399; October, 407. 

 Meteorology, 78, 1 56, 238, 318,397. 



465. 

 Microscopical observations, 153,161. 



