422 



INDEX. 



De Kay's report on the Natural History 

 of New York, 188. 



De Moleyns on powerful voltaic com- 

 bination, 358. 



De Vico, astronomical observations at 



Ro 



me 



373. 



Dewey, C, on the striae and furrows of 



polished rocks, 146. 

 Diluvial scratches, 2! )6 . 

 Dove, H W., on the law of storms. 315 



Dr. Hares strictures upon, 137. 



reply to by Mr. Red- 



field, 384. 

 Draper, J W., discovery of latent light, 

 and of spectral appearances connected 

 with photography, 202. 



edition of Kane's Elements 

 of Chemistry, 192. 



E. 



Earthquakes in the United States, 419. 



West Indies, 419. 

 Eclipse, solar, of July 8, 1842, 211, 

 Electrical currents, passage of two or 

 more over the same conductor, 418. 



fish, discovery of, 213 

 Elements, atomic weights of, 215. 

 Embankments and mounds in Wiscon- 

 sin, 21. 



End lienor's Mantissa Botanica, 198. 



Entomological Society of Pennsylvania, 

 199. 



Espy's meteorological enterprise, 212. 



Exploring Expedition, United States, ac- 

 count of, 393. 



F. 



Fish beds, new, in New Jersey, 134. 



electrical, discovery of, 213. 

 Flagstones, undulated, $84. 

 Flora of North America, Torrey and 



Gray's, 420. 

 Fogs, formation of, 40. 



on the Mississippi River, 43. 



Sir H. Davy's theory of, 41. 

 Foot-marks on rocks, 200. 

 Foot-print, fossil, 135. 

 Forry's Climate of the United States, 

 193. 



Fossil animal, bones of, described, 69. 



birds in New Holland, 417. 

 bones, human, 277. 

 foot-mark in New Jersey, 135. 

 footsteps, 370. 

 mammalia, Mr. Owen's letter on, 



341. 



remains in diluvium, 300. 



shells, 289, 292, 299. 



wood in diluvium, 302. 



Freezing cavern of Illetzkaya Zatchita, 

 206. 



Fucoides described, 290. 

 Furrows and stria of polished rocks. 146. 



diluvial, 296. 



G. 



Gambir, cultivation of, in Singapore, 156. 



Garden, A. A., letter to Dr. Golden, 132. 



Gardner, D. P., medico-legal application 

 of Riench's test for arsenic, 240. 



Gases, Regnault's researches on the dila- 

 tation of, 63. 



Geology of Connecticut, report on, 187. 



of Tarapaca, 1. 



suburban, of Richmond, Indi- 

 ana, 281. 



Glaciers the cause of grooved and pol- 

 ished rocks, 148. 



Gray, A., bibliographical notices, 195. 



t selections from the scientific 



correspondence of Dr. Colden, 85. 



I translation of Martius 1 notice of 



the life and labors of De Candolle, 217. 



Gronovius, J. F., correspondence with 

 Dr. Colden, 86. 



Grooves, diluvial, 296. 



H. 



Hematoxylin, description of, 357. 

 Hare, R., refutation of the amphide salts, 



192. 



strictures on Prof. Dove's es- 

 say " on the law of storms," 137. 



replied to, by Mr. Redfield, 384. 

 Harlan, R., description of the bones of a 

 new fossil animal, 69. 



Mr. Owen's remarks on his 

 notice of new fossil mammalia, 341. 

 Hayden, C. B., analysis of Scott spring, 

 Va., 409. 



on the rock salt and salines 



of the Holston, 173. 

 Helianthus Dowellianus, 82. 

 Herrick, E. C , meteoric observations of 



Aug. 10, 1842, 208. 



in December, 1842, 210. 



in November, 209. 

 Herschel, Sir J., on the freezing cave of 



Illetzkaya Zatchita, 206. 

 Heulandite, a mineral of New Jersey , 59. 

 Hildreth, S. P., meteorological journal 



at Marietta, Ohio, 347. 

 Hodgkinson, on the strength of stones 



and other materials, 168. 

 Holston River, rock salt and salines of, 



173. 



Hooker's British Flora, 199. 

 Hurricanes, phenomena of, 329. 

 Hydrosulphuric acid in water, 310. 

 Hypericum Buckleii, 80. 



I. 



Illetzkaya Zatchita, freezing cavern of, 



Infusorial stratum, new locality of, «WJ. 



Ink, antediluvian, 287. 



Iron, sulphuret, nodules of, 312. 



action of air and water on, 355* 



Ivorv. fossil. 301. 



