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INDEX. 



Riench's test for arsenic, medico-legal appli- 

 cation of, 240. 



Rogers, H. D. and W. B., on the Appala- 

 chian chain, 359. 



S. 



Salines of the Holston River, Virginia, 173. 

 Salisbury, E. E., translation of Dr. Lund's 



letter on fossil human bones, 277. 

 Salt steppe, south of Orenburg, 205. 

 Saturn, observations on at Rome, 383. 

 Schnederman, on a double sulphite of the 



protoxide of platinum and soda, 274. 

 Schoolcraft, H., on North American lakes, 



368. 

 Schunk on hsematoxylin, 357. 

 Scott Spring, Va., analysis of, 409. 

 Shooting stars seen in the day time, 418. 

 Shower of blood and muscle, corrected, 216. 

 Silliman, B. jun., description of a carbon 



voltaic battery, 180. 

 Silurian System, Murchison's, 193. 

 Silver mines of Tarapaca, 8. 

 Singapore, climate and productions of, 151. 

 Smith, J. L., on the action of potash upon 



cholesterine, 60. 



notice of Regnault's researches 

 upon the dilatation of gases, 63. 

 Snake, fossil bones of, 285. 

 Soda and platinum, double sulphite of the 

 protoxide of, 270. 



nitrate of, occurring in Tarapaca, 5. 

 Soil, constituents of, 311, 352. 

 Solar eclipse of July 8, 1842, 211. 



spectra, new properties of, 163, 164. 

 Spectral appearances connected with pho- 

 tography, 204. 



Specula for telescopes, improvements in,166 

 Spencer, A., vindication of claims to inven- 

 tions and improvements in the graphic art, 

 appendix to No. 1. 



Spring's monograph of the Lycopodiaceae,196. 

 Stars, shooting, observations on, 208, 209,210. 



seen in the day time, 418. 

 Stellite, found in New Jersey, 54. 

 Stilbite, occurring in New Jersey, 59. 



Storer, D. H., discovery of an electrical fish, 

 213. 



Storms, Dove's essay on the law of, 315. 



Dr. Hare's strictures upon, 137. 



reply to by Mr Redfield, 334 

 rules for avoidi ng, 333. 



Striae and furrows of polished rocks* 146. 



diluvial, 296. 



Sugar in the stalks of maize, 215. 



T. 



Talbot, on improvements in the telescope, 

 166. 



Tarapaca, geological and miscellaneous no- 

 tice of, 1. 



Taylor, J., on astronomy and photography at 

 Rome, 373. 



S., description of the earth-works in 

 Wisconsin, 21. 



Telescope, improvement in, 166. 



Temperature of places, methods of obtain- 

 ing, 50. 



Thermometer, employed in rinding the 

 height of mountains, &c. f 12. 



Thermopsis Caroliniana, 80. 



fraxinifolia, 81. 



Thracia inequalis, 420. 



Torpedo nobi liana, notice of, 213. 



Torrey and Gray's North American Flora, 

 420. 



Trappean minerals in New Jersey and New 

 York, 54. 



Travelli, J. S., on the climate and produc- 

 tions of Singapore, 151. 



Trilobite, new, 346. 



Troost, Dr., shower of blood and muscle, 

 corrected, 216. 



Tumuli, animal-shaped, in Wisconsin, 21. 



in Indiana, 313. 



Tuomey, M., on a new locality of infusorial 

 animalculae, 339. 



Turner's Chemistry, seventh edition, 189. 



Undulatory theory as applied to the solar 



spectrum, 164. 

 United States Exploring Expedition, account 



of its doings, 393. 



V. 



Vaccinium ursinum, 82. 

 Variation of the magnetic needle, 314. 

 Venus, observations on, at Rome, 377. 

 Vernier applied to the subdivision of time, 



161. 

 Voltaic battery, carbon, description of, 180. 



of great power, 357. 



W. 



9 



Water, containing lime and magnesia, 306, 



hydrosulphuric acid in, 310. 

 Waves, classification of, 159. 

 Western states, geological features of, 365, 

 Whewell, Prof, on mineralogical systems, 



214. 

 Whirlwinds, phenomena of, 329, 384. 

 Wisconsin, earth-works of % 21. 

 Wood, fossil, in diluvium, 302. 



z. 



Zygodon, skeleton of, discovered in Alaba- 

 ma, 409. 



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