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INDEX. 



Dispersion of light, on the formula for 

 the, 116. 



Divergence of plants, 17. 



Doebereiner (Mo on several new com- 

 binations of platinum, 314,544. 



Dog, want of sagacity in a, 67. 



Donium, a new metal, 156; experi- 

 ments on, 255. 



Dufresnoy (M.), analysis of plomb- 

 gomme, 75. 



Eclipse, solar, of May 15, 1836, 73. 



Egerton (Sir P. G.) on the peculiari- 

 ties of structure in the cervical re- 

 gion of the ichthyosaurus, 500. 



Ehrenberg (Dr.), notice of his collec- 

 tions of dried Infusoria, and other 

 microscopic objects, 90; new disco- 

 very in pateontoiogy, 158, 392. 



Electricity : — on the conducting power 

 of certain flames and of heated air for, 

 176; difference between mechanical 

 and galvanic, 212; M. Nobili's dis- 

 coveries in, 234 ; electro-pulsations 

 and electro-momentuui, 132; voltaic, 

 due to chemical action, and not to 

 contact, 60 ; on the construction of 

 voltaic batteries, 283 ; new electro- 

 chemical pheenomena, 53 ; electro- 

 magnet, its feeble attraction for small 

 particles of iron, 72, 220, 287; elec- 

 tro-magnet and permanent magnet, 

 certain differences between, 81 ; con- 

 ducting power of iodine for, 450 ; re- 

 markable results of electro-magnetic 

 experiments, 452 , voltaic, 484. 



Entomology :— harvest-bug, 15; Apkro- 

 phora Goudoti, 139; lulus Seychella- 

 rum, Desj., 140; respiration of in- 

 sects, 532. 



Equations of the fifth degree, 28. 



Ethal, on, 154. 



Ettrick (VV.) on the solar eclipse of 

 May 15, 1836, and on the aurora bo- 

 realis of A[)ril 22, 73, 



Falconer (Dr.) on the Sivatherium gi- 

 ganteum, 193, 277. 



Faraday (Prof.) on a peculiar voltaic 

 condition of iron, 57, 122. 



Fermentation, vinous, acetous, and pu- 

 trefactive, 535. 



Fish, notes on various species of, 67, 

 139, 140, 352,391,490,507; mode 

 of preservation peculiarl}' adapted 

 for travellers over land, 391. 



Flames, chemical, spectra of, 3; galva- 

 nic, spectra of, 4 ; conducting power 

 of flames for electricity, 176. 



Fluorine, on, 107, 149; fluorine and 

 chlorine, combinations of chromium 

 with, 151. 



Forbes (Prof.) on the supposed origin 

 of the deficient rays in the solar 

 spectrum, 522. 



Fossils:— genera Pseudammonites and 

 Ichthyosiagoniles, 32 ; Sivatherium gi- 

 ganteum, 193, 277; fossil remains, 

 244, 35C, 354, 386, 490, 498 ; fossil 

 wood, 499 ; of the London clay, 462. 



Fox (R. W.) on the change in the che- 

 mical character of minerals induced 

 by galvanism, 228 ; on the formation 

 of mineral veins, 387. 



Fractions, vanishing, theory of, 18,92, 

 209. 



Functions, calculus of, on a paradox 

 in, 334, 443. 



Galvanism : — spectra of galvanic flames, 

 3 ; galvanic ])ile, its application to 

 chemical substances under the mi- 

 croscope, 1 3 ; difference between gal- 

 vanic and mechanical electricity, 212; 

 change in the chemical character of 

 minerals by, 228 ; new galvanic bat- 

 tery, 472. 



Garner (R.) on the anatomy of the la- 

 lamellibranchiate coiichiferous ani- 

 mals, 224. 



Gaseous interference, on, 324. 



Gastric juiceof dogs, composition of, 1 48. 



Glass-painting, on the art of", 456. 



Geological Society, 382, 489. 



Geology:— Mr. Hopkins's Researches 

 in Physical Geology, 4, 171, 366; 

 fossil genera Pseudammonites and Ich- 

 thyosiagonites, 32 ; carboniferous se- 

 ries of North America, 124, 407; 

 geology of Manchester, 157 ; Mr. 

 Hopkins's reply to Dr. Boase, 171 ; 

 the Sivatherium giganteum, 193,277; 

 on the limestones found in the vici- 

 nity of Manchester, 241,348 ; grants 

 of money for the advancement of 

 geology, 312; on the beds immedi- 

 ately above the chalk near London, 

 356; geology of Coalbrook Dale, 382; 

 formation of mineral veins, 387; on 

 the Silurian and other rocks of the 

 Dudley and Wolverhampton coal- 

 field, 48 9 ; on the part of Devonshire 

 between the Ex and Berry Head and 

 the coast and Dartmoor, 495 ; a no- 

 tice on Maria Island, 496 ; on the 

 occurrence of marine shells in abed 

 of gravel at Narley Bank, 497 ; on 

 the upper lias and marlstone of York- 

 shire, 497 ; tooth of a mastodon, 

 499 ; remarks on fossil woods, 499 ; 

 peculiarities of structure in the cer- 

 vical region of the ichthyosaurus, 

 500 ; on the coal-iields on the N.W. 



