- 596 
E., W. B. Note on Mr. Challis’s paper 
_. on capillary attraction, 172. 
Earthquake of Chili, 74, 148. 
Earthquake waves, their effects on the 
coasts of the Pacific, 181. 
Eclipse, solar, 293, 589, 590. 
Edmonds (R.) on the mirage, 169. 
Education, scientific and general, 432. 
Egerton (Sir P. G.), catalogue of fossil 
fish, 367. 
Elastic bodies, on the collision of, 65. 
Electricity, 114, 130, 400, 421, 455, 
550. 
Electro-chemical theory of Sir H. Davy, 
subsidiary hypothesis to, 170. 
Electro-magnetic rotation, 521. 
Entomology :—on the compound eyes of 
insects, 202; on the yellow fly, 347; 
Samouelle’sUseful Compendium, 412; 
undescribed species of Araneid@, 481. 
Equations, congeneric surd, 43; alge- 
braic, 402; of the fifth degree, 538. 
Equinoctial gales, on the, 187. 
Eye:—of the Sepia Loligo, 1; crystal- 
line lens, 193, 195, 416; on the com- 
pound eyes of insects, 202. 
F. W. Optical experiment, 168. 
Faraday (Prof.), researches in electri- 
city, 114; Royal Medal awarded to, 
150; on the magnetic relations and 
characters of the metals, 179; ona 
supposed new sulphate and oxide of 
antimony, 476; on the condensation 
of the gases, in reply to Dr. Davy, 521. 
Fever, use of chloride of soda in, 64. 
Fishes, on the fossil beaks of four ex- 
tinct species of, 4; fossil, 72, 366. 
Flamsteed and Newton, 139, 211, 218, 
225. 
Fluids, molecular forces of, 89. 
Forbes (Prof.) on the undulatory theory 
of heat, 246; the Keith prize awarded 
to, 424; on the mathematical form of 
the Gothic pendent, 449; on the tem- 
peratures of certain hot springs, and 
on the verification of thermometers, 
551. 
Fossils:—beaks of the Chimera, 4; 
fishes, 72; catalogue of fossil fish, 
366; vertebre of fish, 557; vegetable 
remains, 574. 
Fox (C.) on the construction of skew 
arches, 299. 
Fox (R. W.) on the magnetic forces, 
108. 
Fractions, vanishing, 295, 398, 515. 
Fresnel’'s law of double refraction, 104, 
248. 
Galloway (T.) on the solar eclipse, 
May 15, 589. 
INDEX. 
Gases, specific heats of, 21; condensa- 
tion of, 521. 
Gentianeea, descriptions of Indian, 
75. 
Geological Society, 71, 156, 310. 
Geology :—on the fossil beaks of four 
species of Chimera, 4; geology of 
West Norfolk, 28; discovery of fossil 
fishes in the new red sandstone, 72; 
on the gradual sinking of the west 
coast of Greenland, 73; earthquake 
of Chili, 74; on the crag formation, 
38, 138, 529; notes made during a 
survey of the east and west coasts of 
S. America, 156; effects produced 
at Valparaiso by the earthquake of 
Nov. 1822, 159; effects of earthquake 
waves on the coasts of the Pacific, 
181; on physical geology, 227, 272, 
357; anniversary proceedings of the 
Geological Society, 310; catalogue 
of fossil fish, 366; geological rela- 
tions of certain hot springs, 551; 
geology of Denmark, 553; occur- 
rence of fossil vertebrz of fish in the 
loess of the Rhine, 557; selenite in 
the sands of the plastic clay, 558; 
transportation of rocks by ice, 558; 
syenite veins which traverse the mica 
slate of Antrim, 559; geological 
structure of Pembrokeshire, 561; 
origin of the terms Silurian and 
Cambrian systems, 561; on the gravel 
and alluvia of S. Wales and Siluria, 
566; ona patch of red and variegated 
marls, 571; on the streams of sea 
water in the island of Cephalonia, 
573; on the caves of Ballybunian, 
547; fossil vegetable remains, 574; 
remains of mammalia found in the 
Sewalik mountains, 575; fossil re- 
mains of Saurian animals, 577; on 
the ossiferous cavern of Yealm Bridge, 
579. 
German silver, analysis of, 80. 
Germination, conditions of, 491. 
Gibraltar Scientific Society, 256. 
Gothic pendent, on the, 449. 
Gradients on railways, 51, 97, 243. 
Grant (T. T.) on protecting iron from 
the action of salt water, 128. 
Graves (Dr.) on the use of chloride of 
soda in fever, 64. 
Graves (J. T.) on the logarithms of 
unity, 281. 
Grecian buildings, on the entablature of, 
430. 
Greenland, on the gradual sinking of 
part of the west coast of, 73. 
Griffith (R.) on the syenite veins which 
