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INDEX. 



Diving-bell, used in raising the stores 

 of the Thetis, 363, 367. 



Dog, wild, description of, 62, 378. 



Dollond (G.) on a concave achromatic 

 lens adapted to the wired micro- 

 meter, 364. 



Don (D.) on some British ferns, 310. 



Dynamics, on a general method in, 

 436. 



Earnshaw (S.) on Prof. Moseley's prin- 

 ciple of least pressure, 89, 271 ; re- 

 ply to, 194, 420. 



Electric currents, new instrument for 

 measuring, 293. 



Electricity, recent discoveries in, 291; 

 on certain phenomena of, 340; on 

 some elementary laws of, 436. 



Elevation, on the parallelism of con- 

 temporaneous lines of, 404. 



Eulima, notes on the genus, 458. 



Eye, on the blood-vessels of the, 115, 

 354; influence of successive impulses 

 of li&rht on, 241 ; on the vascular 

 spectrum of the, 262. 



Eyes of animals, on the, 14. 



Faraday's ( Prof.) discoveries in mag- 

 neto-electric induction, on, 1 1 ; re- 

 cent discoveries in electricity, 291. 



Ferns, on the structure of, 253 ; re- 

 marks on some British, 310. 



Fielding (G. H. ) on the structure of 

 the eyes of animals, 14. 



Fishes, collection of from Madeira, 380. 



Fitton's (Dr.) notice on the section of 

 the coast near Hastings, 49. 



Forbes (Prof.) on the vibrations of 

 heated metals, 15, 182. 



Forests, subterranean, 282. 



Forster's (Capt.) pendulum experi- 

 ments, on, 230. 



Fossil remains, discovery of in the 

 limestone near Edinburgh, 77. 



Fox (It. W.) on an instrument for 

 ascertaining various properties of ter- 

 restrial magnetism, 81. 



Freshwater formation in the Pyrenees, 

 on a, 376. 



Gaging, on the art of, 326. 



Gases, disengaged from springs at Bath, 

 on, 221, 225; action of on vegeta- 

 tion, 316; on Mr. Graham's law of 

 the diffusion of, 321. 



Geoffroy-St.-Hilaire (M.) on the abdo- 

 minal glands of OrnUhurhynchus, 54. 



Geological Society, 48, 147, 225, 370, 

 441 ; anniversary address, 442. 



Geology, report on the science of, 427. 



Giesecke (Sir C), notice of, 445. 



Gopher-wood of the Scriptures, on the, 

 178, 280. 



Graham (T.) reply to Mr. Phillips on 

 the use of chemical symbols, 106, 



402; Mr. Phillips's answer, 246; 

 on the law of the diffusion of gases, 

 321. 

 Gray (Mr.) on the reproduction of Cir- 

 rhipeda, 65. 



Greenough's (G. B.) address to the 

 Geological Society, 442. 



Griffiths (Mrs.) on the vision of the 



retina, 43. 

 Hamilton (W. R.) on a general me- 

 thod in dynamics, 436. 



Hancock (Dr.) on heat lightning, 340. 



Harris (W. S. ) on some elementary 

 laws of electricity, 436. 



Hastings, on the geology of the coast 

 near, 49. 



Heat, its action on iodide of amidine, 

 238. 



Henvvood (W. J.) on certain meteoro- 

 logical phenomena, 103 ; on the 

 cause of, 233. 



Herschel (Sir J. F. W.), observations 

 of nebulae and clusters of stars, 1 25 ; 

 on the satellites of Uranus, 381. 



Hieroglyphics, on Egyptian, 170. 



Hodgson (B. H.) on the wild dog of 

 Nepal, 62. 



Hogg (J.) on the influence of the cli- 

 mate of Naples on vegetation, 274. 



Holderness, ancient forest of, 282. 



Hopkins (Mr.) on the geology of Der- 

 byshire, 66. 



Horner (W. G.) on the Dsedaleum, 36; 

 on the vascular spectrum, 262. 



Hussey's (Rev. T. J.) catalogue of 

 comets, 29, 205, 349. 



Hyperiodic acid, and hyperiodates, 386. 



Ice, on a rhombohedral crystallization 

 of, 245. 



Indigo, analysis of, 313. 



Indus, on the geology of the banks of 

 the, 225. 



Ingleborough, on the trigonometrical 

 height of, 163. 



Insects, on the metamorphosis of, 381. 



Iodides, metallic, action of chlorine on, 

 467. 



Iodine, its action on starch, 313. 



Iodous acid, 392. 



Jupiter, researches into the mass of, 383. 



Kangaroo, notes on the, 304; on the 

 generation of the, 438. 



Keith ( Rev. P.) on the external struc- 

 ture of imperfect plants, 252. 



Kenrick ( Rev. J.) on the alleged Greek 

 traditions of the deluge, 414. 



Kreosote, on, 390. 



Lactic acid, on, 233. 



Lawrence, St., on the geology of the 

 river and gulph of, 51. 



Lead, crystallization of sulphuret of, 

 388. 



