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INDEX. 



Gray (J. E.) on a curious habit of earth 

 worms, 159. 



Grooby (Rev. J.) on the passage of the 

 moon across the Pleiades in 1839, 177. 



Grote and Otto (M. M.) on valerianic 

 iEther, 74. 



Grove ( W. R.) on voltaic series and com- 

 bination of gases by platinum, 127 ; 

 on a new voltaic combination, 388. 



Guaquilite, composition of, 93. 



Gymnotus, on tlie character and direc- 

 tion of the electric force of the, 211. 



Hagen ( R. ), analysis of crystallized oli- 

 goclas, 398. 



Haggard (W. D.) on the capability of 

 Peiia silver for holding water, 218. 



Halliwell (J. O.) on a curious account 

 of the comet of 1472, 260. 



Hamilton (W. J.) on the geology of a 

 part of Asia Minor, 455, 510. 



Harlan (Dr.) on the discovery of the 

 Basilosaurusand Batrachiosaurus, 302. 



Keat, remarkable development of, ob- 

 served in masses of brine, 27 ; on the 

 evolution of, by thermo-electricity, 82. 



, animal, on a remarkable property 



of arteries considered as a cause of, 

 174. 



Heights, on the method of measuring by 

 boiling water, 179. 



Henderson ( Prof.) on the annular eclipse 

 of the sun, May 15, 1836, 229; on the 

 parallax of a Centauri, 316. 



Henwood (W. J.) on the expansive ac- 

 tion of steam in some of the pumping 

 engines on the Cornish mines, 481. 



Herschel (Sir J. F. W.), chemical ex- 

 amination of a specimen of native iron 

 from the Great Fish river in South 

 Africa, 32; letter to, from Prof. Bessel, 

 68, 226 ; on the art of photography, 

 365 ; on the suspected variability of a 

 Cassiopeies, 528. 



Hess (H.) on the composition of wax, 

 154; on the composition of idocrase, 

 476. 



Holditch (Mr.) on rolling curves, 152. 



Hopkins (T.) on the nature of malaria, 

 104. 



Hopkins (W.) on the state of the interior 

 of the earth, 52, 215 ; on the phaeno- 

 mena of precession and nutation, 364. 



Howlett (S. B.) on a compensating baro- 

 meter for meteorological purposes, 367. 



Hume (Sir A.), notice of the late, 379. 



Hydrocyanic acid, 186. 



Idocrase, on the composition of, 476. 



Inductometer, differential, description of, 



36. 

 Integration, note on definite double, 298. 

 Iodide of sodium, action of acids on, 

 398. 



Iron, composition of a new phosphate of, 

 474. 



, meteoric, from Potosi, 394. 



, native, chemical examination of a 



specimen of, 32. 



Iron ships, correction for the deviation of 

 the compass on, 497. 



Ivanor (M.) on the composition of ido- 

 ' erase, 476. 



Ivory (J.) on the equilibrium of fluids, 

 in reply to Prof. Sylvester, 37 ; on the 

 theory of astronomical refraction, 276, 

 342. 



J. B. on the polarized condition of pla- 

 tina electrodes, and on the theory of se- 

 condary piles, 446. 



J. S. W. on certain conditions under 

 which light is received from the hea- 

 venly bodies, 21. 



Jellicoe (C.) on the laws of mortality, 

 215. 



Johnston (Prof. J. F. W.) on the formu- 

 las representing chabasie, 46 ; on the 

 composition of some mineral substances 

 of organic origin, 87 ; on the constitu- 

 tion of the resins, 340, 492; on a new 

 equi-atomic compound of bicyanide 

 with binoxide of mercury, 492. 



Juben (H. M.) on meteoric iron from 

 Potosi, 394. 



Kampen (M. Van), notice of the late, 

 293. 



Kane (Prof. R.) on the theory of the 

 aethers, 163. 



Knight (J. A.), notice of the late, 59. 



Kuhlmann (M.) on the action of spongy 

 platina, 157. 



Lacaille's stations at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, on the position of, 522. 



Langlois (M.) on the non-existence of 

 the carbonates of quina and cinchonia, 

 392. 



Lassell ( Mr.) on a small sextant, 230. 



Latanium, account of, 390. 



Lepidolite, rose mica, composition of, 

 393. 



Lhotsky (Dr. F.) on a mineral spring, 

 Menero Downs, 300. 



Liebig (M. T. ) on the action of acids on 

 the iodide of sodium, 398. 



Light, on certain conditions under which 

 it is received from the heavenly bodies, 

 21 ; researches in the undulatory theory 

 of, 1 69, 321 ; observations on the theory 

 of the dispersion of, 96 1 ; application of 

 the chemical rays of, to pictorial repre- 

 sentation, 365 ; of incandescent coke, 

 application of the, to photography, 475. 



and air, effects of, in restoring faded 



colours, 416. 



, electrical, phosphorescent power 



of, 391. 



