INDEX. 



549 



Lima, measurements of altitudes in the 



vicinity of, 26S. 

 Lime, method of distinguishing from 



barytes and strontian, 78. 

 Lindley (Prof. J.) on the anatomy of the 



roots of Ophrydea>, 462. 

 Linnaean Society, proceedings of, 369, 



461. 

 Lisbon, geology of the neighbourhood of, 



307. 

 Lithia and potash contained in mica, 395. 

 Lochaber, on tlie parallel roads of, 361. 

 Locke (Dr. J.) on the magnetic intensity 

 and dip for certain positions in Ohio, 

 535. 

 Lijwig (C.) on the separation of ethyle, 



542. 

 Longitude, method of determining, by 



moon-culminating stars, 521. 

 Lyell (C.) on the occurrence of grapto- 

 lites in the slate of Galloway, Scotland, 

 307 ; on the occurrence of numerous 

 swallow-holes near Farnham, 509. 

 Maclean (J.), meteorological observa- 

 tions made by, during voyages in the 

 Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans, 

 268. 

 Maclear (T.) on a fall of meteorites in 

 South Africa, 231 ; on the position of 

 Lacaille's stations at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 522. 

 Magnetic intensity and dip, determina- 

 tion of, for certain positions in Ohio, 

 535. 

 — — lines of no dip and of least inten- 

 sity, comparison of, 81. 

 relations and characters of the me- 

 tals, 161. 

 Magnetism, terrestrial, report on, 136 ; 



observations on, 478. 

 Magnesia, native, influence of, on vegeta- 

 tion, 238, 

 Main ( Rev. R. ) on errors of heliocentric 

 longitude and ecliptic polar distance of 

 the planet Venus, 228. 

 Malaria, observations on the nature of, 



104. 

 Mallett (R.) on the application of the 

 light of incandescent coke to photo- 

 graphy, 47.5. 

 Marcliand (M.) on the action of the sul- 

 phate of ammonia on glass, 75. 

 Marum (Prof. D. van), notice of the late, 



66. 

 Masson (M.) on the action of chloride of 



zinc on alcohol, 1 5G. 

 Mercury, on a new equi-atomic com- 

 pound of bicyanide with binoxide of, 

 492 ; seleniuret of, 392. 

 Metal, account of a new, 390. 

 Metallic veins, formation of, by voltaic 

 agency, 145. 



IMetals, on the general magnetic relations 



and characters of, 161. 

 Meteoric iron from Potosi, 394. 



stone, account of the fall of, at the 



Cape of Good Hope, 368, 391. 

 Meteorites,"fall of, in South Africa, 231. 

 Meteorological observations made during 

 a residence in Colombia between 1820 

 and 1830, 10, 95 ; made during voya- 

 ges in the Atlantic and South Pacific 

 oceans, 268. 



■ , monthly, 79, 



159, 239, 319, 399, 479. 

 Meteorological Society, notice respecting, 



399. 

 Middletonite, composition of, 93. 

 Minerals, on the composition of some or- 

 ganic, 87. 

 Mitchell (T.) on the drift from the chalk 



of Norfolk, Suffolk, &c., 50. 

 Moll (Prof. G.), M. Quetelet's memoir 



of, 288. 

 Montlosier (Count), notice of the late, 



381. 

 Moon, on the passage of the, across the 



Pleiades, 177. 

 Mosander (M.), description of a new 



metal, 390. 

 Murchison (R. L) on the classification 

 of the older stratified rocks of Devon- 

 shire and Cornwall, 241, 317, 354. 

 Naphthalin, on the composition of, 152. 

 Necker ( L. A . ) sur une nouvelle maniere 

 d" envisager la theorie cristallogra- 

 phique, 216; on a probable cause of 

 certain earthquakes, 370. 

 Nitric acid, on some of the products ob- 

 tained by the reaction of, on alcohol, 

 324. 

 Northampton (Marquis of) on the Spiro- 



linites from the chalk, 461. 

 Ogilby (W.) on the presumed marsupial 

 remains from the Stonesfield oolite, 

 224. 

 Oligoclas, analysis of crystallized, 398. 

 Ophrydeae, on the anatomy of the roots 



of, 462. 

 Oppcrmann (M.) on the composition of 



wax, 155. 

 Otto and Grote (MM.) on valerianic 



ajther, 74. 

 Owen ( Prof. R.) on somefossil remains of 

 PaK-eotherium, Anoplotherium, and 

 ChaMopotamus fioin the fresh-water 

 beds of the Isle of Wight, 48 ; some re- 

 marks on a fossil nearly allied to the 

 genus Moschus, 49 ; on the jaws of 

 Thylacotlierium Prevostii from Stones- 

 field, 141 ; on the Phascolotlierium, 

 220 ; on tlic teeth of the Zeiii;lodon, 

 302; on a tooth and part of « skeleton 

 of GlytoiloM, 518. 



