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INDEX. 



Scientific Memoirs, 319; collection of 

 Letters illustrative of the progress of 

 Science, 412. 



Bowerbank (J. S.) on the siliceous bodies 

 of the chalk, greensand and oolite, 220. 



Bowman (J. E.) on the characters of fos- 

 sil trees, and on the formation of coal, 

 212; on supposed moraines of ancient 

 glaciers in Scotland, 337. 



Bowman (\V.) on the contraction of volun- 

 tary muscles in the living body, 5G0. 



Brewster, (Sir D.) correction of an error 

 in Prof. Dove's letter on the law of 

 storms, 314; on a remarkable property 

 of the diamond, 552 ; on the phse- 

 nomena of thin plates of solid and fluid 

 substances exposed to polarized light, 

 561. 



Buckland (Prof.) on the evidences of gla- 

 ciers in Scotland and the north of En- 

 gland, 574, 587. 



Buddie (J.) on the great fault in the 

 forest of Dean coal-field, 229. 



Bunsen (Dr.) on the bodies derived from 

 alkaisin, 370. 



Butler (Dr. S.), notice of the late, 64. 



Cacodyl, ptotochloride of, 436; proto- 

 iodide of, ib. 



Cahours and Gerhardt on sthereal oils, 

 282, 415. 



Calcareous-shelled Polythalamia, list of, 

 453. 



Calvert (Dr. R.) on a bed of lignite near 

 Messina, 566. 



Cambridge Philosophical Society, 318, 

 520. 



Camphoric acid, anhydrous, action of an- 

 hydrous phosphoric acid on, 238. 



Cantraine (Prof.) on electric currents in 

 warm-blooded animals, 271. 



Capaun (C. F.) on the preparation of hy- 

 posulphite of soda, 211. 



Carlisle (Sir A.), notice of the late, 65. 



Cells, on the physiology of, 308. 



Chalk, on the organic composition of, 220, 

 383. 



Challis (Rev. J.) on the motion of a small 

 sphere in a resisting medium, 130, 321 ; 

 on the principles of the application of 

 analysis to the motion of fluids, 477 ,- 

 on the motion of a small sphere sub- 

 mitted to the dynamical action of the 

 vibrations of an elastic medium, 521. 



Chelidonin, on the composition of, 32. 



Chemical Society of London, 410, 515. 



Chemical reagents, limit to the action of 

 certain, 604. 



Chemistry : — new compound of chlorine 

 and cyanogen, 29; composition of 

 chelidonin and jervin, 32 ; combina- 

 tion of hydrated sulphuric acid with 



nitric oxide, 81 ; new method of ana- 

 lysing ores of iron, 90; new acid frotn 

 the butter of nutmegs, 102; constitu- 

 tion of fatty substances, 113; artificial 

 oil of ants, 122 ; analysis of chyle and 

 lymph, 156; oils of elemi and oliba- 

 num, 184; palm oil and cacao butter, 

 186; chemical types, 203; action of 

 potassa on alcohols, 204, 296; oil from 

 Ruta graveoletis, ib. ; action of chlo- 

 rine and bromine on indigo, 297 ; formic 

 aether, 209; telluret of sethyl, 210; 

 uric acid in snails, ib. ; brucin, ib. ; 

 new method of analysing metallic sul- 

 phurets, 211 ; preparation of chlorate 

 of barytes, 210; of hyposulphite of 

 soda, 211 ; dioxide of copper, 212 ; fos- 

 sil wax of Gallicia, 235 ; minium, 237 ; 

 action of anhydrous phosphoric acid on 

 anhydrous camphoric acid, 238 ; vol- 

 taic decomposition of aqueous and ako- 

 holic solutions, 241 ; atomic volume 

 and crystalline condition of bodies, 255 ; 

 black substance from sulphuric acid and 

 alcohol, 276 ; action of chlorine on 

 animal substances, 278 ; action of pot- 

 ash and soda on indigo, 280 ; palmitic 

 acid, 281; sethereal oils, j6. ; guaranin, 

 283 ; action of chlorine on marsh gas, 

 284; Gros's salts of platina, 284, 293; 

 Prussian blue, 284 ; double carbonate 

 of lead and soda, 2S5 ; acid products 

 of citric acid at high temperatures, ib.; 

 milk of the cow-tree, 291; croconate 

 of copper, 292 ; state of the haloid salts 

 in solution, 357 ; benzoenitric and cin- 

 namonitric acids, 367 ; ferric acid, 369 ; 

 researches on the cacodyl series, 370 ; 

 isomorphism of oxamethane and chlo- 

 roxamethane, 372; cumyle, 415; ac- 

 tion of nitric acid on castor oil, 417; 

 cenanthylic sther and cenanthylic acid, 

 418; oenanthylate of silver, 419; of ba- 

 ryta, 420 ; of potash, 42 1 ; of strontian, 

 ib. ; cenanthic acid, ih. ; suberic acid, 

 116, 422 ; lipinic acid, ib.; on bleach- 

 ing salts, ib. ; on the bleaching salts of 

 chlorine, ib. ; protochloride of cacodyl, 

 436; protoxide of, ib. ; oil of sabine, 

 43S; of esdragon, ?5. ; of potatoe spirit, 

 439 ; acetate of amilen, ib. ; on the 

 resins of benzoin, ib. ; betaresin, alpha- 

 resin, gammaresin, 440 ; action of an- 

 hydrous sulphuric acid on anhydrous 

 camphoric acid, 441 ; manufacture of 

 platinum, 442 ; on testing for arsenic 

 and antimony by Hume's process, 442 ; 

 preparation and formation of yellow 

 prussiate of potash, 515 ; formation of 

 mellon, 518; appearance of flashes of 

 light during the crystallization of ni- 



