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INDEX. 



formed, under peculiar circumstances, 

 at the bottom of running water, 555 ; 

 on the localities affected by hoar frost, 

 the peculiar currents of air excited by 

 it, and the temperature during its oc- 

 currence at high and low stations, 554. 



Fatty substances, researches on the, 113. 



Favio (Dr.) on electric currents in warm- 

 blooded animals, 271. 



Fibroferrite, analysis of, 397. 



Fluids, principles of the application of 

 analysis to the motion of, 477. 



Foraminifers of the white chalk ot the 

 Paris basin, 456. 



Forfarshire, existence of glaciers in, 579. 



Formic sether, preparation of, 209. 



Fossil remains from the chalk, 31G. 



Fremy (M.) on palmitic acid, 281; on 

 ferric acid, 369. 



Francis and Croft's notices of the investi- 

 gations of continental chemists, 202, 

 276, 367, 436, 544 ; errata in, 546. 



Fuchs (Prof) on a new method of ana- 

 lysing the ores of iron, 90. 



Fuss (Dr.) on brucin, 210. 



Gammaresin, 440. 



Geological Society, 212, 311, 398, 522, 

 561. 



Geology : — on the characters of fossil trees 

 found near Manchester, and on the 

 formation of coal, 212; on the beds of 

 clay below the coal seams of South 

 Wales, 217; on the rocks which form 

 the left shore of the bay of Loch Ryan, 

 219; on thesiliceous bodies of the chalk, 

 220 ; on the age of the limestone of 

 South Devon, 223 ; on the bone caves 

 of Devonshire, 228 ; on the great fault 

 in the forest of Dean coal-field, 229 ; 

 on the subsidence of the coast near 

 Puzzuoli, 232 ; on part of Borneo Pro- 

 per, lb. ; on some geological specimens 

 from Syria, 233; geological features of 

 Ionia, Caria and Rhodes, 311 ; remains 

 of a bird, tortoise, and Lacertian sau- 

 rian from the chalk, 316 ; on the organic 

 composition of the chalk and chalk 

 marls, 383, 443; classification and 

 distribution of the older rocks of 

 North Germany, 398 ; living poly- 

 thalamia on the African and Asiatic 

 coasts of the Mediterranean, 443 ; 

 on M. Alcide d'Orbigny's view of the 

 white chalk of the Paris basin, 456 ; 

 list of foraminifers found in the Paris 

 basin, 461 ; on a mass of trap in the 

 mountain limestone in the Bleadou 

 hill, 522; on the coloured sections of 

 the cuttings on the Birmingham and 

 Gloucester railway, 523 ; on a coral 

 reefiai the island of the Mauritius, S26 ; 



on a portion of the lower jaw of an 

 iguanodon and other saurian remains 

 found in Tilgate forest, 551 ; geologi- 

 cal remarks on Kerguelen's Land, 558 ; 

 oil the mineral veins of the Sierra Al- 

 magrera, 561 ; on the Sierra de Gador 

 and its lead mines, 563; on the polished 

 surfaces of the rocks forming the gla- 

 ciers in the Alps, 565 ; on a bed of lig- 

 nite near Messina, 566 ; on the chalk 

 and the Subjacent formations to the Pur- 

 beck stone inclusive in the north of 

 Germany, ib. ; on a large saurian dis- 

 covered near Hythe, 568 ; evidence of 

 glaciers having existed in Scotland, Ire- 

 land, and England, 569 ; in Scotland 

 and the north of England, 574, 587 ; 

 in Forfarshire, 579 ; dispersion of Shap 

 Fell granite by ice, 5S9. 



Gerhardt and Cahours on aethereal oils, 

 282,415. 



Gilbert (D.), notice of the late, 62, 142. 



Glaciers :— on supposed moraines of, in 

 Scotland, 337; polished surfaces of the 

 rocks forming the beds of, in the Alps, 

 565; evidence of their having existed 

 in Scotland, Ireland, and England, 569 ; 

 former existence of, in Forfarshire, 572, 

 579 ; in Scotland and the north of En- 

 gland, 574; evidences of, on Schie- 

 hallion, 576 ; in and near Strath Earn, 

 ih. ; near Comrie, 577 ; near Loch 

 Earn, ih. ; proofs of glacial action at 

 Stirling and Edinburgh, 578 ; in the 

 mountains of Cumberland and West- 

 moreland, 588. 



Glashier (Mr.) on the correction of the 

 elements of the orbit of Venus, 601. 



Gmelin (L.) on Prussian blue, 284; on 

 the croLonate of copper, 292. 



Graham (Prof) on the preparation of 

 chlorate of potash, 518. 



Griffin's (J. J.) System of Crystallography, 

 reviewed, 302. 



Ground-gru, or ice formed at the bottom 

 of running water, 555. 



Grove (W. 11.) on a powerful voltaic com- 

 bination, 234 ; on some electro-nitrogu- 

 rets, 548. 



Halliwell (J. O.) on the Boetian syslcui 

 of numerical contractions, and the Ala- 

 baldine notation, 13. 



Hamilton (W. J.) on the geology of loniii, 

 Caria, and Rhodes, 311. 



Hare's (Dr. R.) second letter to Prof. 

 Faraday, 461. 



Hargreave (C. J.) on the calculation of 

 attractions, and the figure of the cartli, 

 550. 



Harris (W. S.) on lightning conductori 

 for ships, 172. 



