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INDEX. 



Madras, longitude of, computed from 

 moon-culminating observations, 596. 



Magnesia, sensibility of a reagent for, 600. 



Magnetic and meteorological observa- 

 tions : — at Constantinople, 553 ; at 

 Prague, 553, 554 ; at Kerguelen's 

 Land, 553; on H.M.S. Erebus, ib. ; 

 H.M.S. Terror, ib. ; at Milan, 555, 558 ; 

 at St. Helena, 555 ; at Toronto, ib. ; at 

 Hobart Town, 557 ; at Van Dienien's 

 Land, 557, 558. 

 Magnetism and electricity, Prof. Henry's 

 contributions to, 482. 



Magnetism, terrestrial, contributions to, 

 519. 



Main (Rev. R.) on the present state of 

 our knowledge of the parallax of the 

 fixed stars, 597. 



Manipulation, electrotype, 520. 



Mantell (G.A.) on a portion of tlie lower 

 jaw of an iguanodon, and other saurian 

 remains in Tilgate forest, 551. 



Marchaud (Dr.) on the dioxide of copper, 

 212; on aconitic and itaconic aethers, 

 286; on the milk of the cow-tree, 291. 



Marianini (Prof.) on an experiment ad- 

 duced by Prof. Faraday in support of 

 Prof. De la Rive's theory of electricity, 

 193, 529. 



Marsh (J.) on testing for arsenic and an- 

 timony by Hume's process, 442. 



Mauritius, coral reef in the island of, 526. 



McCormick (R.) geological remarks on 

 Kerguelen's Land, 558 ; on the birds of 

 Kerguelen's Land, ib. 



Megalosaurus, 552. 



Mellon, formation of, 518. 



Messina, bed of lignite near, 566. 



Meteorological observations and table, 79, 

 159,240, 320, 416, 527. 



Miller (Prof.) on supernumerary rain- 

 bows, 520. 



Millon (M.) on the bleaching salts of 

 chlorine, 422. 



Mineralogy: — lepidomelane, 77; antigo- 

 rite, 120; pennine, 121 ; chlorospinelle, 

 ib.; xanthophyllite, 122; pikrophylle, 

 ib. ; Berzeliit, 157 ; phosphate of cop- 

 per, 236 ; fibroferrite, 397 ; phosphate 

 of yttria, 519. 



Minium, constitution of, 237. 



Mitscherlich (Prof.) on cinnamonitric 

 and benzoenitric acids, 367. 



Molecules, on the symmetrical arrange- 

 ment of, 161. 



Moore (J. C.) on the rocks which form the 

 west shore of the bay of Loch Ryan, 

 219. 



Moraines of ancient glaciers in Scotland, 

 337; near Dumfries, 575; in Forfar- 

 shire, ib.; in Aberdeenshire, ib.; at 



Taymouth, 575 ; in Glen Cofield, ib. ; 

 near Callender, 577 ; in Northumber- 

 land, 587. 



Morgan (Prof. A. de) on a method of com- 

 puting life contingencies, 268. 



Mulder (M.) on the action of chlorine on 

 animal substances, 278 ; on cinnamo- 

 nitric and benzoenitric acids, 367. 



Murchison (R. L) on the classification and 

 distribution of the older rocks of the 

 north of Germany, 398 ; letter to, by 

 Capt. Lloyd, ^Dn a coral reef in the island 

 of Mauritius, 526. 



Muscles, voluntary, contraction of, in the 

 living body, 560. 



Mylias (M.) on the occurrence of uric 

 acid in snails, 210. 



Nautilus Orbiculus, ii6. 



Newton (Sir Isaac) presentation of the 

 portrait of, to the Royal Society, by C. 

 Vignolles, 556. 



Newtonian reflecting telescope, seven feet, 

 presentation of, to the Astronomical 

 Society, 597. 



Nitric acid, products of the action of, on 

 castor oil, 417. 



Nitric oxide, combination of, with sul- 

 phuric acid, 81. 



Northampton, Marquis of, anniversary 

 address by the, at the Royal Society, 57. 



Northumberland, moraines in, 587. 



Nutmegs, on a new fat acid in the butter 

 of, 102. 



(Enanthic acid, 421. 



ffinanthylate ofsilver, 419 ; of baryta, 420 ; 

 of potash, 421 ; of strontian, ib. 



CEnanthylic acid, 418; sether, ib. 



Oils :— elemi and olibanum, 184; palm, 

 186; tro'ca Ruta graveolens, 207; cas- 

 carilla and carraway, 281 ; of potatoe 

 spirit, 281, 439; of anise and of fennel, 

 282 ; of bergamot, 283 ; products of the 

 action of nitric acid on castor, 417 ; of 

 esdragon, 438; ofsabine, ib. 



Olbers (Dr.), notice of the late, 72. 



Optics, physical, on the application of 

 Huyghens's principle in, 11. 



Orbigny's (M. Alcide d') view of the 

 white chalk of the Paris basin, 456 ; on 

 the foraminifers of the white chalk of 

 the Paris basin, ib. 



Owen (R.) on the fossil remains of a bird, 

 tortoise, and saurian from the chalky 

 318. 



Oxalic aether, action of chlorine on, 544 ; 

 compounds derived from, 545. 



Oxamethane, isomorphism of, with chlo- 

 roxamethane, 372. 



Parallax of the fixed stars, present state 

 of our knowledge of the, 597. 



Paris basin, Mr. Weaver on M, Alcide 



