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INDEX to VOL. III. 



ADIE (R.) on some tkermo-electrical 

 experiments, 185. 



Air-pump, method of obtaining a per- 

 fect vacuum in the receiver of an, 

 104. 



Algebra, on quadruple, 436. 



Alizarine, properties and composition 

 of, 358. 



Ammonias, on the compound, 392. 



Andrews (Dr. T.) on a method of ob- 

 taining a perfect vacuum in the 

 receiver of an air-pump, 104. 



Astronomical Societv, proceedings of 

 the, 71. ' 



Astronomy, Grant's History of Phy- 

 sical, noticed, 468. 



Atmosphere, observations on the op- 

 tical phamomena of the, 1, 92. 



Barytine, on the crystalline form of, 

 144. 



Bats' wings, on the rythmical con- 

 tractility of the veins of, 383. 



Becquerel (M.) on the artificial forma- 

 tion of several minerals, 235 ; on 

 the properties of electrified bodies, 

 503. 



Blood, on the red matter of the, 

 398. 



Books, new : — Hunt's Elementary 

 Physics, 57 ; Paterson's Calculus 

 of Operations, 60 ; Introductory 

 Lectures delivered at the Govern- 

 ment School of Mines, 61, 227; 

 Ramchundra's Treatise on Pro- 

 blems of Maxima and Minima, 148 ; 

 Feiktzsch's Optical Investigations, 

 occasioned by the Total Eclipse of 

 the Sun on the 28th of July 1851, 

 232; Grant's History of Physical 

 Astronomy, 468. 



Booth (Rev. J.) on the geometrical 

 properties of elliptic integrals, 233. 



Brame (Ch.) on the crystallization of 

 sulphur, 154. 



Brewster (Sir D.) on some new and 

 simple stereoscopes, 16 ; on a bin- 



ocular camera, and on a method of 

 obtaining drawings of full length 

 and colossal statues, and of living 

 bodies which can be exhibited as 

 solids by the stereoscope, 26 ; on 

 a chromatic stereoscope, 31 ; on an 

 optical illusion, 55; on the deve- 

 lopment and extinction of regular 

 doubly-refracting structures in the 

 crystalline lenses of animals after 

 death, 192; on a remarkable pro- 

 perty of the diamond, 284. 



Brodhurst (B. E.) on the motions of 

 the iris, 390. 



Bronwin (Rev. B.) on the integration 

 of linear differential equations, 187. 



Buff (Prof. H.) on the electrical pro- 

 perties of flame, 145. 



Cacodyle series, on the bodies of the, 

 392. 



Cambridge Philosophical Society, 

 proceedings of the, 316. 



Camera, account of a binocular, 26. 



Carmichael (R.) on homogeneous 

 functions, and their index symbol, 

 129. 



Challis (Prof.) on the cause of the 

 aberration of light, 53 ; on a ma- 

 thematical theory of M. Foucault's 

 pendulum experiment, 331. 



Chapman (Prof.), mineralogical notes, 

 141 ; on the classification of the 

 silicates and their albed compounds, 

 2/0. 



Chemical combination, on the heat of, 

 43, 299, 481. 



Chemistry, early Egyptian, observa- 

 tions on, 528. 



Chlorite spar and chloritoid, notice 

 respecting, 142. 



Clouston (Rev.C.) on the sun-column 

 as seen at Sandvvick Manse, Ork- 

 ney, 478. 



Cockle (J.) on algebraic transforma- 

 tion, on quadruple algebra, and on 

 the theory of equations, 436. 



