556 



INDEX. 



Buckton (G. B.) ou the action of sul- 

 phuric acid on the nitriles, and on 

 the amides, 549. 



Bunbury (C. J. F.) on some appear- 

 ances observed on draining a mere, 

 480. 



Calculating-machine of JI. Scheutz, 

 report ou, 540. 



Calvert (F. C.) on chemical affinity, 

 and the solubility of the sulphate of 

 baryta in acid liquors, 3W. 



Cambridge Philoiophieal Society, pro- 

 ceedings of the, 240, a07, 398. 



Carnot's function, on the discovery of 

 the true fonn of, 388, 44/. 



Carrere (M.) on the phtenomenon of 

 coloured rings, 86. 



Casselmann (Dr.) on volumetric de- 

 terminations, i-<75. 



Catechu and its acids, 3/6 



Cayley (A.) on the theory of loga- 

 rithms, 275 ; ou a result of ehmi- 

 nation, 3/8 ; ou the theoiy of ellip- 

 tic motion, 425. 



Chemical affinity, researches on, 390. 



notices from Foreign Journals, 



197, 372, 453. 



Chlorine, on the effect of, in colouring 

 the flame of burning bodies, 65. 



Chowne (Dr. W. D.) on the movement 

 of atmospheric air in tubes, 227. 



Church (A. H.) on the action of water 



'-•'<'■' upon certain sulphomethylates, 68; 

 on the production of formic aether, 



■ " 527 ; on some new colouring mat- 

 ters, 554. 



Clausius (R.) on the discovery of the 

 true form of Carnot's function, 388. 



Coal, on the existence of, in the north- 

 western districts of Asia Minor, 79 ; 

 on the occurrence of, in China, 482. 



Coal-basin of Valenciennes, on the, 

 394. 



Cobbold (Rev. R. H.) on the occur- 

 rence of coal in China, 482. 



Collodion plates, methods of preser- 

 ving the sensitiveness of, 334. 



Colour-blindness, on a peculiar case of, 

 .329. 



Colouring matters, on some new, 

 554. 



Compass, on observed deviations of 

 the, in iron-built ships, 161. 



Conies with a curve of the third de- 

 gree, on the existence of, 463. 

 Copper, on the determination of, 375 ; 

 on the metallurgy of, 409. 



Copper salts of the fatty acids, action 



of, on the organism, 457- 

 Coprolitic deposit in Bohemia, account 



of a, 486. 

 Corundum, on the density of, 144."J 

 Cow's milk, analyses of, 457. 

 Croker (Dr. J. G.) on the lignite de- 

 posits of Bovey-Tracey, 4S0. 

 Crookes (W.) on the methods of pre- 

 serving the sensitiveness of collo- 

 dion plates, 334. 

 Crustaceans, new fossil, 83. 'i iiiiJ 

 Cryolite of Greenland, on th©,'6ftlij •' 

 Curves, on the singular points of, 

 308. 



Cyanogen, on two new double salts 

 of, 458. 



Davy (E. W.) on the comparative value 

 of peat and peat-charcoal for agri- 

 cultural purposes, 172. 



Dean (Mr.) on tellurium and selenium 

 compoiuids, 453. 



De Morgan (Prof.) on the singular 

 points of curves, 308. 



Dennis (Rev. Mr.) on some organic 

 remains from the bone-bed at Lyme 

 Regis, 393. 



Deville (C. Sainte-Claire) on the den- 

 sity of quartz, corundum, me tals, &c. 

 after fusion and rapid cooling, 144. 



Devincenzi (M.) on a process of en- 

 graving in relief on zinc, 166. 



Dew-point, on the determination of 

 the, 304. 



Diamagnetic action, researches on, 

 249. 



particles, on the reciprocal ac- 

 tion of, 66. 



polarity, on the relation of, to 



magnecrystallic action, 125. 



Dick (A.) on the metallurgy of cop- 

 per, 409 ; on the Cleveland iron 

 ore, 481. 



Discs revolving in water, on the fric- 

 tion of, 474. 



Dusart (M.) on a new method for the 

 formation of propylene, 372 ; on 

 nitrophthaline, ib. 



Earth, on the external temperature of 

 the, 398. 



Earthquake in Switzerland in July 

 1855, account of the, 240. 



Electric discharge, on the law of, 524. 



induction, on the action of non- 

 conducting bodies in, 1. 



telegraph, on the theorj- of the, 



146. v- .cci y 



