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INDEX TO VOL. XXXII. 



Abel (F. a.) on some of the pro- 

 ducts of oxidation of cumol by ni- 

 tric acid, 63. 



Acids : — toluylic, 15 ; nitrotoluylic, 

 25 ; nitrobenzoic, 67 ; phenylic, 

 151 ; propionic, 156 ; mstacetonic 

 and butyro-acetic, ib. ; chrysam- 

 mic, 236 ; orsellic, 301 ; erythric, 

 302 ; evernic, 303 ; aspartic, 31/ ; 

 arsenious, 398 ; pinic, sylvic and 

 pimaric, 542 ; nitromaric, 543. 



Airy (Prof.) on the occultation of 

 stars and planets by the moon, 

 observed at Cambridge Observalorj^ 

 from 1830 to 1835, 146 ; on Prof. 

 Challis's theoretical determination 

 of the velocity of sound, 339. 



Alcohol, on the preparation of abso- 

 lute, 123. 



Algebraic equations of the fifth de- 

 gree, observations on, 50. 



Alumina, analysis of a hydrated sih- 

 cate of, 149. 



Ampere,objections to the theory of,46l. 



Andrews (T.) on the heat disengaged 

 during the combination of bodies 

 with oxygen and chlorine, 321, 426 ; 

 on the heat disengaged during me- 

 tallic substitutions, 392. 



Animals, on the law of the nutrition 

 of, 456. 



Annular eclipses, on beads in, 145. 



Anthracite coal, on the fossil vegeta- 

 tion of, 78. 



Antimony, on a new method of esti- 

 mating, 394. 



Arsenic, on a new method of estima- 

 ting, 394. 



Arsenious acid, on the transparent 

 and opake modifications of, 398. 



Asia Minor, on the present state of 

 knowledge of the geology of, 137. 



Asparagin, researches on, 233, 317. 



Aspartic acid, on the preparation and 

 composition of, 317. 



Astronomical observations made at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, results of, 

 378, 518. 



Baggs <l.) on the disruptive discharge 



of accumulated electricity, and the 

 proximate cause of lightning, 391- 



Barlow (W. H.) on alternating diurnal 

 currents of electricity at the terres- 

 trial surface, 389. 



Barometric wave, on the great sym- 

 metrical, 38. 



Barral (M.) on the composition and 

 properties of nicoiina, 158. 



Beechey (Capt. W. F.) on the tides 

 of the Irish sea, 538. 



Bell's (A.) Elements of Plane Geome- 

 try, reviewed, 526. 



Benzoate of potash, action of chlorine 

 on, 151. 



Birt (W. R.) on the great symmetrical 

 barometric wave, 38. 



Blood, on the existence of several 

 metals in the human, 310 ; on gal- 

 vanic currents in the, 229. 



Bodies, incandescent, on the radia- 

 tions of, 262. 



Bone-caverns, on the geological age 

 of, 119 



Books, new, notices respecting, R. 

 Pott's Euclid's Elements of Geo- 

 metry, 69 ; Gaskin's Solutions of 

 Trigonometrical Problems, ib. ; So- 

 lutions of Geometrical Problems, tJ.; 

 Daubeny's Description of Active and 

 Extinct Volcancs, 216, 296 ; Capt. 

 Yolloud's Accoint of the INIeasure- 

 ment of the Lough Foyle Base in 

 Ireland, 287 ; Sir John Herschel's 

 Results of Astronomical Observa- 

 tions made at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 378, 518 ; Bell's Elements of 

 Plane Geometry, 526 ; Tate's Prin- 

 ciples of Geometry, 535. 



Boole (G.) on the solution of a par- 

 ticular differential equation, 413. 



Bonis (J.) on the action of chlorine 

 on cyanide of mercury, 152. 



Brewster (Sir D.) on the optical 

 phtenomena, nature and locality of 

 MusccB vulitantes, 1 ; on the di- 

 stinctness of vision produced by 

 the use of the polarizing apparatus 

 in microscopes, 161 ; on the phae- 



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