Index. 



All 



Granville, Dr. on Eg)rptian mummies and 



the art of embalming, 2 1 5. 

 Green, Rinmann's preparation of, 303. 

 Grosbeak, description of a new species of, 



134. 



H. 



Harvey, Mr. on naval architecture, 20. 



Heart of animals belonging to the genus 

 rana, on the, 138. 



Heberden, Dr. on the heat of July, 1825, 

 &c. 138. 



Heights, measurement of, by one barome- 

 ter, 33 — on the accuracy of, 363. 



Hedgehog-ray, on the, 1 1 jJ. 



Hennel, Mr. on the analysis of oil of wine, 

 and on the salts called sulphovinates, 

 291. 



Henry, Dr. analysis of a compound of 

 hyponitrous and sulphuric acids, 368. 



■ BI. comparative analysis of the 



bitumens of England and France, 70. 



Herapath, Mr. on Mr. Horner's solution 

 of%i/=x = X, 246. 



Herschel, Mr. account of a series of ob- 

 servations to determine the difference of 

 longitude between the national obser- 

 vatories of Greenwich and Paris, 138. 



' gold medal presented to, 



454. 



Homer, Mr. extension of a theorem of 

 Fermat, 82 — reply to BIr, Herapath, 

 363 — on the solutions of the function 

 ■^ X = X, and their limitations, 1 68, 

 241 — on the use of continued fractions 

 with unrestricted numerators in summa- 

 tion of series, 416. 



Horticulture, on climate, with regard to, 

 114. 



Howard, Mr. R. meteorological tables, 79, 

 159,319,397,473. 



Human race, on the species or varieties of, 

 71. 



Hydrogen, remarks on the specific gravity 

 of, 187. 



Hydrometers, glass, on a simple mode of 

 engraving, 261, 



Ice, on the elasticity of, 450. 

 Incubation, on the change of weight of 



eggs during, 72. 

 Indian archipelago, on the expediency of 



■ surveying it, 178. 

 Institution, Royal, proceedings at, 294, 



.-^90, 453. 

 Ireland, fossil deer of, 305. 

 Iridium, analysis of the ore of, 17, 



Iron, arseniates of, composition of, 23. 



— — bodies, on the temporary magnetic 

 effect produced on, by rotation, 444. 



■ method of browning it, 238. 



— — soft, on the cutting of steel by, 315. 



Isomorphism, alterations which must be 

 made on account of, in systems of che- 

 mical mineralogy, 381. 



■^— changes which it occasions 



in the system of mineralogy, 420. 



Jamaica, on the geology of, 230. 



K. 



Kater, Capt. abstract of his account of the 

 construction and adjustment of the 

 standard weights and measures, 154. 



Kendall, IMr. on the cutting of steel by 

 soft iron, 315. 



Kidd, Dr. on the anatomy of the mole 

 cricket, 202. 



Kiinigine, description of, 194. 



L. 



Lac, experiments on the colouring matter 

 of, 401. 



Lamp-black, analysis of, 395. 



Land and water, distribution of, 469. 



Leslie, Prof, on a new instrument for as- 

 certaining the specific gravity of pow- 

 ders, 313. 



Levy, M. description of two new minerals, 

 194. 



Light, on the magnetizing power of the 

 more refrangible rays of, 224. 



Lithia, in minerals, on the means of de- 

 tecting, 131. 



discovery of, in mineral waters, 



69, 145. 



Live cflckles, discovery of, in a peat moss 

 distant from the sea, 464. 



Longitude at sea, on finding of, 24. 



I^ongmire, Mr. on the flame of a candle, 

 166. 



liozenges, alkaline digestive, 395. 



Lyell, Mr. on tlie strata of the plastic 

 clay formation in some parts of Dorsct- 

 sliirc, 392. 



Lyme Regis, on the chalk and sands be- 

 neath it at, 143. 



