Index. 



479 



s. 



Saponaria officinalis, on the vegetable 



principle of, 302. 

 Scanlan, Mr. on a volatile oil possessing 

 peculiar properties obtained from soap 

 ley, 3-i6. 

 Scarlet, dyeing on, 401. 

 Schoolcraft, on native silver from Bliche- 



gan, 237. 

 Scrope, IMr. analysis of his work on vol- 

 canoes, 51. 

 Sedgwick, Prof, on the classification of 

 the strata which appear on the York- 

 shire coast, 339. 

 Severn, shores of, geological survey of, 



151. 

 Ships of war, on the construction of, 413. 

 SiUiman, Prof, on the physical characters 



of the Maryland aerohte, 149. 

 Silver, native, from JMichegan, 237. 

 Soap ley, pecuUar volatile oil obtained 



from, 326. 

 Society, astronomical, proceedings of, 62, 

 229,295,391,454. 



. geological, proceedings of, 139, 



231, 301,461. 



Linnaean, proceedings of, 62, 



295. 

 Medico-Botanical, proceedings of, 



232. 



Royal, analysis of Transactions 



of, 202, 281. 



proceedings of, 55, 137, 



223, 390, 450. 



- Zoological, organization of, 463. 



Sulphuric acid, its action on napthaline, 



227. 

 Survey, geological, of the shores of the 



Severn, 157. 

 Sussex, west of, geological sketch of part 



of, 144. 



T. 



Table, meteorological, 79, 159, 319,397, 

 472. 



meteorological, kept at Bushey 



Heath, 94. 

 Taylor, Mr. on the re-appearance of fossil 



timber on the coast of Norfolk, 142. 

 Telescope, Mr. Tulley's, report respecting 



it, 440. 

 Temperature of mines, on the, 259. 

 Thomson, Dr. answer to Dr. Ure's re- 

 view of his work in the Journal of 

 Science, 1 — analysis of the ore of iri- 

 dium, 17 — on arseniate of iron, 147. 

 Thorina, its compound nature, 23. 

 Tivoli, on the granite found in the excava- 

 tions at, 142. 

 Toad, common, on the poison of, 137, 



277. 

 Trees, raining, 468. 

 TuUey, ftlr. report respecting his telescope, 



440. 

 Turner, Dr. on the means of detecting 

 lithia in minerals by the blowpipe, 131 

 — analysis of his introduction to the 

 study of the laws of chemical combina- 

 tion and the atomic theory, &c. 386. 



Somerville, Mrs. on the magnetizing 

 power of the more refrangible rays of 

 light, 224. 

 Sound as a substance, 467. 

 South, JMr. gold medal presented to, 



454. 

 Specific gravity of hydrogen gas, on the, 



187. 

 Steel, on the cutting of, by soft iron, 315. 

 Stephens, Mr. on the influence of chemis- 

 try on the affairs of life considered, 

 333. 

 Sulphovinates, on the salts so called, 



291. 

 Stars, double, a comparison of observa- 

 tions made on, 460. 

 Stickleback, on the habits and food of, 



173. 

 St. I/awrencc, valley of, geology of, 460. 

 Strata north of the Humber, account of, 



435. 

 Strata of the Yorkshire coast, stratification 



of, 3 {9. 

 Struye, Prof, a comparison of observations 

 made on double stars, 460 — gold medal 

 presented to, 454. 



U. 



lire, Dr. answer to his review of Dr. 

 Thomson's attempt, Slc. 1. 



V. 



Vanuxem, Mr. experiments on anthracite, 



plumbago, &c. 104. 

 Vapour, on the non-production of, in cer- 

 tain cases in which it had been supposed 



to exist, 391. 

 Vauquelin, analysis of a new variety of 



wolfram, 328. 

 Vernon, Rev. Mr. account of the strata 



north of the Humber, 435. 

 Volatile oil, peculiar one, obtained from 



soap ley, 3i6. 

 Vivian, l\Ir. description of amalgamation 



as now carried on in Germany, 196, 

 262. 

 Volcanoes, analysis of Mx. Scrope's work 



on, 51. 



