Index. 
Galyanic battery, very large, effects 
. of, 68—elementary, described, 209. 
—_—_———— experiment, new, 234, 
Gases, absorption of, by different 
bodies, 241—by liquids, 338. 
Gay-Lussac, observations, by, on chlo- 
rine, 124, 
Gehlen, A. F. death of, 392. 
Geological Society, Transactions of, 
56—meetings of, 140. 
Glass, heated, effects of, on light, 136. 
Gough, Mr. John, e2 the collision of 
hard bodies, 414. 
Great Britain, rapid 
. through, 312. 
Groombridge, Stephen, Esq. on atmos- 
pherical refraction, 135. 
Guglielmini seems to have had some no- 
_ tion of the structure of crystals, 463. 
Gum-arabic, analysis of, 431. 
intercourse 
H. 
Hard bodies, on the collision of, 414. 
Heart, action of, experiments to de- 
termine on what it depends, 221, 
Heat, animal, some experiments on, 
140, 
Hemp, new mode of manufacturing, 
230. > 
Henry, Dr. confirms Mr. Rose’s disco- 
yery that urea is wanting ip urine in 
hepatitis, 392—on bleaching by oxy- 
muriatic acid, 421. 
—— Mr. Thomas, his experiments 
on bleaching with oxymuriatic acid, 
422, 
Herschell, Dr. on the satellites of the 
Georgium Sidus, 68. 
Hey, Dr. Richard, on some properties 
of tangents to circles, &c, 135. 
Home, Sir Everard, on the respiration 
of certain vermes that live in water, 
69—on the mode of generation of the 
lamprée and mixine, 68—on the 
functions of the brain, 136—on the 
fossil remains of an animal allied to 
fishes, 189—on the influence of the 
nerves on the action of the arteries, 
139, 
Horner, W.G. Esq. on new and im- 
portant combinations with the ca- 
mera lucida, 281, 
Fuel Peever, account of, 141. ; 
Hydre-cyanic acid, 469. 
Hydrogen gas, specific gravity of, 322. 
Hydropbase, absorption of gases by, 
251, 
I. 
Jameson, Professor, on the old red 
gand-stone formation, 13—on_ the 
places where fossil elephants have 
ATT 
been found, 142~-on the indurated 
talc of the Zetlands, 142. 
Iceland, weather in, during 1814, 395. 
Indigogen, 75. 
Institute, labours of, 146, 223, 387,436, 
Instrument for peforming mechanically 
the involution and evolution, of 
numbers, 220—for registering the 
rise and fall of the tide, 273—for 
ensuring the attention of watchmen, 
Als, 
lodine, experiments and observations 
~ 136—discovery of, 183—test of, 
12. 
Johnson, Mr. on fossil remains found 
at Lynn, 455, 
Jorullo, volcano of, 146. 
Iridium, memoir on, 433. 
lie native, new mass of, discovered, 
K, 
Kater, Capt. Henry, on an improved 
method of dividing astronomical 
circles, 136. 
Kid, Dr. on the production of salt« 
petre, 138. 
L. 
Labradore, notices relative to the 
geology of, 63. 
Lamouroux, M. on the alge, 149. 
Latreille, M. on the respiratory organs 
of the cloport#, 227. 
Linnean Society, meetings of, 70, 455.. 
Lockart, Mr. imaginary cube roots of, 
observations on, 72—on the extrac- 
tion of the cube roots of binomials, 
152. 
London bridge, numbers that pass over 
it ina day, 71. 
Longmire, Mr. John B. on rents, 43, 
213, 411l—on the origin of carbu- 
tat hydrogen gas in coal-mines, 
2. 
Luminous appearance in the heavens, 
393, 
M. 
Macculloch, Dr, on the junction of 
trap and sand-stone at Stirling Castle, 
57 — miscellaneous geological re- 
marks, by, 59-on quartz rock, 63 
—on stafla, 64—on vegetable ; 
preserved in chalcedony, 65—on the 
Isle of Sky, 140. 
Magnetical observations, 51, 133, 218, 
293, 318, 
Mammoth, tooth of, discovered ia 
Hudson’s Bay, 142. iy 
Mauna, analysis of, 431, 
