Index. 



477 



Cyanic battery, very large, effects 

 of> 63— elementary, described, 209. 



. experiment, new, 234. 



Gases, absorption of, by different 

 bodies, 241— by liquids, 33S. 



Gay-Lussac, observations, by, on chlo- 

 rine, 124. 



Gehlen, A. F. death of, 392. 



Geological Society, Transactions ot, 

 56— meetings of, 140. 



Glass, heated, effects of, on light, 13b. 



Gough, Mr. John, en the collision ot 

 hard bodies, 414. 



Great Britain, rapid intercourse 

 through, 312. 



Groombridge, Stephen, Esq. on atmos- 

 pherical refraction, 135. 



Cuelielmini seems to have had some no- 

 tion of the structure of crystals, 463. 



Gum-arabic, analysis of, 431. 



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- 

 very that urea is wanting iu urine in 

 hepatitis, 392— ou bleaching by oxy- 

 muriatic acid, 421. 



« Mr. Thomas, his experiments 



on bleaching with oxy muriatic acid, 

 422. 

 Herschell, Dr. on the satellites of the 



Georgium Sid us, 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 



lampree and mixine, 68— on the 

 functions of the brain, 136— on the 

 fossil remains of an animal allied to 

 fishes 139 — 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. 

 Hurl Piever, account of, 141. 

 ||*dra>cyanlc arid, 469. 

 Hydr specific gravity of, 322. 



Hydrophone, absorption of gases by, 

 251. 



I. 



Jameson, Profc^or, on the old red 

 ■and stone formation, 13 — on the 

 places where fossil elephants hav« 



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 



ri.e and fall of the tide, 273— for 



ensuring the attention of watchmen, 



418. 

 Iodine, experiments and observations 



on, 136— discovery of, 183— test of, 



312. 

 Johnson, Mr. on fossil remains found 



at Lynn, 455. 

 Jorullo, volcano of, 146. 

 Iridium, memoir on, 433. 

 Iron, native, new mass of, discovered, 

 151. 



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 algse, 149. 



Latreille, M. on the respiratory organs 

 of thecloporta, 227. 



Linnaean 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 in a day, 71. 



Longmire, Mr. John B. on rents, 45, 

 2\s, 411 — ou the origin of carbu- 

 reted hydrogen gas in coal-mines, 

 172. 

 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 staffa, 64— on vegetable remains 

 preserved in chalcedony, 65— on the 

 Lie of Sky, 140. 



Majrnetlcal observations, 51, 133,218, 

 293 378. 



Mammoth, tooth of, discovered ia 

 Hudson's Bay, 148. 



Mauua, analysis of, 431. 



