INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVII. 



A. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, their new hall, 399. 

 Acid, carbonic, liquefaction of, 398, 

 Agassiz, his work on the Echinoderma- 



ta, noticed, 369. 

 Alcoholic strength of wines, 363. 

 Allan, John, on Coins and Medals, 285- 



New Haven Centennial 



Medal, 287. 

 Amber, on Insects in, by Dr. Berendt, 



365. 



American Philos. Society, notice of their 



transactions, 188. 



Antarctic expedition, British, for scien- 

 tific discovery, 397. 



Ararat, extinct volcano near, 349. 



Asaph us diurus, a new trilobite,40. 



August, shooting: stars of, 325. 



Aurora Borealis of Sept. 3, 1839, 375. 



B. 



Babel, ruins of the tower of, 352. 



Bachman, Dr. J. abstract of his mono- 

 graph of the Sciuri, 290. 



Bailey, Prof. J. W. on liquefaction of 

 carbonic acid, 398. 



Barium, on the extrication of, by Dr. 



Hare, 267. 



Basaltic columns of the Caucasus range, 



348. ^. , . 



Bassett, Rev. William, oa Lizards in 



chalk, 402. 

 Batchelder, J. M. on temperature of Saco 



river and adjacent air, 389- 

 Balhs,hot, near Tiflis, 349. 

 Beaumontite, a new mineral, 398. 

 Berendt, his work on insects in amber, 



365. 



Berzelius on meteoric stones, 93. 



Bethlehem, Pa. catalogue of plants col- 

 lected near, 310. 



Bevan, Benj. biographical notice of, 120. 



Bewick, Thos. do. do. 158. 



Biography, scientific, announced by J, 

 W. Webster, 193. 



Bischof, Prof. Gustav, natural history of 

 volcanos and earthquakes, 41. 



Black Heath coal mine, e:xplosion in, 



387, 



Boracic acid lagoons of Tuscany, 270. 



Boston Society of Natural History, pro- 

 ceedings of, 391. 



Bowring, Dr. J. on boracic acid lagoons 



of Tuscany, 270. 



British Annual, by Dr. R. D. Thonasonj 

 noticed, 400. 



British Antarctic Expedition, 397- 



Association, August, 1839, 339.. 

 Naturalists, notices of, bj' Rev. C. 

 Fox, 136. 

 Bronn, Prof, his Lethasa Geognostica, 

 noticed, 369. 



exchanges of specimens of Natu- 

 ral History, 369. 

 Brown coal formation of Texas, 216. 



C. 



Calcareous deposits in Persia, &c., 355. 



Calcium, evolution of, by Dr. Hare, 267, 

 269. 



Caldas on measuring heights by the boil- 

 ing of water, 19. 



Calymene Bufo, remarks on, by Prof, J. 

 Green, 33. 



Carbonic acid, liquefaction of, 398. 



Catlinite, name proposed for Ind. Pipe 

 Stone, 394. 



Chalk, lizards in, 402. 



Christison on alcoholic strength of 

 wines, 363. 



Chronometrical determination of the 

 longitude of New York, 400- 



Cinnabar not found in Michigan, 185. 



Climate of Colombia, II. 



Coal mines, American, explosions in, 



387. 



of Dudley, excursion to, 390. 

 Coal strata of the Trinity County, Tex- 



I as, 216. 



Coathupe on products of respiration at 



different hours, 367. 



Coke, burning, its light used in photog- 

 raphy, 368. 



Cold, points of maximum, connected 



with magnetic poles, 100. 



Colombia, meteorological observations 

 in, by Col. R. Wright, 1, 



Comet of Encke, observed in 1838, 191. 



Conductors of lightning, for ships, re- 

 marks on, by the editors, 323. 



Conjugations, Greek, tables of, by Prof. 

 J. W. Gibbs, 112, 



Copper, native crenated hydro-silicate 

 of, 398. 





D. 



Da Costa, biog. notice of, 155. 

 Daguerre's photographic drawing, 169. 



process for, 374. 

 Darlington's Essay on vegetable meta- 

 morphosis, noticed, 187. 

 Daubeny, Prof, his views of volcanoes, 



thermal springs, &c. 53. 



