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INDEX. 



Mineral, new, called Beaumontite, 393. 



springs in Texas, 214. 

 Missouri, fall of a meteorite in, 385. 



remains of Mastodon in, 191. 

 Montague, Geo. notice of, 162. 

 Montlosier, Count, biog. notice of, 121. 

 Mortality among troops in W. Indies, 



tables of, 196- 

 Mosander's discovery of Latanium, a 



new metal, 192. 

 Murchison's Silurian Syst., noticed, 219. 



Museums ofNai. Hist, when established 



in England, 143. 



N. 



Naphtha springs in Persia, &c., 353. 

 Natural History, exchanges in, 369. 



society of Boston, pro- 

 ceedings of, 391- 

 Naturali.sts, British, notices of, 136. 

 Needle, dipping, mode of adjusting, 277. 



Needles, how magnetized speedily on 

 shipboard, 325. 



New Brunswick tornado, 255. 



New Haven Centennial Medal descri- 

 bed, 237. 



tornado, account of, 340. 



New York, heights of certain mountains 

 in the stale of, 84. 



packet ship, struck by light- 

 ning, 321. 



City Hall, its longitude de- 

 termined by chronometers, 400. 

 Niepce, his photographic processes, 173, 

 374. 



Notice to subscribers and readers, 200. 



O. 



CErsted on Waterspouts, 250- 



Oil of hemlock, its reaction with sulphu- 

 ric acid, 246. 



Oil of turpentine, how purified from res- 

 in, 399. 



Olmsted, Prof. D., account of the New 

 Haven tornado, 340. 



Ontario Lake, temperature of, 242. 



Owen on the Megatherium, 371. 



P. 



PsEstum, on the stone of which its tem- 

 ples are built, 366. 



Page, Dr. C. G. his magneto-electric 

 multiplier, 275. 



Palaeontology, Prof. Whewell's remarks 

 on, -227. 



Pendulums, e3:periraents on their vi- 

 brations, with different suspending 

 springs, 278. 



Pennant, Thos. notice of, 146. 



Pennsylvania, notice of Prof. H. D. Ro- 

 gers's geological report of, 380. 



Perry, Prof. Thos. H. mode of adjusting 

 the dipping needle, 277. 



Philadelphia, Acad, of Nat. Sciences, 

 their new hall, 399. 



Phillips, R. oncertam chemical equiva- 

 lents, 3G8. 

 Photographic or photogenic drawing, 



169,361,368,374. 

 Pipe-stone, Indian, analysis of, 394. 

 Plants collected near Bethlehem, Pa, 



Catalogue of, 310. 

 Platinum, spongy, action of, 198. 

 Ponton, M., on preparation of paper for 



photography, 361, 

 Porter, Sir R. K. extracts from his trav- 

 els in Persia, &c.. 347- 



great value of his work, 



347. 



Potosi, analysis of meteoric iron from, 



190. 



Proceedings of Boston Nat. Hist. Soc'ty, 

 391. 



R. 



Rain drops, solid impressions and casts 

 of, 371. 



Raphael tapestries, revival of their col- 

 ors, 244. 



Regnault, analysis of mica containing 

 potash and lithia, 356. 



Respiration, products of, at different 

 hours, 367. 



Rich, Charles, on the effects of lightning 

 on the packet ship New York, 321. 



Riddell, Prof. J. L., geology of the Trin- 

 ity Country, Texas, 211. 



Rings of Saturn, five or more in num- 

 ber, 373. 



Robison, John, on photographic draw- 

 ing, 183. 



Rochester, polished limestone of, 240. 



Rogers, Prof. H. D., notice of his geolo- 

 gical report of Pa., 380. 



Rogers, Prof- W. B., notice of his geolo- 

 gical report of Va., 380. 



S. 



Saco river, temperature of, 389. 



Salmon, Wm. biog. notice of, 121. 

 It, deposits of in Per;>ia, &c., 350. 



Salt springs in Texas, 213. 



Sandwich Lsiands, great agitations of 

 the sea at, 358. 



Saturn's rings, five or more seen, 373. 



Schlotheim, Baron, biog. notice of, 128. 



Sciuri, monograph of the, by Dr. J. Bach- 

 man, 290. 



<rim 



Sea, near Sandwich Islands, greatly a 



tated, Nov. 7, 1837, 358. 

 Sedgwick on the Cambrian system of 



rocks, noticed, 220. 



Selby, P. J., notice of, 164. 



Shells, Dr. Jay's catalogue of, noticed, 



401. 



Shepherd, Forrest, account of the fall of 



a meteorite in Missouri, 385. 

 Shooting Stars of August, 1839, &c., 325. 



November, 1838, 372. 



Sibbald, Sir Robert, notice of, 138. 



