INDEX TO VOLUME XXIV. 



A. 



Academy of Sciences at Paris, Prizes of, 255. 



Bee Pro' eerlitigs. 

 Acids, or^nnoihionir^, J42. 



inonobasir, nmids of, 142, 

 Acid, g!yo\aIie, 4'26. 



formula of oxalic, 425. 

 Alcohol, on a new biacid, Limprxcht^ 262. 

 Aluminium, 261. 

 Amer. Assoc. Proceedings, 301. 



eleventh meeting, list of papers, read 

 at, 301. 

 Amids of monobasic acids, Cahours^ 142. 

 Ammonia-i'obalt bases, Gibb^ and Genlh, 86. 

 Amylene, preparation of, 412. 

 Analysis, use <»f the prism in qualitative, 



Ghdstonp, 263. 

 Anesrhesis by ovyd of carbon, 412. 



by carbonic acid, 412. 

 Arctic polar sea, obbcrvalions on, 247. 



lurf, Kune, 242. 

 Artesian wells, aeraring water of, 26L 



well of Motidorf, 153. 



Artificial corundnm, Gaudin^ 273. 

 Ash o{ Lyc(>p(»dium, 143. 

 Association, see American and British. 

 Astronomical observatory at Harvard, annals 

 of, noticed, 448. 



observations, for 1848, M. F. Maury^ 447. 



prizes for 1856, Lalande, 25^. 



srnr charts, notice of, 415. 

 Astronomy by H. Bouvifs^ noticed, 159. 

 Aublrian Exploring Expedition, 260. 



Bache, A, D„ Terrestrial Magnetism in Uni- 

 ted States. 1. 



BuiUy^ J. W.^ bequest by, to the Bost, Soc 

 Nat Hist , 155. 



Burnard^ J. G , (m the gyroscope, 49. 



Btntkam^ G t im generic nomenclature, 284. 



on genus Clitoria, 282. 



Berktiti/, J., on Cryptogamic botany, noticed, 



Bermuiias, nfrtes on, A Scott, 274- 

 Berthelot, on combinntions of bydracids and 



hydrocarburet*^, 423. 

 Be tolouf. Miscellanea Botanica, noticed, 287 



Bibliographic notices by N/chlis^ 262, 413. 

 Blodgets U. S. Climalidogy, noticed, 2y9. 



Bonaparte, C. L., death of, 299. 

 Boron, 26 1 , 



Botany, new works noticed by A. Gray ; of 

 Be^kel(^J^ 151; H Hoffmann, 153; CfLeh- 

 mann,153; R.Caspary, 154: A.l.'hatinJ55; 

 Linn Soc. Proceedings, 281 ; by C Muel- 

 ler, 2?^G^ nertoKini, 287; Harvey, 233; 

 Henfrey*s Elementapy Course of Botany, 

 434 ; iNaudin's fiesearches, 440. 



monstrosity of Saponaria officinalis, 281. 

 Btrtiham on genns Cliloria, 2a3. 

 Jndigofera Caroliniana, 288, 

 New Carrces, V. DfWf-tf, 4^1. 

 nomenclafwre in, G. Bcntham on, 2S4. 

 Botanist Michaux, memoir of, Durand, 161. 

 Bonr'tvr's Astronomy, noticed. 159. 

 Bnidl*^y^ F. H , discovery of new fossils in 



the Potiidam Sandstone, 434. 

 Breiid from fern root, 281. 



Bridges of iron, history of, 258. 

 British Association, addrcbs of president of, 

 415. 



Brush, G. J., on dechenite, 116. 

 on parathonte, 1 16. 

 on antigorile, 128, 



Cchours^ amids of monobasic acids, 142. 



new derivatives of salicyl, 423. 

 Calciilaiin^ machine, Swediah, specimen: 



tables, noticed, 447, 

 Caric(kgraphy,. C Dnury, 46, 

 Carbon, protosulphid of, 426.- 

 dasamajor, P^ a Jiew mode of measuring 



crystals, 251. 

 Cnspjry, R, Consp. Syst. Hydrillearum, 



noticed, 154. 

 Cauchyv A., death of, 299, 408. 

 Ch'diu, A., ou Vafcliiiitria spiralis, noticed,- 



155. 

 Chemistry, inverse subytittuions in, 423* 



iheory *>f suhsiiuiiions in, 410. 

 China, Vellovv river, xU^Jc^'Ottjan, 278. 

 rhlerrds at W^nvios, 273. 

 Chromium, bh>wpipe a?tsay of, llUgard, 387, 



cry.-.talltzed, etc., 141. 



Clarh^ T E., Inuagural disFcrlation of, no- 

 ticed, 447. 



Clai«^<lficaIion of mammals, origin of, natural 

 sy>tem, 410. 



Cleavage, slaty, 150. 



Climaioinpy oJ U. ^tatcs, by L. Blodget^ no- 

 ticed, 2yy. 



Coast Ssurvey Report, 1855, 159. 

 *^CubaIt, equivalent of, 427. 





