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INDEX TO VOLUME VIII 



A. 



Acids of Castor Oil, 106. 



, identity of picric, nitrophenisic and 



chrysolepic, 108. 



sulphur, analysis of some, 109, 110. 



Acid, phosphoric, separation of, H Rose, 

 181. 



, chloroniceic, 412. 



margaritinic, 263. 



nitric, anhydrous, 270. 

 , stearic and margaric, 



Laurent and 



Gerhardt, 270. 



Spring of Tuscarora, T. S. Hunt,36i. 



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Agateiz on Embryology, noticed, 156 



Agricultural Society of iN. Y., transactions 

 of, 307. 



Alhiteof a Corundum locality, 339. 

 Aldehyde, action of alkalies and acids on, 



H Weideubusch, 268. 

 Algas, Genera and Orders of, by J. G. 



Agardh, noticed, 453. 



species of, by F. T. Kutzing, noticed, 

 454. 



— ,Tabula3 phycologicce, by F. T. Kiitzing, 

 noticed, 454. 



~, works on, by W. H. Harvey, noticed, 

 453. 



Algerite, 103. 



Alumina, new hydrosilu ate of, 122. 



Amber, product of distillation of, 114. 



Analyses of phosphates of manganese, 111. 



of 6ome sulphur acids, 109, 110. 



of water of the Mediterranean, 1 16. 



of the Dead Sea, MarcUand, 444. 



of minerals, see Minerals. 



of minerals by B. SiUiman, Jr., 377. 



of bones, 410. 



of bone ea/th, 271- 

 Aneroid barometer, 288. 

 Aniline, decomposition of, by nitrous acid, 



T. S. Hunt, 372. 

 Antarctic cruise of Capt. Ross, 14. 



flora, notice of Hooker's, 161. 



Antimonite of mercury, native, 127. 

 Arctic regions, navigation of, 292. 

 Arkansiie, angles of, Teschemacher, 274. 

 Arkose, 424. 

 Arsenic, an organic compound containing, 



Wbhler, 269. 

 Association, American, for the Promotion of 

 Science, 145. 



, proceedings of, 311, 444. 



British, for 1849,444. 

 Astronomical clock, electric telegraph adapt- 

 ed to, 231. 



expedition to Chile, circular for, 303. 

 Journal, new American, 450 

 Astronomy, outlines of, J. F. W. Herschel, 



456. 

 Atomic weight of potassium, carbon, silver, 



Regnault, 411. 



~ of B ibca, H. Kopp, 414. 



Auroras in the Antarctic, Ross, 16 et seq. 



by W. 







Australia, gold in, 290. 



Aventurine glaze for porcelain, 440. 



B. 



Babingtonite at Athol, Mass., 275. 

 Bagrationite, 126. 

 Baierine, 274. 



Buird, S. F., editor of Iconographic Ency- 

 clopaedia, 451. 

 Baljour's Manual of Botany, noticed, 303. 

 Banca, tin mines of, 291. 

 Barometer, aneroid, 238. 

 Barrande, J., silurian system of Bohemia by, 



noticed, 158. 

 Bartram and Marshall, memoirs of, 



Darlington, noticed, 456. 

 Beiqueret, E., conducting powers of metals, 



185 



, ibid, of solids and liquids, 333. 



, on the attempts to develop electricity 



by muscular contraction, 405. 

 Benzoate of potash, action of chlorine on T 



St. Evre, 1U8. 

 Bemurd,oii the pancreatic juice, 140. 

 Bleu, L. F., product of distillation of amber, 



114. 

 Bodenite, analysis of, 124. 



Bolax glebaria, notice of, 167. 

 Bolhy, P., a new borate of soda, 110. 

 Boltomte, analysis of, 391. 

 Bones, analyses of, 4 10. 

 Borate of soda, new, P. Bolley, 110. 



Botany of Antarctic regions, 16J. 



Botanical works noticed, 3,0, 452, 453. 

 [toutig/ty, facts relating to incombustibility, 



fire ordeal, &c , 431. 

 Boutt, review of Tuomey's report, 61. 

 Bridges, work on military, noticed, 307. 

 Britain, ancient mining in, 96,258. 

 British Museum, 294. 



Association, 444. 



Bromine, impurity of commercial, 116. 

 Brookite identical with Arkansiie, 274. 



-, in .North Carolina, 275. 



Bryce, J., on altered dolomites, 420. 

 Bucholzile, identity of. with kyarute, 387. 

 Bult,B. \V.,on eumlsme, 74,^72. 

 Burr-stone, South Carolina, 72. 



C. 



California gold region, C, S. Lyman, 415. 



gold, 449. 



Cameron s iSautical Slide Rule, notice of, 



309. 

 Canada, report on Geology of, by Logan, 



noticed, 154. 



, Mineral Springs of, T. S. Hunt, 364. 



Caprylone, 271. 



Carbon, volatilization of, 413. 



Carbothialdine, J. Redtenbtnhtr, 107. 



aricography, C. Dtwey, 348. 

 Castor oil. acids of, 106. 



