INDEX. 



463 



Phosphoric acid, separation of, H. Rose, 181. 



Phycologia Britannica, by W. H. Harvey, 

 noticed, 453. 



Picric acid, identity of, with nitrophenisic 

 acid, 108. 



Pis torn esite, 121. 



Pitchblende, crystallized, 126. 



Planet, new, discovered by Gasparis, 145. 



Hygeia, elements of, 428. 



Plants of Antarctic regions, 161. 

 , geographical distribution of t 162. 



of ISew England, Oakes's herbarium of* 



Zj S, 



Platinum in California, 294. 

 Plimane,a new mineral, 127. 

 Plumbic ochre in Mexico, 420. 

 Pliirker, magnetic relation of crystals, 430. 

 Polarization of heat, Frovosfaye and Des* 

 sains, 410. 



Porcelain, aventurine glaze for, 440. 

 Potassium, specific heat of, Regnault, 411. 

 Prime meridian, Davis, 394. 

 Pringlea amiseorbutica, notice of, 165. 

 Pulley, curve described by a moveable, 252. 

 Pyrophylliteof Spaa, 122. 

 ID U. States, 274. 



Q. 



Quinic acid, chlorinated products of decom- 

 position of, 412. 



R. 



Rnfinesque, mounds of Kentucky, 1. 

 Railroad and Canal routes to Pacific, report 

 on, by J. A. RockweB, noticed, 456. 



Rain, mean annual amount, 54. 



Randanite, a new mineral, 120. 



RtdUnbacher, ./., on taurine, 107. 



, on carhothialdine, 107. 



Regnault, V., specific heat of potassium, 411. 

 atomic weight of silver, carbon, potas- 

 sium, 411. 



Rrid, H m., new work on Storms, noticed, 454. 



Report on Railroad and Canal routes be- 

 tween the Atlantic and Pacific, by J. A. 

 Rockwell^ 456. 



Reymond, de Bois, on the deflection of the 

 magnetic needle by the act of volition, 404. 



• , observations by, reviewed, 405, 406. 



Rocks of South Carolina, 62. 



, decomposition of, Ebelmen, 421. 



Rockwell, J. A., report by, on Railroad and 

 Canal routes between the Atlantic and 

 Pacific Oceans, 456. 



Rose, H ., separation of phosphoric acid, 181. 



Ross's Voyage to the Antarctic, reviewed, 14. 



S. ■ 



Saalmiiller, acidB of castor oil, 107. 



, on margaratinic acid, 263. 



Salisbury, J. H , on maize, noticed, 307. 

 Savage % V. S., on Troglodytes gorilla, 141. 

 Schreibersite, 440. 

 Sea margins. R. Chambers on, 33. 



, J. D. Dana, 86. 



Sea-Side Book, by Dr. W. H. Harvey, no- 

 ticed, 453. 

 Sea-weed of the Falklands, 170. • 



Seebeck, L. F. W. A., obituary of, 450. J 



Secchi, A., curve described by a moveable 

 pulley, 252. 



Senarmont, H. de, on the formation of min- 

 erals, 421. 



Shepard, C. U., localities of minerals in N. 

 Carolina, WavelJite in Georgia, and Bab- 

 ingiomte in Mass., 275. 



Shepardite, 440. 



Shooting stars of April and August, '49, 429. 



Silica, native hydrated, 120. 



Silliman, B., Jr., analyses of American min- 

 erals, 377. 



Sillimanite, identity of, with fibrolite, kyan- 

 ite, bucholzite, 3i6. 



Silver, solubility of clilorid of, III. 



, atomic weight of, Regnault, 411. 



Silvering glass by gun cotton, 117. 



Smithsonian Institute Report, noticed, 158 f 

 306. 



South Carolina, Tuomey's Geological Re- 

 port, reviewed, 61. 



Spheroidal state of bodies, incombustible 

 man, &c , 431. 



Sprugue, I., Genera of Plants by, noticed, 



Abl. 



Squier, E. G., ancient monuments of Ken- 

 tucky, 1. 



St. Evre, action of chlorine on a benzoate, 



108. 

 Stadeler, products of decomposition of quinic 



acid, 412. 

 Stannine, a new mineral, 127. 

 Stearic acid, composition of, 270. 

 Steatite, analysis of, 122. 

 Stercorite in guano, 130. 

 Stilbite, composition of, 123. 



Storms, W. Reia"s new work on, noticed 



455. 

 Sugar, MaccvUocfis report on, 150. 

 Sulphur acids, analysis of some, 109, 110. 



Sulphuric acid, action of iron and zinc with 

 anhydrous, 271. 



Talc of Rhode Island, analysis of, 122. 



Taurine, J Redtenbachtr, 107. 



Telegraph, velocity of galvanic wave, 5. C. 



Wufker, 142. 

 Telluric Bismuth, Brazil, 127. 

 Temperature of .New Zealand and Auckland 



Ids, 22, 23. 



of Antarctic ocean, 24 et seq. 



i diurnal variations of, 42, 218, 350. 

 , loss of, from nocturnal variation, 45, 



218. 

 Terraces, R. Chambers, 33. 



, J. D. Dana, 86. 



Tertiary of South Carolina, 67. 

 Teschemacher, angles of arkansite, 274. 

 Thomson, R. D., law of balance of food in 



nutrition, 435. 

 Tierra del Fuego, plants of, 163. 

 Tin mines of Hanoi, 291. 

 Thomson's Introduction to Meteorology, 305. 

 Topaz, in North Carolina, 873, 

 Topographical Bureau, works by, 306, 307. 

 Troglodytes gorilla, T. S, Savage and J, 



Wyman, 141. 



Troost, Dr., geological survey of Tennessee, 

 by, 419. 



