460 



INDEX. 



Budd, J. P., use of gas from furnaces of 



Ysialyfera, 303. 

 Butyric aldehyde, 108. 



C. 



Cabbage plant of Kerguelen's Island, 319. 

 Calendar stone of Mexico, E. G. Squier, 153. 

 California, gold in, 125, 262. 



, climate of, 291. 



, notes on, J. D. Dana, 247. 



, Shasty Peak in, 250. 



chalybeate spring, 250. 



observations on, and on the gold of, C. 



Lyman, 291, 305, 307. 



B physical geogra- 



phy of, J. D. Dana, 376. 

 Californian gulf, discovery of, &c, 378. 



peninsula, 3S8. 



Campbell's Island, Antarctic seas, 322, 323. 



Camphor, Dr. C. List, 430. 



Cancrinite, 433. 



Cantu, G. L., new test of bromine and iodine, 

 106. 



Carey, J., on some N. Y. Chenopodiaceae, 167. 



Carolinas, new and rare plants of, M. A. Cur- 

 tis, 406. 



Cascade mountains, Oregon, 381. 



Caseine, products of decomposition of, 107. 



Cassin, J., new species of birds, 115. 



Ceramohalite, 113. 



Cerotine and cerotol, 428. 



Chambers's Ancient Sea Margins reviewed, 1. 



Charts, ecliptic star, 290. 



Chemical action, light preventing, R. Hunt 

 272. 



Chemical analysis, work on, by J. E. Bow- 

 man, noticed, 455. 

 Chemistry, Gmelin's, noticed, 456. 

 Chenopodiacee from near New York, J. 



Carey, 167. 



Chimpanzee, daguerreotypes of, 303. * 

 Chloroform used for motive power, 304. 



as a solvent, 305. 



Chloropicrine, J. Slenhouse, 429. 

 Chribtmas Harbor, Kerguelen's island, 318. 

 Chromic iron of Asia Minor, J L. Smtth, 285. 

 Claudet, effect of different colored rays of 



light in photography, 272. 



Climate of Upper California, 248, 291, 389. 

 of Italy, 304. 



— — of Tierra del Fuego, 392. 



Clirnatal cause of distribution of forests and 

 prairies in western America, 389. 



Coal, on the comparative value of, for illu- 

 mination, A. Fyfe, 77, 157. 



in the straits of Magellan, 304. 



Kerguelen's Island, 318. 



on the Nile, 436. 



of Vancouver's Islands, 436. 



Coast Survey Report for 1847-1848, noticed, 



Oil* 



Color brown, existence of, E. Brucke, 129. 



Colors red and blue in worsted, apparent mo- 

 tion in figures of, 132. 



Coloring matters, Report on, E. Schenk, 275. 



Coluraba leucoptera, 115. 



Comet, new, of G. P. Bond, Nov., 1848, 123. 



— i 1 of April 1 1, 1849, discovered by 



G. P. Bond, 449. 



Petersen's, of Aug.. 1848. 122. 



Comet medal given to Miss Mitchel, 123. 

 Copper of Lake Superior, C. T. Jackson, 



286. 

 Coral near Prince Edward's Island, 317. 

 of antarctic regions, 327. 



Cotton, American, in India, 135. 

 Crawe, cabinet of minerals for sale, 138. 

 Crozet's group of islands, 317. 

 Crystallization, artificial, of gems, Ebelman, 

 427. 



Current around Cape Horn, J. C. Ross, 316. 

 Curtis, M. A., new and rare plants, chiefly of 



the Carolinas, 406. 

 Cuttle fish, leap over ship, J. C. Ross, 316. 



D. 



Dana, J. D., review of Chambers's Ancient 

 Sea Margins, with observations on the 

 study of terraces, 1. 

 — , notes on Upper California, 247. 

 — - on modes of occurrence of gold in 



California, 262. 



on some points in the physical geogra- 



phy of Oregon and Upper California, 376. 

 — , fiord zones of the globe, and their bear- 

 on areas of subsidence, 379, 380. 



in 



De Candolle's Prodromus, pars xii, 309. 



Decomposition of albumen, &c, new pro- 

 ducts from, 107. 



Deville, crystallization of sulphur, 282. 



Diamagnetism, experiments on, H. C. (Ers- 

 ted, 233. 



Plucker, 270. 



Diamond, compact, of Brazil, 433. 

 phosphorescence of, 433. 



of ale 



Diana, the 10th asteroid, denial of discovery 



of, 290. 

 Dickson, T., inorganic constituents 



and porter, 102. 

 Dinornis, Owen's memoir on, noticed, 151. 

 Dispersion of light, E. B. Hunt, 364. 



, bones of, G. A. Mantell, 28. 



Dodo, review of Strickland and Melville on 



52. 

 Drift, remarks on, 2. 



E. 



East Island, 317. 



Ebelman, G. M., researches on compounds o^ 

 titanium, 106. 



, artificial crystallization of gems, 427. 



Ecliptic star charts, 290. 



Ehlite, analysis of, 113. 



Elasticity of metals and latent heat, coeffi- 

 cient between, C. C. Person, 128. 



Electric battery, Leyden, a novel mode of 

 discharging, J. H. Lave, 418. 



Electric light, Staites, 450. 



Emery formation of Asia Minor, J. L. Smith, 

 283. 



Emery lite, a now mineral, J. L. Smith, 28a. 



Ethnological Society Transactions, 456. 



Euplectes nigroventris, 116. 



Eyes, why one object seen with two, 

 Locke, 68. 



. ibid. S. P. Lathrov. 343. 



J. 



F. 



Faraday, M., crystalline polarity of bismuth 

 &c, and magnetic form of force, 425. 



