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INDEX. 



Iodine, new mode of detecting, G. L. Cantu, 



106. 

 Iron, analysis of wrought, Miller, 276, 

 Italy, climate of, 304. 



J. 



Jackson i C. T., copper of Lake Superior, 2S6. 

 Jasper in Upper California, 257, 261. 



Jobert, A. C, Philosophy of Geology, and 

 Ideas of a new System of Philosophy, no- 

 ticed, 150. 



K. 



Kerguelen's Island, 318. 

 Kilauea, on the old crater adjoining, C. S. 

 Lyman, 237. 



L. 



Lake Superior region, copper and silver of, 



236, 287. 



, Great Salt, 392. 



Pyramid, Upper California, 332. 

 Lane, J £T„ on a novel mode of discharging 



a Leyden battery, 418. 

 Lathrop, S. P., on single and double vision, 



343. 

 Laurent, A., composition of tungstates, 281. 

 Lava of Hecla, F. A Gerttk, 114. 

 Lawrence scientific* school, 303. 



Leyden battery, a novel mode of discharging, 



J. H. Lane, 418. 

 Le Verrier on Neptune, 1 18, 442. 

 Light, effect of different colored rays of, in 



photography, 272. 



, influence of, preventing chemical ac- 

 tion, 272. 



•, on the dispersion of, E. B. Hunt, 364. 



, galvanic, polarization of, C. G. Page, 



375. 



List, J. C, on turpentine camphor, 430. 



Lochaber, parallel roads of, 7. 



Locke, J., on single and double vision, 68. 



^astronomical clock with telegraphic 



register, 206. 



Lyceum of Nat. Hist, of New York, annals 

 of, 311. 



, officers of, 311. 



Lyell, C, nijmmulites of Alabama, 114. 

 Lyman, C. S. t on the old crater adjoining 

 Kilauea, 287. 



on California and the gold mines, 290, 



Manna, J. Stettner, 112. 



Mantell, G. A., Fossils of New Zealand, 28. 



, memoir by, on Belemnites, noticed, 150. 



on Iguanodon, noticed, 150. 



305, 307. 



M. 



Maculloch, on the roads of Lochaber, 7. 

 McCafl, G. A., notes on .Mexican birds, 114. 

 Madeira, height of, 314. 

 Magellan Straits, coal of, 304. 

 Magnesia, nemali'c a hydrate of, 434. 

 Magnetic and meteorological observations at 



Girard College, work on, noticed, 455, 

 Magnetic equator, J. C. Bom, 315. 

 form of force, M. Faraday, 425. 



— m lies influenced by rocks, 315, 322. 



— observations, by J. C. Ross, in his An- 1 

 tarctic voyage, 316, 317, 320, 321, 322, 329. 



pole, position of southern, J. C. Ross, 

 J25. 



Magnetism, see din magnetism. 



Magneto-tangential machine, O.N. Stoddard, 

 43-2. 'jj 



, new discoveries of bones of Iguanodon, 



433 ? 439. 

 Mathematics, fundamental truths of, 5. Alex- 



ander, 178, 329. 

 Mauritius, Dodo and other animals of, 52. 

 Meerschaum of Asia Minor, J. L. Smith,285. 

 Melville on the Dodo, reviewed, 52. 

 Meteor appearances, Antarctic Ocean, J. C. 



Ross, 320. 

 .Meteoric iron of Braunau, N. W. Fischer, 171. 

 Meteoric iron in South Carolina, C. U. Shep- 



ard, 449. 

 Meteorological Journal at Marietta, 5. P. Hil- 



dreth, 240. 

 Meteorology, Piddington's work on, 144. 



, Redlield's labors in, 145, 146 



Mexican birds, notes on, G. A. McCall, 114. 

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

 Microscopes, Spencer's, and on a difficult test 



object, J. XV. Bailey, 265. 

 Milk, mode of preserving, F. H. F. Louis, 431. 

 Miller, analysis of wrought iron, 276. 

 Mines, tin, of Banka, 86. 



in Australia, 138. 



Minerals, Dr. Crawe's cabinet of, for sale,138. 



crystallized by heat, Ebelman, 427. 



, on some American, J. D. Whitney, 433, 



434, 435. 



, Allophane of Richmond, Mass., 416 ; 



Arkansite, identical with Brookite, 433; 

 Axinitein Maine, 286; Bismuth, telluret of, 

 from Virginia, 282; Brandisite, H3;Cancn- 

 nite of Litchfield, Me., 136 ; Ceramohahte, 

 113 ; Chrome of Asia Minor, 285 ; Coal of 

 the Nile, 437 ; Coal of Vancouver's Island, 

 436; Coal of Straits of Magellan, 304 ; 

 Copper of Lake Superior, 287 ; Coracite, 

 434; Ehlite, 113; Emery of Asia Minor, 

 283; Emerylite, ^5 ; Feldspar of Corsica, 

 113; Gibbsite of Richmond, Mass., 411; 

 Gold Mining of Virginia, 295; Gold of 

 Africa, 436; Gold of California, 125, 262, 

 291, 305, 307 ; Hauyne, 435 ; Meerschaum 

 of Asia .Minor, 285 ; gold, mining, of Vir- 

 ginia, 295 ; Nemalite, 434 ; Nosean, 43d ; 

 Ozarkite identical with Scolecite, 434;* 

 Pectolite and stellite identical, 434 ; Plati- 

 num in the Alps, 137; Schorlomite, 433; 

 Silver, native, of Lake Superior, 288 ; Sil- 

 ver, native, of Norway, 305 ; Sodalite of 

 Litchfield, Me., 435; Thjorsauite, 114; 



Volknerite, 113; Vosgite, 113. 

 Mineraiogical Society of St. Petersburg, 



transactions of, 457. 

 Mitchell, Maria, comet medal to, 123. 

 Mollusca, on the boring of, A. Hancock, 288. I 

 Motive power, chloroform used for, 304. 



of water in spheroidal state, 304. 



Mountains of Madeira, height of, 314. 



of Antarctica, 325. 



of Western America, their parallelism 



Ac. 380, 



N. 



Naphtha of Alfreton, Eng., 305. 

 Nautical Almanac, remarks on an American, 

 123. 



