

INDEX. 



463 



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Navicula Spencerii, and another more dif- 

 ficult test object, J. W. Bailey, 265. 



Nemalite identical with Brucite, 434. 



.Neptune, Le Verrier on the planet, 118, 442. 



New Zealand, fossil birds of, G. A. Mantell, 

 28. 



Nile, exploration of, by Dr. Biallohlotzky \ 138. 



Nitric acid, action of, on sebacic acid, A. 



\ Schlieper, 420. 



Norway, native silver of, 305. 

 Nosean, 435. 



Nummulites of Alabama, C. Lyell, 114. 



O. 



Oakes, Wm. obituary of, 138. 



Obituary of E. Foster, 451. 

 of G. Fownes, 452. 

 of Hommairede Hell, 451. 

 of R. Gilmor, 142. 

 of A. Goldfuss, 143. 



of S.Guthrie, 143. 



of Wm. Oakes, 138. 



of Dr Prichard, 452. 



Obsidian in California, 250. 



Oceanic current around Cape Horn, 316. 



CErsted, H. C, experiments on diamagnetism, 

 233. 



Optics, facts relating to single and double 

 vision, J. Locke, 68. 



ibid, S. P. Lathrop, 343. 



Orang-otang, daguerreotypes of, 303. 



Oregon, on some points in the physical geog- 

 raphy of, J. D. Dana, 376. 



, coast of, 377. 



, mountains of, 380. 



, mines and valleys of, 384. 



, forest and prairie region and climatal 



cause of their distribution, 387, 389. 



Orpheus curvirostris, a Mexican bird, 114. 



Otters in Had ley, Mass., 117. 



Owen on the Dinornis, noticed, 151. 



Oysters, not hermaphrodite, 437. 



Ozarkite identical with scolecite, 434. 



Planet Diana, 10th asteroid, not discovered, 

 290. 



Planets, small, on Olbers's theory respecting, 



S. Alexander, 447. 

 Plants, salt a poison to, 299. 

 of Kcrguelen's Island, 318. 



, American species of Potamogeton, 347. 



, Chenopodiaceae of New York, 167. 



, new and rare, chiefly of the Carolinas, 



P. 



Page, C. G., Polarization of galvanic light, 

 375. 



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Palaeozoic rocks of America and Europe, 

 parallelism of, Ed. de Verneuil, 45, 218. 



Palmer, A. H., memoir on Eastern Countries, 

 noticed, 148. 



Pectolite, 434. 



Penguins in Crozet group, 317. 



Percy, on alloys of tungsten, 276. 



Person, C. C, on relation between elastic- 

 ity of metals and latent heat, 128. 



Petersen's Comet of Aug., 1848, elements 

 of, 122. 



Philosophy of Geology, by A. C. G. Jobert, 



noticed, 150. 

 Phosphorescence of Diamond, 433. 

 Phosphorus, Schrbtter, 111. 



M. A. Curtis, 406. 

 Platinum in the Alps, 137. 

 Plucker, on Diamagnetism, 270. 

 Polarization of galvanic light, C.G. Page, 375. 

 Porter, inorganic constituents of, 102. 

 Possession Island, 317. 

 Potamogeton, American species of, E. Tuck- 



erman, 347. 



Prairies of Upper California and Oregon, 

 247, 256, 387, 389. 



Prichard, Dr., obituary notice of, 452. 



Prince Edward's Island, 317. 



Prizes of Belgium government, 305. 



Proteine, analysis of, and researches on, 109, 

 110. 



Protractor for trisecting angles, J. H. Alex- 

 ander, 243. 



Pyrenestes coccineus, 116. 



R. 



Rain from a clear sky, 335. 

 Randall, W. B., salt a poison to plants, 299. 

 Kedfield's labors in Meteorology, 145. 

 Reptiles, two from Oregon, A. J. Skilton, 202. 

 Riddtll, J. L., rule for involution and evo- 

 lution by logarithms, 232. 

 River terraces, 1, 8, 10. 

 Rocks of Europe and America, parallelism 



of, 45, 218. 



of Upper California, 247. 



Rocky Mountains, characters of, J. D. Dana, 

 376. 



Ross, J. C, Voyage to Antarctic of, review- 

 ed, 313. 



, incorrectness of charge by, against 



American Exploring Expedition under C. 

 Wilkes, U.S.N., 321. 



Rue, W. de la, the Navicula Spencerii, 265. 



S. 



Sacramento region, 256, 261, 305. 



Bute, 259. 



Sailor's Horn Book for Storms, 144. 



t. Pauls Rocks, 315. 

 Salamandra granulosa, 202. 

 Saline on the Kiskiminetas, bittern of, M. H. 



Boy\ 74. 

 Salt incrustations. Upper California, 248. 

 Salt, a poison to plants, 299. 

 Salt \jike, the Great, of Rockv Mountains, 



282. 

 Saturn, eighth satellite of, 122. 

 Scharffer, G. C, on the manufacture of ice, 



280. 



Photography, action of different rays of light, Schlieper, A., action of nitric acid on seba- 



272. 

 Piddington, Sailor's Horn Book, 144 



Pig Island, 317. 

 Pitylus flavo-cinereus, 117. 

 Planet Neptune, Le Verrier on, 118, 

 Saturn, eighth satellite of, 122. 



cic, 420. 

 Schorlomite, examination of, J. D. Whitney, 



433. 



Schroder, on phosphorus, 111. 

 Schunk, on coloring matters, 275. 

 Scotland, terraces of, 7. 



