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INDEX. 



Sea shore and coast formations, peculiarities 

 of, 12. 



Sea elephant, a gigantic seal, 317. 



Sebacic acid, action of nitric acid on, A. 



Schlieper, 420. 



Shark's ieeth of United States, R. W. Gibbes 

 on, 441. 



Shasty Peak and mountains, 249. 



Shells, boring of, in rocks, 288. 



Shepard, C. v., meteoric iron in South Caro- 

 lina, 449. 



Sierra Nevada, California, 380. 



SiUiman, B., review of work on the Dodo, 

 52. 



SiUiman, Jr., B., on Gibbsite and allophane, 

 411. 



Silver, native, of Norway, 305. 

 Siphonotretse, new genera of, 457. 

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

 Smith, on the air and water of towns, 279. 

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

 283. 



, chrome and meerschaum of Asia Mi- 

 nor, 285. 

 Sodalite, 435. 



Solitaire, bird of Mauritius, 62. 

 Soundings near St. Paul's Rocks, 315. 



in iVtlantic, J. C. Ross, 316. 



on the Aguilas Bank, 316. 



in Antarctic regions, 326. 



Spencer's microscopes, 265. 



Spherical geometry and trigonometry, 150. 

 Spheroidal state of water, motive power 

 from using, 304. 



Spinellane or nosean, 435. 

 Sprat.l, Fauna of ^Egean, 309. 

 Spring, chalybeate, in Upper California, 250. 

 Squalidre, fossil, of the United States, R. W. 

 Gibbes, 441. 



Squier, E. 6r., on the Mexican Calendar 

 Stone, 153. 



Staite's electric light, 450. 

 Stantey, A. D., Elementary Spherical Geom- 

 etry and Trigonometry, 150. 

 Star charts, ecliptic, 290. 

 Stellite, 434. 



S teahouse, J., on chloropicrine, 419. 

 Slettner, J., on manna, 112. 



Stoddard, O. N., new mode of amalgamating 

 zinc, 431. 



, a magneto-tangential machine, 432. 



Storms, Piddington's Horn Book for sailors, 

 144. 



Strickland, on the Dodo, 52. 



St. Petersburg, transactions of Mineralogical 

 Society of, 457. 



Subsidence, zones of, proved by fiords, J. D 

 Dana, 380. 



Sulphur, crystallization of, 282. 

 Sulphuric acid springs o£ New York, 175. 

 Syenite of Upper California, 253. 



Telluret of bismuth from Virginia, C. Fisher, 



Jr., 282. 

 Temperature, influence of, on fauna of 



iEgean, 300. 

 Terebol, 430. 

 Terraces, on the study of, J. D. Dana, 1. 



of Scotland and other regions, 4. 



on the Sacramento, 256, 261. 



Kerguelen's Island, 318. 



Tertiary in Upper California and Oregon, 

 260. 



, infusoria of, in Maryland, 437. 



Thjorsauite, 114. 



Tides, at Kerguelen's Island, 320. 



Tin, mines of, on Banka, 86. 



Titanium, researches on compounds of, G. M. 



Ebelman, 106. 

 Trap rocks, Kerguelen's Island, 318. 

 Trees, fossil, Kerguelen's Island, 318. 

 Trinidad, observation on, 315. 

 Tropidolepis scincicauda, 202. 

 Tuckerman, E., American species»of Potam- 



ogeton,347. 

 Tungstates, composition of, A. Laurent, 



281. 

 Tungsten, alloys of, Percy, 276. 

 Turpentine camphor, J. C. List, 420. 



V. 



Verneuil, E. de, Parallelism of American and 



European Rocks, 45, 218. 

 Vesuvius, eruption of, 437. 

 Vidua albonotata, and concolor, 115, 116. 

 Virginia, gold mining in, 295. 

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



, , 6'. P. Lathrop, 443. 



, Berkeley's theory of, D. Brewster, 



273. 

 Volcanic peaks of Western America, 380. 

 rocks of Crozet group, and other islands, 



J. C. Ross, 317 and beyond. 

 Volcano, Antarctic, 328. 



of Vesuvius, eruption of, 437. ^ 



, old, near Kilauea, Hawaii, C. S. Ly~ 







T. 



man, 287. 



Voiknerite, a new mineral, 113. 

 Voltaic, see Galvanic. 

 Vosgite, 113. 



W. 



Walker, S. C, galvanic register astronom- 

 ical clock, 206. 



Water of towns, Report on, Smith, 279. 



Waves, height of, J. C. Ross, 316. 



Wax, B. C. Brodie on, 427. 



Whale fishery, near Kerguelen's 



319. 



Whales in the Antarctic, 324. . . 



Whtwdl, on Berkeley's theory of vision, 



274. 



Whishaw, on gutta percha, 276. 



Whitney, J. /)., Examination of American 



minerals, 433, 134. 

 — , on some silicates containin„ 

 acid, chlorine and sulphuric acid, 435. 

 Winds, influence of course of, on climate, 



Island, 



carbonic 



392. 



Talcose rocks of Upper California, 254, 261, 

 262. 



Taylor, H., on apparent motion of red and 



blue figures in worsted, 132. 

 Tea plantations in India, 135. Z. 



Telegraph register to astronomical clock, Zinc, new mode of amalgamating, O. N. 



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Stoddard, 431. 



