INDEX TO VOLUME IV. 





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Association of American Geologists and Nat- 

 uralists, officers of, 146. 

 9 list of memoirs read at 



the meeting in September, 4:27. 

 Astronomy, progress of, 240. 

 Atmospheric waves, report on, TV. R. Birt, 



433. 

 Atomic number of Titanium, 103. 



Atoms, see Molecules. 



Atomic volume of some isomorphous oxyds 

 of the regular system, C. Gerhardt, 405. 



Aurora borealis, notice of a report on, by a 

 commission to Scandinavia, 142. 



Auroral belt of April 7, 1847, E. C. Her- 

 rick, 145. 



arches, height of, T. Chevallier, 436. 



Australia, fossils from, J. D. Dana, 151. 



, copper of, 255. 



B. 



Bacon, Dr., microscopic examination of gun- 

 cotton, 448. 

 Bailey, J. TV., notice of d'Orbigny's work 



on Foraminifera, 452. 



Bakewell, R., on the Whirlpool and Rapids, 

 Niagara, 25. 



Barbadoes, geological structure of, R. H. 

 Schomburgk, 416. 



Basalt of Lake Superior, 118. 



Basilosaurus, J. Miiller, 421. 



Beaches, ancient sea, R. Chambers, 323. 



Beaver in Alabama, 285. 



Ben, fat acids of the oil of, 271. 



Berzelius, on ozone, 265. 



Bessel, F. 11 "., Life, Researches and Discove- 

 ries of, 305. 



, zones of stars, begun, 311. 



Bin, \V. R., on atmospheric waves, 433. 



Bismuthic gold, 281. 



Blowpipe, oxyhydrogen, improvements by 



R. Hare, 37. 



_ — -, , apparatus for fusion of Rhodium, 



Iridium, &c, R. Hare, 44. 



Bond, W. C, comet seen by, .My. 1847,287. 



, nebula in Orion resolved by the Cam- 

 bridge Telescope, 426. 



Boracite, amorphous, Karsfen, 415. 



Boston Society of Nat. Hist., Pioceedings of, 



Aniline, compounds of phosphoric acid with, I 149,303. 

 C. Nicholson. 108. ! Botanical notes on Madeira, TenenfTe and 



-* - • - the Cape de Verds, from Vogel's Voyage, 



119. 



Garden at Kew, 249. 



, on colored glass for glazing 



A. 



Academy of Nat. Sciences, Philadelphia, 



Proceedings of, 149, 303, 455. 



, new series of Journal, in 4to, 440. 



Acetate of lime, formed in coal pits, 275. 

 Acid, in the North American columbite, H 



Rose, 403. 



pjrussic, new test for, J. Liebig, 101. 

 , tartaric, fermentation of. 271. 

 Acids, fat, of the oil of Ben, P. Walter, 271. 

 Acid reaction of gastric juice, 102. 

 Adams, T. B., experiments with gun-cotton 

 in blasting, 139. 



Adulteration of olive oil, mode of detecting, 

 272. 



Agassiz, Prof., analogy between the fossi 



flora of Europe and recent of America, 

 424. 



-, accepts a professorship in Harvard, 449. 



Agricultural Botany, notice of Darlington's, 

 451. 



Alabama nummulite limestone, age of, C. 

 Lyell, 186. 



-, beaver in, 285. 



Albuminous substances, changes undergone 



by, in the stomach during digestion, Prof. 



Mulder, 402. 

 Alcargene, relations of glycocoll with, T. 



S. Hunt, 108, 266. 

 Alcohol, detection of traces, 102. 



' , anhydrous, Casoria, 107. 



Alumina, separation of, from oxyd of iron, 



TV. Kuop, 102. 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 



proceedings of, 455. 

 Ammonia, nitrate of, on the decomposition of, 



E. Millon, 269. 



, influence of, on nutrition of animals, 

 73. 



, bicarbonate of, exhaled from the lungs, 

 274. 



Ammonium, sulphocyanid, new method for, 



J. Liebi 101,269. 

 Analysis, Outlines of Qualitative, followed 



in the Gi sen Laboratory, notice of, 455. 



Anatomical homologies, and fundamental 



type of the vertebrate skeleton, JR. Owen, 

 123. 



vegetation 



Animal chemistry, researches in, J. Liebig, 

 135, 298. 



, . Prof. Mulder, 403. 



Ansf»d, D. T., works on Geology, noticed, 



o00, 



Antarctic Ocean, dii 



of, J. Hooker, 424. 

 Anthracite coa 1 , vegetation of, J. E. Tesche- 



macher n 420. 

 Architects, Hints to Voung, a work by G. 



A htunck, noticed. 302. 

 Arkaniite, account , C. V ^hepard, 279. 

 Arsenic in vinegar, 272. 



Palm house at, 431. 

 Botany, some observations on progress in, 



-51. 



, Darlington's Agricultural, notir 1. 



Boyd, analysis of a concretion Irorn a horse's 



ston ;h, 274. 

 ■, acetate of lime formed in coal pits, 275. 



British Association, sever, snth meeting, ad- 

 dress of the President, 238. 



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