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INDEX. 



Hunt, T. S., review of Gerhardt's Preci 

 93, 171. 



■, on the relation of aleargene and gly- 

 cocoll, 108, 266. 



, action of sulphuretted hydrogen on ni- 

 tric acetone, 350. 



Hydrocyanic acid, new test for, 101. 



Hydro-oxygen blowpipe, R. Hare, 37. 



I. 



India, iron and coal in, 109. 



Indian Mounds, hieroglyphical mica from, 



145. 



, remarks on, 439. 



Inglis, R. H., address before the seventeenth 



meeting of the British Association, 238. 

 Iowa meteoric stones, fall of, 288, 429. 

 Iridium, apparatus for fusion of, R. Hare, 44. 

 Iris, new planet, discovery of, 425. 

 Irish sea-fisheries, resources of, 437. 

 Iron, compounds of, with carbon, 104. 



and coal in India, 109. 



Lsodynamic lines of N. America, 197. 

 Isomorphous oxyds of the regular system, 



atomic volume of, C. Gerhardt, 405. 



J. 



Johnson, G. W., Dictionary of Modern Gar- 

 dening, 148. 



K. 



Karsten, compounds of iron with carbon, 104. 



, amorphous boracite, 415. 



Kew, Botanical garden at, 249. 



, colored glass for glazing 



Palm house, 431. 



Key.ssrung, Count, Geology of the Petschora 

 Land, noticed, 419. 



Light, influence of, on growth of plants, R . 

 "Hunt, 410, 431. 



, new theory of polarization of, Prof. 



ChalUs, 412. 



Lightning, protection against, W. S. Harris, 

 430. 



Limnaeus stagnalis, ear of, 131. 



Linen, detection of cotton in, 106. 



Lonsdale, W., remarks on some tertiary cor- 

 als in reply to Mr. Dana, 357. 



Loom is, E., magnetism of the U. States and 

 vicinity, 192. 



, account of a water-spout, 362. 



Lunar theory, progress in, 242, 243. 



LyelL C, on the coal field near Richmond, 

 Va., 113. 

 , new edition of Principles of Geology, 



147. 



, age of nummulite limestone of Alaba- 



ma, 186. 



M. 



Madeira, notes on plants of, 119. 

 Magnetism, terrestrial, Prof. XV. A. Norton, 



If 207. 

 , relations of heat and, IV. A. Norton, 1, 



207. 



, of the U. States and vicinity, E. 



Loomis, 192. 



, observations by Major Gra- 

 ham, Prof. Locke, and Capt. Lefroy, 192. 

 -, influence of trap rock on, 198. 



I 



L. 



Lake Superior, mass of native copper from, 

 115. 



•, columnar basalt on, 118. 



Lalnnde, star observed by, identical with 

 Neptune, 133. 



Latent heat, effect in caoutchouc, and ne- 

 cessity of to elasticity, C. G. Page, 341. 



I^awrence, Hon. Abbot, munificent donation 

 of, to Harvard, 146, 294. 



Level, changes of, indicated by sea beaches, 

 R. Chambers, 323. 



Lexicon Scientiarum, by H. McMurtne, no- 

 ticed, 154. 



Litbig, J., new test for prussic acid, 101. 

 , new method for sulphocyanid of ammo- 

 nium, 101. 



. tact in physiological chemistry, 135, 



298. 



, composition of quinoidine, 271. 



Light, on the production of, by heat, J. W. 

 Draper, 388. 



, from incandescence, commences to ap- 



Mammoth, food, distribution, <fec. of, R. 



Owen, 13. 



Manganese, separation of cobalt from, 2/1. 



Mantell, G. A., Geology of Isle of Wight, 

 147 230. 



Manual of Road Making, W. Gillespie, 148. 



Matter, general remarks on molecular con- 

 stitution of, J. D. Dana, 382. 



MCaU, G. A., a new species of Columba, 



421. 

 McMurtrie, H., Lexicon Scientiarum of, no- 



Mercury, congelation of, by virtue o[ the 



spheroidal state, 101. 

 Meteoric iron of Walker Co., Alabama, 74. 



of Scribe, N. Y., 75. 



J of Babb's Mill, Tenn., 76. 



of Burlington, N. V., 77. 



of Hommoney Cr., N. C, 7VJ. 



of Black Mountain, N. C, 82. 



of Cocke Co , Tenn., 83. 



. of Randolph Co., N . C,So. 



of Bedford Co., Penn., 85. 



of Otsego Co., N. Y., 85. 



ofFranconia, N.H., 87. 



Meteoric stones, fall of, in Iowa, C. V. ^tiey 



ard, 288. MnQ 



_, , , J. Barney, 429. 



- of Concord, N. H , B. SiUiman, Jr., 



353. 



Meteorites, Report on, C. U. Shepard, 74. 

 Mica, hieroglyphical, from the Indian raounos, 



145. ' . ir 



pear at the same temperature for different .Microscopic organisms, Barbadoes, 4io. 



bodies, 389. , 1 in Sirocco dust, 423. f 



, color of rays from incandescent bodies, Millon, E., on the decomposition oi nitric 



391. 



— , relation of brilliancy of, to tempera- 

 ture, 395. r 



different properties of various rays of, 

 on Daguerrolype plates, 409. 



ammonia, 269. 



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erite, life ; Oxyd of cobalt with brow 



