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INDEX. 



Rhynchospora Kneiskernii, J. Carey. 25. [(Superior, Lake, mass of native copper from, 



Road Making, W. Gillespie's Manual of, 148. F. Shepherd, 115. 



Rose, H, on the acid in the North American' , , columnar basalt on, 118. 



Columbite, 408. 

 Roval Society, historical remark relating to, 



256. 

 Rucu-Pichincha, exploration of the volcano, 



417. 

 Russia, Geology of the Petschora Land, by 



Count Keyserling, 419. 



S. 



Saint Hilaire, A. de, on the Minhocao, 130. 

 Sandstone, Bristol, Ct., containing fossil 



trees, 116. 

 Schomburgk, R. H., on the Barbadoes, 416. 

 Schonbein. C. F., patent of, for gun-cotton, 



138. 



, properties of ozone, 320. 



, on the discovery of gun-cotton, 440. 



Schrbttr, Bessel assistant to, 307. 



Sea margins, ancient, R. Chambers, 323. 



Sharpe, D., on slaty cleavage, 110. 



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



, mineralogical notices, (Tautolite, Ar- 



kansite, native platinum in North Caroli- 

 na,) 278. 



, fall of meteoric stones in Iowa, 288. 



* — - — — — — - — - — , - 



Shepherd, F., mass of native copper, Lake 

 Superior, 115. 



, on drift furrows, scratches, &c, Lake 



Superior, 282. 



, habits of Notonecta glauca, 423. 



Siberian mammoth, 13. 

 Silliman 

 116. 





, meteoric stone of Concord, N. II., 353. 



Sirocco dust, microscopic animals in. Ehren- 

 berg, 423. 



Slaty cleavage, D. Sharpe, 110. 



Smith, H.L., Natural Philosophy for the use 



of Schools, by, noticed, 302. 



Smith, J. Lawrence, in Turkey, 449. 



Smithsonian Institution, first publication of, 

 438. 



Snow, cylindrical masses, in Orkney, 292. 

 Soda, action of caustic, on a stone jar, 105. 

 Soils, nitrification and fertilization of, F.Kuhl- 

 mann, 107. 



Soutli America, exploration of the volcano of 



Rucu-Pichincha, 417. 

 Spheroidal state, congelation of mercury, by, 



Squier, E. G., hieroglyphical mica from the 

 mounds, 145. 



, publication of, under the Smithsonian 



Institution, 438. 



Stone jar, action of caustic soda on, 105. 

 Strickland, H. E., on the Dodo and allied 

 birds, 422. 



Sulphato-chlorid of copper, a new mineral, 



Prof. Connell, 415. J. I). Dana, 360. 



Sulphuretted hydrogen, action of, on nitric , genera Madrepora and Ucuiina, 



acetene, T. S. Hunt, 350. I mar ks on, J. D. Dana, 361. 



— , , Tautolite on north shore, 278. 



! T. 



Tantalite, on the acid in the North American, 



H. Rose, 408. 

 Tartaric acid, fermentation of, 271. 

 Tautolite on north shore of Lake Superior, 



Telescope, flew, of Cambridge, nebula m 

 Orion resolved by, 426. 



Teneriffe, notes on plants, &c. of, 121. 



Teschemacher, J. E., fossil vegetation of an- 

 thracite coal, 420. 



Titanium, equivalent number of, 103. 



Tobacco, mode of determining the amount ot 



nicotine in, 272. 

 Transit corrections, theory of, E. F. Burr, 



258. 

 Trap tuff of Connecticut valley, 199. 



Trees, fossil, Bristol, Ct. 116 

 Tuomey, cranium of the Zeuglodon, 14y, ^w. 

 Turkey, J. Lawrence Smith chemist and geol- 

 ogist in, 449. 



V. 



Vanilla, production of, in Europe, 445. 

 Varrentrapp and WiWs method for nitrogen, 



improved, E. N. Horsford, 267. 

 Verds, Cape, notes on, 123. . 



Vertebrate skeleton, type and homologies oi, 



R. Owen, 123. 

 Vinegar, arsenic in, 272. q 

 VogeVs voyage to the Niger, notes from, I V9. 

 Volcanic eruption at the Cape Verds, 14b. 

 grit of Connecticut valley, E. Hitcft- 



cock 199 *r 



Volcano, Rucu-Pichincha, exploration of, 417. 



W. 



Walker, S. C , identity of Neptune with a 



star observed by Lalande, 165. 

 Waters, chemical examination of several, 



from Hartford, Ct., B. W Bull, £*>■ 

 Water-spout, an account of one, E. uxmu, 



Water power of Europe, 14^. , 



Weights and measures, Prussian standard, 



fixed by Bessel, 316. +*-**** 



WethenU, C. M., analysis of a concretion 



from a horse's stomach, 2/4. 

 Will, H., Outlines of the Giessen course oi 

 Qualitative Analysis, 455. 



Z. 



Zeuglodon, cranium of, M. Tuomey, 149, 283. 



, Prof. J. Muter on, 421. 



Zoophytes, remarks on formation of coral, 



