228 
the direction and amount of horizontal 
motion of the air, 38. 
Animals, on certain abnormal structures 
in the crystalline lenses of, 7. 
Antimony, on the heating effect by me- 
chanical operations on a peculiar form 
of, 26. 
Armitage (W. J.) on a few facts con- 
nected with the manufacture of pig iron 
in the neighbourhood of Leeds, 204. 
Army, on phthisis in the, 189. 
Aquaria, on, 133; multiplication of Ac- 
tiniz in, 2b. 
Asia, central, on the volcanoes of, 75. 
Astronomy, 27. 
Atkinson (T, W.) on the volcanoes of 
Central Asia, 75; on a journey through 
parts of the Alatou, in Chinese Tar- 
tary, 144. 
Atmosphere, on the heating of the, by 
contact with the earth’s surface, 36; 
on the pressure of the, and its power in 
modifying and determining hzmor- 
rhagic disease, 138; on the general 
and gradual desiccation of the earth 
and, 155. 
Australia, North-western, on the physical 
geography of, 155. 
Baily (W. H.) on the fructification of 
Cyclopteris Hibernica (/orbes) from 
the Upper Devonian or Lower Carbon- 
iferous strata at Kiltorkan Hill, Kil- 
kenny, 75; on two new species of 
Crustacea (Bellinurus, Xdnig) from the 
coal measures in Queen’s County, Ire- 
land, 76. 
Baines (Edward) address to the Statistical 
Section, 157; on the woollen manu- 
facture of England, with special refer- 
ence to the Leeds clothing district, 
158. 
Baines (W.) on the Yorkshire flagstones 
and their fossils, 78. 
Baker (R.) on the sanitary and industrial 
economy of the borough of Leeds, 164. 
Balloon ascents in England for meteoro- 
logical objects, on the desirableness of, 
39, 
Bank of England, brief review of the ope- 
rations in the, in 1857, 201. 
Barker (R. jun.) on the hematite ores of 
N. Lancashire and West Cumberland, 
106. 
Barometer, aneroid, on the daily compa- 
rison of an, with a Board of Trade 
barometer by captains of ships at sea, 
38. 
Barometers, on a new construction of 
standard portable mountain, 39. 
INDEX II. 
Barrett (L.) on the atlas and axis of the 
Plesiosaurus, 78. 
Bartholomew (W. H.) on steam-tugs em- 
ployed on the Aire and Calder nayiga- 
tion, 205. 
Bateman (Joseph) on the rate of mortality 
in the Metropolitan improved dwellings 
for the industrial classes, 164; on the 
investments of the industrial classes, 
168; on the degree of education of 
persons tried at the Middlesex Ses- 
sions, 2b. 
Batteries, on the construction of floating 
and fixed, 220, 
Bayley (G.) on a floating dry dock, 206. 
Bazley (T.), trade and commerce the 
auxiliaries of civilization and comfort, 
169. 
Bedford (J.) on calorific lichens, 45, 
Bees, on the cause of the instinctive ten- 
dency of, to form hexagonal cells, 122 ; 
on the death of the common hive, 124; 
on the formation of the cells of, 132. 
Belgium, on free trade in, 184, 
Bevan (Dr. G. P.) on the marine shell 
bed of the South Wales coal basin, 
showing the presence of vegetable re- 
mains in the upper coal measures of 
the district, 80. 
Bingley (C. W.) on the peculiar action of 
mud and water on glass, as more espe- 
cially illustrated by some specimens of 
glass found in the lake at Walton Hall, 
near Wakefield, the residence of Charles 
Waterton, Esq., 45. 
Birds, on the migration of, 121; on the 
arrangement of, 122. 
Blackie (W. G.) on the Russo-Chinese 
frontier and the Amoor River, 147, 
Blindness, moon, 19. 
Bombay, on the physical geography of 
the neighbourhood of, 149. 
Bombyx mori, on the occurrence of, in a 
wild state in this country, 130. 
Bones, on the constitution of the mineral 
portion of, 68. 
Booth (Rey. J.) on a general method of 
deriving the properties of umbilical 
surfaces of the second order, having 
three unequal axes, from the properties 
of the sphere, 2; on the mutual rela- 
tions of inverse curves ‘and inverse 
curved surfaces, 8; on an instrument 
for describing spirals, 207. 
Botany, 115, 224. 
Bracebridge (Charles H.) on self-support- 
ing dispensaries, with statistics of the 
Coventry Provident Dispensary, 170. 
Brain, on the anatomy of the, in some 
small quadrupeds, 123, 
