INDEX TO VOLUME XXXVII. 



A. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, their new hall, 399. 



Acid, carbonic, liquefaction of, 398. 



Agassiz, his work on the Echinoderma- 

 ta, noticed, 369. 



Alcoholic strength of wines, 363. 



Allan, John, on Coins and Medals, 285. 

 New Haven Centennial 

 Medal, 287. 



Amber, on Insects in, by Dr. Berendt, 

 365. 



American Philos. Society, notice of their 

 transactions, 188. 



Antarctic expedition, British, for scien- 

 tific discovery, 397. 



Ararat, extinct volcano near, 349. 



Asaphusdiurus, a new trilobite,40. 



August, shooting stars of, 325. 



Aurora Borealis of Sept. 3, 1839, 375. 



B. 



Babel, ruins of the tower of, 352. 



Bachman, Dr. J. abstract of his mono- 

 graph of the Sciuri, 290. 



Bailey, Prof. J. W. on liquefaction of 

 carbonic acid, 398. 



Barium, on the extrication of, by Dr. 

 Hare, 267. 



Basaltic columns of the Caucasus range, 

 348. 



Bassett, Rev. William, on Lizards in 

 chalk, 402. 



Batchelder, J. M. on temperature of Saco 

 river and adjacent air, 389. 



Baths, hot, near Tiflis, 349. 



Beaumontite, a new mineral, 398. 



Berendt, his work on insects in amber, 

 365. 



Berzelius on meteoric stones, 93. 



Bethlehem, Pa. catalogue of plants col- 

 lected near, 310. 



Bevan, Benj. biographical notice of, 120. 



Bewick, Thos. do. do. 158. 



Biography, scientific, announced by J. 

 W. Webster, 193. 



Bischof, Prof Gustav, natural history of 

 volcanos and earthquakes, 41. 



Black Heath coal mine, explosion in, 

 387. 



Boracic acid lagoons of Tuscany, 270. 



Boston Society of Natural History, pro- 

 ceedings of, 391. 



Bovv^ring, Dr. J. on boracic acid lagoons 

 of Tuscany, 270. 



British Annual, by Dr. R. D. Thomson, 

 noticed, 400. 



British Antarctic Expedition, 397. 



Association, August, 1839, 389. 

 Naturalists, notices of, by Rev. C. 

 Fox, 136. 

 Bronn, Prof his Lethsea Geognostica, 

 noticed, 369. 



exchanges of specimens of Natu- 

 ral History, 369. 

 Brown coal formation of Texas, 216. 



C. 



Calcareous deposits in Persia, &c., 355. 



Calcium, evolution of, by Dr. Hare, 267, 

 269. 



Caldas on measuring heights by the boil- 

 ing of water, 19. 



Calymene Bufo, remarks on, by Prof. J. 

 Green, 32. 



Carbonic acid, liquefaction of, 398. 



Catlinite, name proposed for Ind. Pipe 

 Stone, 394. 



Chalk, lizards in, 402. 



Christison on alcoholic strength of 

 wines, 363. 



Chronometrical determination of the 

 longitude of New York, 400. 



Cinnabar not found in Michigan, 185. 



Climate of Colombia, 11. 



Coal mines, American, explosions in, 

 387. 



of Dudley, excursion to, 390. 



Coal strata of the Trinity County, Tex- 

 as, 216. 



Coathupe on products of respiration at 

 difierent hours, 367. 



Coke, burning, its light used in photog- 

 raphy, 368. 



Cold, points of maximum, connected 

 with magnetic poles, 100. 



Colombia, meteorological observations 

 in, by Col. R. Wright, I. 



Comet of Encke, observed in 1838, 191. 



Conductors of lightning, for ships, re- 

 marks on, by the editors, 323. 



Conjugations, Greek, tables of, by Prof. 

 J. W. Gibbs, 112. 



Copper, native crenated hydro-silicate 

 of, 398. 



D. 



Da Costa, biog. notice of, 155. 



Daguerre's photographic drawing, 169. 

 process for, 374. 



Darlington's Essay on vegetable meta- 

 morphosis, noticed, 187. 



Daubeny, Prof, his views of volcanoes, 

 thermal springs, &c. 53. 



