INDEX. 



403 



Emerson, G. B., on a new paper from 



beach grass, 386. 

 Emmons, E., report on the 2d Geol. dis 



trict, 23. 

 Encroachments of the sea in N. Y., 16. 

 Erman, M. Jr., letter to M. Arago, 205. 

 Erratic blocks, 20. 



Prof, intruder on, 328, et. seq 

 Essex county, Geol. report on, of by E 



Emmons, 23. 

 Etherine, destructive distillation of, 76. 

 Europe, (Continental) price of labor in, 



176. 

 European observations on the meteoric 



shower of Nov., 1838,179. 

 Experiments on the iron of Essex county, 



N. Y.,94. 

 Exploring expedition, U. S., progress of, 



195. 



Failure of water in steam boilers detected 

 by galvanoscope, 141. 



Falls of Niagara, and river, 49. 



Fibrous carbonate of lime, 113. 



Fires, circular, occasioning columnar 

 whirlwinds, 50. 



Fish skins, mode of preparing, 196. 



" Fishes of Massachusetts," reviewed by 

 Dr. Storer, 337. 



Floras, local commencement of, 22r>. 



Floyd, Mr. J., account of whirlwind in 

 India, April, 1838, 71. 



Footsteps of Chirotherium in sandstone, 

 394. 



Fossil fish in red sandstone, 186. 



Foster, J. W., head of Mastodon gigan- 

 teum, 191. 



Fox, Chas., notice of Kilee or Boome- 

 rang, 164. 



notice of new mode of prepar- 

 ing fish skins, 196. 



notice of British naturalists, 217 



Fresh immersion of galvanic batteries, 

 137. 



Frodsham, W. I., elected a member of 

 the Royal Society, 195. 



Frozen ground in Siberia, depth of, 210. 



Frozen wells, 184. 



Fucoides and ripple marks, 46. 



G. 



Galvanic batteries, fresh immersion of, 



137. 



magnets, mode of preparing, 335. 



mode of construction, 124. 



Galvanoscope, use of, to detect failure of 



water in steam boilers, 141. 

 Gay-Lussac's opinion on volcanic action 



examined, 226 

 Gas inflammable, disengaged at many 



places in N. Y., 6. 



Gasconade county, Mo., mammoth in, 

 199. 



Geine, constitution of, 369. 



quantity of, in soils of Mass., 371. 

 sources of supply, 376. 



Geodiferous limestone of Prof. Eaton, 38. 



Geological reports on State of N. Y., ci- 

 tations from,l. 



Geologists of N. Y.and Penn., referred to 

 the cherty limerock, by A. Eaton, 61. 



Geology of Maine and Mass., reports on, 



Bakevvell's, 3d Am. edition of, 201. 

 Geology of Mass., (economical,) by Prof. 



Hitchcock, examined, 363. 

 Geological reports, several acknowledg- 

 ed, 400. 



Geothermometer of Dr. Mangus, 203. 

 Genera of Sphinges, 384. 

 Geyser great, account of, 255. 

 Globules in the blood analogous to Pro- 



tococcus kermesinus 2(J6. 

 Gould, A. A., minutes of the procedings 



of the Boston Society of Nat. Hist., 379. 

 on spongia, called Neptune's 



goblet, 386. 

 Granite occurring in N. Y., 23. 

 Graywacke of Hudson river, 69. 

 Great fires occasioning whirlwinds, 55. 

 Greece, revival of letters in, 192. 

 Greenwood, Rev. F. W. P., and Dr. 



Gould, on a species of Thracia, and on 



fruits from Burmah, 380. 

 Gypsum in marles and slates, 38. 



pure, prejudice against, 43. 



H. 



Hall, James, at the 4th geological district 



ofN. Y.,6. 

 Hardening of iron, 42. 

 Hare, Clarke, on destructive distillation 



of oil of wine, 76. 

 Harris, T. W., catalogue of N. Ameri- 

 can insects of the genus sphinx in his 

 cabinet, 282. 



on genus Cychrus, 391. 

 new species of Argulus, 393. 

 T. W., remarks on the inaccura- 

 cies of botanical books, 390. 

 Hayes, Dr., proposes iodate of soda, as a 

 new chemical species, 391. 



his analysis of a cobalt ore, 334, 

 Head of Mastodon giganteum, 189. 

 Height of water in Lake Ontario, 43. 

 Herschel, Sir J., letter to, on parallax of 

 the star 61 Cygni, 200. 



chemical examination of 

 native iron, 213. 

 Hermann's view of the constitution of 



geine, 369. 

 Herrick, E. C, meteoric shower of April 

 20th, 1803, 358. 



shooting stars of Doc. 1838. 

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