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INDEX. 



Herrick, E. C, shooting stars of April 

 20, 1839, 361. 



rain from a clear sky, 178. 



Hildreth, Dr. S. P., meteorological jour- 

 nal kept by him, 78. 



Hitchcock, Prof. E., analysis of marl 

 from Farmington.Conn., 176. 



report on re-examination 

 of economical geol of Mass. noticed, 

 363. 



Hot springs replace volcanos, 2.53. 



Humboldt, Baron Von, his opinion on 

 extent of volcanic action, 231. 



Hurricane of 8th April, 1838, in India, 

 account of, 71. 



Hydraulic cement, 37, 44. 



Hydrogen gas carburetted, disengaged 

 at Oneida, and elsewhere in N. Y., 6 



Hydrostatic pressure when equal to elas. 

 tic force of sleam, 243. 



Hypothesis of chemical action in volca- 

 nos untenable, 231. 



of increasing heat explains 

 volcanic action, 239. 



I. 



Ice at bottom of a river, 186. 



in a well, 184. 

 Immersion of galvanic batteries, 187. 

 Impressions of animal lootsteps on sand- 

 stone, 3i;4. 

 Indelible ink, new, composition of, 209 

 Inflammable gas disengaged in JN. Y., 



6, passim. 

 Internal fire, proof of, 261, et passim. 

 Iron ores in N. Y., 21. 

 hardening of, 42. 

 experiments on that from Adiron- 

 dack works, Essex, N. Y., 94. 

 its tenacity, 99, 102. 

 native, chemical examination of, 213. 

 ores in Mass., 378. 

 Islands, formation of from lava, 267-8-9 

 and 270. 



J. 



Jackson, Dr. C. T., his geological reports 

 reviewed, 143. 



on limestone from Welland 

 canal, 379. 



Jay, J. C, catalogue of shells, 3d edi 

 tion, 309. 



Johnson, W. R., experiments on two va- 

 rieties of Essex iron, 94. 



Jones, Rev. G., tabular view of price of 

 labor in Europe, 177. 



Journal, Meteorological, 78, 165. 



Judson, D., on use of nitric acid in pul- 

 monary diseases, 191. 



K. 



Kilee or Boomerang, notice of, 164. 

 Krug Von Nidda's classification of hot 

 springs, 255. 



Labor, price of, on continent of Europe, 

 176 



Lake ridge of N. Y., 40. 



Lamed, Rev. W. A., translations relative 

 to bowlders and cobalt ores, 325. 



Lava, diagrams to show the ejection of, 

 249. 



not uniform in ejections, 252. 

 breaking through sea and forming 

 islands, 267. 



Lead. Prof. Emmons on occurrence of^ 

 in N. Y., 42. 



Leather, mountain, 114. 



Lebanon springs analysed, 7. 



Lepidopterous insects, catalogue of sphin- 

 ges. 282. 



Limestone, Prof. Emmons on, in N.Y.,47 



Lime, fibrous carbonate, 113. 



Line of reference for state geologists, 61. 



Lives lost by a whirlwind in India, num- 

 ber estimated, 75. 



Loomis, Prof. E., a meteorological table 

 and register, 165. 



description of his instruments, 172, 



Lyceum of Nal. Hist N. Y., list of offi- 

 cers in, for 1839, 195. 



M. 



Macomber, D. O., account of a frozen 

 well, 184. 



Magnetic needle, variation of, 28. 



Magnets, galvanic, modes of construct- 

 ing, 124. 



Magnetic (electro) rotations, 129. 



Magnets, mode of preparing permanent 

 artificial ones, 336. 



Magnetism, electro, by Dr. Page, 350. 



Magnus, Dr., experiments on tempera- 

 ture of the earth, 203. 



Maine and Mass., geological reports on, 

 reviewed, 143. 



Malcom, Rev Mr., on fossil bones from 

 Burmah, 387. 



Mammoth, (Mastodon.? Eds.) 198. 



Manual of Chemistry, Webster's, new 

 edition of, 195. 



Marine currents, proofs of, 37. 



Marietta, Ohio, Met. Jour kept at, 78. 



Marl, where occurring in Mass., 375. 



Mastodon giganteum, head of, 189. 



Marcy, Gov. VVm. L., geological reports 

 communicated by him, noticed, 1. 



Mather, W. W., report on the first dis- 

 trict of N. Y., geological survey, 15. 



McCord, J. S., Met. Register kept at 

 Montreal by him, 180. 



Mead, Dr., his analysis of Lebanon 

 spring quoted, 7. 



Meteoric iron from Ashville, N. C, 81. 

 shower of Nov. 1838, noticed in 

 Europe, 179; 



of Dec. 7, 1838, 355. 



