INDEX. 



405 



Meteoric shower of April 20, 1803, 358. 

 Meteorite, African, 3b3. 

 Meteorological Journal, abstract of, 78. 

 Register kept at Montreal, 



1838, 180. 



table and register, by Prof 



E. Loomis, 165. 



Rt^gister and Sci. Journal, 



edited by James H. Coffin, 165. 

 Mineral cabinet offered for sale, 393. 

 Mineral, new, Voiborthite, 187. 

 Miscellanies, domestic and foreign, 174, 



37y. 

 Montreal, Met. Register kept at in 1838 



180. 

 Mountains of Essex county, 23. 



how raised, 264. 

 Mountain leather, 114. 

 Mummies at Durango, Mexico, 200. 

 Murchison's Silurian System received, 



3t*9. 

 Museums, mode of preparing fish skins 



for, ]Ij6. 

 Musical echo in Va., 174. 



N. 



Naturalists, British, notice of, 217. 



Native copper, and ores of, in New Jer- 

 sey, 107. 



Nat. Hist, of fishes of Mass., reviewed, 

 337. 



Navigation, steam, 133. 



New York geological reports, 1. 



New works received, 399. 



Nitric acid in pulmonary diseases, 191. 



Nitrogen springs in IM. Y. analysed, 7. 



Norton, Prof. A., treatise on astronomy, 

 197. 



Note on New Briinswick tornado, 113. 



Notice, obituary, of Hon. Stephen Van 

 Rensselaer, 156. 



O. 



Obituary notice of the Hon. Stephen Van 

 Rensselaer, 156. 



Observations on electricity, 353. 



Ocean, phosphorescence of, 208. 



Officers of Lyceum of Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 195. 



Oil of wine, destructive distillation of, 76. 



Olmsted's introduction to astronomy, 

 203. 



Onondaga, salt springs of, analysed, 6. 



Ontario, Lake, its ridge, 40. 



small lakes running into, 42. 

 shore of, and height of wa- 

 ter in, 43 



Ores of copper in N. Jersey, 107. 

 iron in N. Y , 21. 



Organic bodies, chemistry of, 202. 



Ornithology of U. S., by J. K. Towns- 

 end, 201. 



Outlet of small lakes into Ontario, 42. 



Page, C. G., on galvanic batteries, 137. 



use of galvanoscope to detect 



failure of water in steam boilers, 141. 

 Page, Charles G., on electro-magnetism, 



350. 



observations on electricity, 353. 

 on musical echo in Va, 174. 

 Paleontological department of survey on 



N. Y , byT.A. Conrad, 12. 

 Parallax ol the star 61 Cygni, 200. 

 Pdtton, J. H., account of hurricane in 



India, communicated by him, 71. 

 Peat occurring in N. Y., 16. 

 Petrified wood in N. Y. and Va.,(note) 12. 

 Petrifying springs in N. Y., 11. 

 Perdicaris, G , letter on the revival of 



letters in Greece, 192. 

 Postscript to p. 71, 198. 

 Potassa, chromate of, an agent to distin- 

 guish between baryta and strontia, 183. 

 Prejudice against pure gypsum, 43. 

 Price of labor and subsistence in certain 



parts of Europe, 176. 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of 



Nat Hist., 379. 

 Progress of U. S. exploring expedition, 



ly5. 

 Protoccocus kermesinus, analogous to red 

 [lobules in blood, 206. 



Q. 



Quantity of salt in sea water, 188, 



R. 



Radiation, solar and terrestrial, 182. 



Rain from a clear sky, 178. 



Raleigh's Tyfoon of Aug. 5th and 6th, 



1835, 59. 

 I ay, John, biography of, 223. 

 Reclamation of M. A. Warder, 187. 

 Red color in agates, 207. 

 Red globules m blood, 206. 

 Uedfield, W. C, account of columnar 



whirlwinds occasioned by fires, 50. 



additional facts de Raleigh's 



tyfoon in China sea, 59. 

 Red oxide, copper in, N. Jersey, 109. 

 Red sandstone of De la Beche, 68. 

 Reference line for state geologists, 61. 

 Remarks on cases of wind caused by fires 



56. 

 Remarks by the editors to subscribers and 



readers, 49, 165, 185 and 6, 216. 

 Remarks on the Nat. Hist, of the fishes 



of Mass., 337. 

 Rents caused by volcanos, 251. 

 Reports on the geology of Maine and 



Mass , 143. 

 Revival of letters in Greece, 192. 

 Ridge of Lake Ontario, 40. 

 Ridge roads, 40. 

 Ripple marks, 46. 



