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INDEX. 



River Niagara, 49. 



Rotations, electro-magnetic, 129. 



Roj'al Society of London, honor to an 



eminent scientific artist, 195. 

 Rules of analysis of soils, 368. 



S. 



Sager, Abrm. on American amphibia 



320. 

 Salt, quantity of, in sea water, 188. 

 Salt, quantity of, in 1000 parts, 5. 

 Salines in N. Y., 2. 



analysis of several, 3, 5, 6. 

 Sandstone of Potsdam, N. Y., 25. 

 red, fossil fishes in, 186. 

 Sands, white and siliceous, 21. 

 Saratoga and Ballston, 8. 

 Schimpfer, M., theory of bowlders quo- 

 ted and questioned, 331, 2. 

 Scientific proceedings of Boston Natural 



History Society, 379. 

 Scratches, diluvial, 39. 

 Shefi'ey, H. W., account of ice at the bot- 

 tom of a river, J 86. 

 Shepard, C. U., on meteoric iron from 

 Buncombe Co., N. C, 81. 



notice of a report of, on the 

 economical geology of Mass., 363. 



analysis of Warwickite, 85. 

 ntjte to Wohler's analysis 

 of cobalt ores, 332, 33. 

 Shooting stars of Dec. 1838, additional 



account of, 335. 

 Shower, meteoric, of April 20th, 1803, 

 358. 



April 5, 1095 and 1122, 361. 

 Siberia, depth of frozen ground in, 210. 

 Silurian System by Murchison, acknowl- 

 edged, 399. 

 Smith, Junius, on steam ships and navi- 

 gation, 133. 

 Smith, James L., on chrom. potassa as a 

 test, ]83. 



on preparing permanent mag- 

 nets by galvanism, 335. 

 Smith, J. V. C, remarks on his " fishes of 



Massachusetts," 337. 

 Soils, analysis of, new mode detailed,366. 

 classified, 363. 



for analysis, how taken, 364. 

 in Kings, Q,ueens, and Richmond, 

 21. 



of Mass., table of geine contained 

 in, 371. 



power of absorbing moisture, 374. 

 of the West analyzed, 373. 

 Solar and terrestrial radiation observed 



at Montreal, ]82 

 Sphinges, catalogue of the N. American, 



282. 

 Springs, acidulated or carbonated, at 



Ballston and Saratoga, 8. 

 Springs, brine, in N. Y., 2. 



hot, in Iceland, 253, et seq. 



Springs of nitrogen in N. Y, , 7. 

 petrifying, in N. Y., 11. 

 thermal, of North America, no- 

 ticed, 88. 



Stars, shooting, account of, 179, 355, 358, 

 361. 



State chemist proposed for Mass., 376. 



Statement of lives lost by a whirlwind 

 in India, in April, 1838, 75. 



Steam, the agent in volcanic action, 241. 

 boilers, the failure of water in, .de- 

 tected, 141. 



maximum, elasticity of, 242. 

 ships and navigation, 133. 



Steel, Dr., analysis of Congress spring, 8. 



Strokr, account of, 256. 



Struder, Prof B., on erratic blocks, trans- 

 lations from, 326. 



Storer, D. H., remarks on " natural his- 

 tory of fishes of Massachusetts," 337. 



Subordinate rocks of N. Y., 68. 



Subsistence in continental Europe, price 

 of, 176. 



Subterranean temperatures, 204. 



Survey of N. Y , geological, 1, et seq. 

 paleontological, 12. 



Sussex, duke of, notice of Dr. Bowditch, 

 214. 



Synopsis of the families and genera of 

 Lepidoptera, 284. 



T. 



Table of salt in 1000 parts of Onondaga 

 and foreign salt, 5, 



Tabular view of the price of labor in cer- 

 tain parts of continental Europe, 176. 



Temperature of the earth, 203. 



of the ground in Siberia, 205. 

 increasing, the cause of vol- 

 canic action, 239. 



Temperatures, subterranean, 204. 



Temperature of wells in N. Y., 25. 



Tenacity of Essex iron, 99, 102. 



Tertiary formation of L. Champlain, 27. 



Teschemacher, .). E., on palatal tooth of 

 Ptychodus polygyrus, 380. 



Thermal springs. Von Nidda's classfica- 

 tion of, 255. 



Thermal waters of N. America, noticed 

 by Prof C. Daubeny, 88. 



Thomson, T., chemistry of organic bod- 

 ies, 202. 



Tongueless dog retaining power to bark, 

 ni4. 



Tornado of N. Brunswick in 1835, 115. 



Townsend, J. K., ornithology of U. S. 

 by, 201. 



Translations from Prof. Struder's account 

 of erratic blocks, 325. 



Tuckerman, E. Jr., on Geaster quadri- 

 fidus, 380. 



Turpin, M., memoir by, on red globules 

 in blood, 2C6. 



Tyfoon of Aug. 1835, in China seas, facts 

 concerning, 59. 



