A. 
Acetic acid, 358. 
Adams, E., on divisibility of matter, 
163. 
Agassiz’, Prof., great work on fossil 
fishes, 193. 
Air pump receiver, new one, 353. 
Alcohol in wines and fermented liquors, 
48. 
386. 
Allanite of Greenland, 394. 
Alps, travels in, 296. 
Anatomy and medicine, Ho: 
_ Analysis of a fossil tree in Craigleith 
quarry, 390, 
| ———— of some essential oils, 383. 
te ‘Ancient mineralogy by Prof. Moore, 
notice of, 188. 
_ Anhydrous sulphuric acid, 366. 
_ Antimonial nickel, anew ‘mineral, 395. 
Apocrenic acid, 121. 
Apparatus, various chemical, 263. 
Apparent lossof weight of the human 
body, 198. 
Arsenic acid—oxide of iron, an antidote 
for, 135. 
Artificial twin erystals of felspar, 396. 
————— oxide of chrome, 396. 
Asclepias Syriaca, 380. 
_ Assaying the ores of manganese, 146. 
of potatoes, oil extracted from, 
B. 
_ Babbages’ calculating machine and con- 
stants, 64. 
Nov. 13th, 1834, 305. 
a radiation, absorp- 
tion, conduction, &c. of heat, 320. 
Baddeley, Lieut., EF. W. on boulders 
' —geological notices—and water ce- 
ment, 111, 367. 
Ball, John, on the geology, &c. of the 
country west of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, 1. 
on meteorological obser- 
vations at Fort Vancouver, on the Co- 
lumbia river, 1832 and 733, 9. 
Barage in Egypt, 23. 
Beaufoy’s, Col. work on nautical and 
hydraulie experiments, notice of, 340. 
_ Beck, Prof. Lewis C., researches on 
wines and other fermented liquors, 
: 42, 
INDEX TO VOLUME XXVIII. 
i. 
Belfast Nat. Hist. Society, 369. 
Bells’ improved air pump receiver, 353. 
Biela’s comet, 398. 
Black rock of Quebec, a good water ce- 
ment, 113. 
Boracic acid of Tuscany, 143. 
Botanical communications, 165. 
Boue’s, A., Mémoires eeologiques et Pa- 
leontologiques, 366. 
Boulders, their buoyancy at great depths 
in the ocean, il. 
Ser iN, on the resistance of fluids, 
Brandes on shooting stars, 97. 
British association for the advancement 
of science, notice of its meetings for 
1833, 734, 5B. 
Buel, Te on the excrementitious matter 
thrown off by plants, 267. 
Burdie House, Dr. Hibberts report on 
the fresh water limestone of, 365. 
C. 
Cabinet of minerals for sale, 400. 
Cajeput, oil of, 384. 
Canal of Mohammedie, 27. 
Carbonate of soda, manufacture of, 143 
Carburetted hydrogen i in cementation of 
iron, 362. 
Caricography, 270. 
Caroline Islands, account of, 114. 
Cement, adhesive power of ‘water, 367. 
Cementation of iron by carburetted hy- 
drogen, 362. 
Chalk formation of the U. States, 276. 
Chemistry and mineralogy, 70. 
, hotice of Dr. Gales’. Ele- 
ments of, 188. 
Chiastolite, 395. 
Chile, reality of the sudden rise of its 
coast in 1822, 236. 
Chloride of silver, reduction of, 145. 
Chlorine, use in separating nitrogen 
from ammonia, 360. 
Chromate of iron, locality of, 383. 
Chrome, artificial twin crystals of ox- 
ide of, 396. 
Cinnamon, oil of, 385. 
Clary, Lieut. R. E., on remarkable par- 
helia seen at Fort Howard, 304. 
Coal mine on Mt. Lebanon, 32. 
Cold, extraordinary seasons of, 183. 
of Jan. 1835, notices of, 177. 
Comet of Biela, 398. 
Composition and resolution of forces, 85. 
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