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INDEX. 



Espy, J. P., synopsis of his philosophy 

 of storms, 120. 



Exploring Expedition, American, pro- 

 gress of, 193. 



French, to the Antarctic re 

 gions, 201. 



F. 



Faraday's letter to Dr. Hare on topics of 



electricity, 108. 



Filaria in the eye of a horse, 278. 



Fishes of the VV^est, descriptions of, 375. 



" cultivation of, 378. 



" of fresh waters of Europe, 390 



Flora of North America, by Torrey and 



Gray, noticed, 198. 

 French Exploring expedition, 201. 

 Frog domesticated, 188. 

 Frost, its effects on plants, 18. 



G. 



Gallery of Paintings, by Trumbull, 213. 



Galvanic processes and results, 28, 132. 



Gaylord, W. on a thunder shower, 59. 

 parhelia, 61. 

 meteorological register, 63. 



Geological specimens for sale, 199. 



" survey of N. Y. noticed, 95. 



Geologists American, association of, 189. 



Geology Elementary, by Hitchcock, no- 

 ticed, 391. 



Geology Elementary, by Leonhard, no- 

 ticed, 393. 



Geology, wonders of, by Mantell, 1. 

 " of Europe and America, cor- 



respondence of, 149. 



Ghagh, language of, 255. 



Gibbs, J. W., on the language of Ghagh 

 or Accra, 255. 



" O. W., on magneto-electric ma- 

 chine, and carbon battery, 132. 



Glass woven into cloth, 386. 



Gray and Torrey, their Flora of North 

 America noticed, 198. 



Gray's Elements of Chemistry noticed, 

 391. 



Grisebach, his Genera et Species Genti- 

 anearum noticed, 176. 



H. 



Haldeman's Monograph of the Limni- 



ades noticed, 393. 

 Hanson, A. W., elements of the Accra 



language, 255. 

 Hare, Robert, answer to his letter, by 



Faraday, 108. 



" apparatus for deflagration, 366. 



" on extrication of barium, stron- 

 tium, and calcium, 363. 



" on radiant heat, 371. 

 Harvey, W. H., his Genera of South 



African plants noticed, 173. 

 Hayes, A. A., on native nitrate of soda, 



375. 

 Heidelberg mineral establishment, 199. 



Herrick, E. C, auroral belt of May 29, 

 1840, 194, 383. 



meteors of August 9 and 

 10, 1840, 328. 



on other meteoric peri- 

 ods, 334. 



on a fire-ball, 382. 

 Hessians, Trumbull's painting of the 



capture of, at Trenton, 228. 

 Heulandite from New Holland, 160. 

 Hitchcock, E., his elementary geology 

 noticed, 391. 



on collections of minerals, 199. 

 Hooker and Arnott's Botany of Bee- 



chey's voyage noticed, 172. 

 Hooker's Flora Boreali-Americana no- 

 ticed, 172. 



Icones plantarum noticed, 178. 

 Journal of Botany noticed, 177. 

 Horse, Filaria in the eye of, 278. 

 Hubbard, O. P., notice of Geological sur- 

 vey of N. Y., 95. 

 Hudson, Ohio, Observatory at, 361. 

 Hj'drogen carburetted, natural discharge 

 of, 200, 399. 



I. 

 Igneous theory of the earth applied, 90. 

 Infinite divisibility of matter, 55. 

 Infusoria, fossil, of West Point, 191. 

 Iron steamboats, their superiority to 

 wooden, 206. 



Johnson, W. R., examination of coal 

 field of Carbon Creek, 137. 



Johnston, John, his manual of Chemis- 

 try noticed, 193, 391. 



Journal of Acad, of Nat. Sci. of Phila- 

 delphia, 395. 



K. 



Kendall, E. O., on longitudes of several 

 places in U. S., 367. 



Kirtland, J. P., descriptions of western 

 fishes, 375. 



on habits of the Naiades, 164. 



L. 



Lathrop, J. H., applications of igneous 



theory of earth, 90. 

 Lee, C. A., account of a Filaria in a 



horse's eye, 278. 

 Leonhard's Geology noticed, 393. 

 Limniades, Haldeman's Monograph of, 



noticed, 393. 

 Lindley, John, on the effects of frost on 



plants, 18. 



his Introduction to Botany 



noticed, 179. 

 Link's Philosophia Botanica, 181. 

 Linnea, a Journal of Botany, noticed, 178. 

 Linsley, J. H., on Sorex parvus and S. 



brevicaudis, 388. 

 Locke, John, observations of magnetic 



dip, 319. 



