INDEX. 



407 



K. 



Keels of ships, 35. 

 Kirtland, Prof., his geological report of 

 Ohio, noticed, 197. 



Lake shore near Chicago, 111., 134. 



Latitude of Yale College, 309. 



Lead, action of water on, 25, 393. 



Liebig on uric acid and urea, 40. 



Light, new property of, 20. 



Limnoria terebrans, its destruction of 

 wood, 27. 



Lindley, Prof., on plants growing under 

 glass, 11. 



Locke, Prof., on magneto-electricity, and 

 electro-magnetical machines, 125. 



Longitude of Yale College, 309. 



Loorais, Prof. Elias, on latitude and lon- 

 gitude of Yale College, 309. 



Loomis, Prof. Elias, on variation and dip 

 of the magnetic needle in the United 

 States, (with a chart,) 290. 



Lost rocks on the Illinois prairies, 141. 



Lungs, dust in, 29. 



Lyceum of Nat. Hist, of New York, An- 

 nals of, noticed, 214. 



M. 



McCord, J. S.,meteorol. register by, 208 



Mackintosh on dust in the lungs, 29. 



Maecenas, bust of, discovered, 51. 



Magnetic-electric machine of great pow- 

 er, by C. G. Page, 163. 



Magnetic needle, dip and variation of in 

 the United States, 290. 



Magnetic needle, disturbance of by an 

 Aurora, 269. 



Magnetic electricity, 125. 



researches in by C. G. Page, 364. 



Magnetical apparatus, Scoresby's im- 

 provements in, 398. 



Maine, Dr. Jackson's remarks on geology 

 of, 69. 



Mantell's Wonders of geology reviewed, 

 387. 



Mather, W. W., report on geology of 

 Ohio, noticed, 196, 347. 



Maynard's catalogue of scientific books 

 376. 



Meteoric iron from Claiborne, Alabama, 

 analyzed, 332. 



Meteoric showers of antiquity, 182. 



Meteorites, fall of, in Brazil, 209. 



Meteorol. journal for 1837 atMarielta, O., 

 132. 



New York, 373. 

 Society of London, 400. 



Meteors of Aug. 9 and 10, 1837, 180 



Mica Slate crowns Mount Washington, 

 121. 



Michigan, report on geology of, 190. 



and Illinois canal, route of, 138. 



Mineral springs and salt in Upper Illi- 

 nois, 157. 



Minerals, new, 161, 313. 



Mineralogy and geology of White Mts., 



by Prof O. P. Hubbard, 105. 

 Mines, temperature of, 47. 

 Mining, Tarlor's observations on, 9. 

 Moon has no influence on tides of the 



Pacific, 83. 

 Morton, Geo., his Crania Americana no- 

 ticed, 214. 

 Mount Washington, popular notices of, 

 by G. W. Nichols, 73. 



remarks on, by the editor, 76. 

 by Prof O. P. Hubbard, 120. 

 Murray on variation of pressure on the 

 human body, 30. 



N. 

 Needle, magnetic, dip of, in the U. S., 308. 

 disturbance of, by an Aurora, 269. 

 variation of, in the U. S., 308. 

 North American Crania, remarks on, by 



Dr. Warren, 47. 

 Northwich, salt mines of, 55. 



O. 



Obituary of Nathaniel Bowditch, 220. 

 Observatory, magnetic, at Dublin, 3. 



of Yale College, latitude and 

 longitude of, 309. 

 Octahedral fluor spar, locality of, 117. 

 Ohio, reports on geological survey of, 



noticed, 196. 

 Olmsted's Nat. Phil. 3d edit, announced, 



219. 

 Orford, locality of brown tourmalin at, 



204. 

 Outhnes of Geology, Renwick's, 183. 

 Owen's geol. report of Indiana, noticed, 

 193. 



P. 

 Page, Dr. C. G., on new magneto-electri- 

 cal machine, 163, 368. 



Researches in magnetic elec- 

 tricity, 364. 

 Pennsylvania, geol. report of, noticed, 



188. 

 Phenakite found in Mass., 329. 

 Pickering, Chas., and J. D. Dana, descrip- 

 tion of Caligus Americanus, 225. 

 Plague, localities of, in Constantinople, 



32. 

 Planetary spaces, heat of, 57. 

 Platinum, no compound of, with hydro- 

 gen, 207. 

 Poisson, on the temperature of the earth 



and planetary spaces, 57. 

 Producta, new species of, 144, 150, 153. 

 Profile Mountain, 122. 

 Pronouns, their nature explained, 337. 

 Pump, air, of new construction, 86. 

 Pyrogenic acid, new, 206. 



a. 



Q,uartz, smoky crystallized, locality of, 

 114. 



