INDEX. 



405 



M'Alister, asylum for the blind, 316. 



M'Cord, his meteorological register for 

 1837, 382. 



Mecanique Celeste, translated by Bow- 

 ditch,' 317. 



Mechanical science, 317. 



Medical science, 313. 



Memoir of Dr. Bowditch, 1. 



Mendip hills, bone cavern in, 304. 



Mercurial pendulum, portable, 289. 



Meteoric observations made at Cam- 

 bridge, 321. 



ofDec. 7th, 1838, 361. 

 shower of Nov. 1838, 368. 



Meteor of May 18th, 1838, 223. 



Meteorological register kept at Montreal, 

 L. C, for 1837, 382. 



Miller, Prof, portable goniometer, 303. 



Milne, D., on Berwick and North Dur- 

 ham coal fields, 308. 



Mineral, new species, at Bolton, 178. 

 Catlinite, 388. 

 Danburite, 137. 

 diarseniate of lead, 297. 



Mineralogy of the British Association, 

 297. 



descriptive, second part of, 

 announced by Prof. Shepard, 187. 



Miscellaneous notices in Opelousas, At- 

 takapas, &c., 344. 



Mitchell, Prof E., notice of high moun- 

 tains in North Carolina, 377. 



Prof J. K., on liquefaction and 

 solidification of carbonic acid, 346. 



Mountains in North Carolina, height of, 

 377. 



Moving power of electro-magnetism,106. 



Murchison's geological map of England 

 and Wales, 306. 



N. 



Navigation of the Atlantic by steam, 160. 

 letters of Junius Smith on, 333. 

 Navigator, practical, by Bowditch, 11. 

 Navy of steam ships, 333. 

 Nebulae, approximate places of, 284. 

 Newcastle coal fields, 305. 

 New Jersey tornado in 1835, 206. 

 New mineral species, notice of, by Prof. 

 Shepard, 137. 



supposed at Bolton, 178. 

 Catlinite, 388. 

 diarseniate of lead, 297. 

 New Zealand, changes of population in, 



315. 

 Nitrate of silver, pure, not blackened by 



sun's direct rays, 298. 

 Nitrogen, specific gravity of, 298. 

 North Carolina, high mountains in, 

 377. 



American herpetology, 186. 

 November shower of meteors, observa- 

 tions on, 361. 

 Noxious insects, 313. 



O. 



Observations on shooting stars of Dec. 

 7th, 1838, 361,364. 



on meteors of Nov, 1838, 368. 

 on vascular system of ferns, 

 113. 



Odontograph, a new instrument, 319. 



Oil from white fish, 391. 



Olmsted, Prof. D., observations on the 

 eclipse of the sun, Sept. 18th, 1838, 

 174. 



meteoric shower of November, 

 1838, 368. 



Opelousas and Attakapas, geological no- 

 tice concerning, 344. 



Orchis spectabilis, monstrous flower of, 

 117. 



Ornithichnite, note on by Prof Hitch- 

 cock, 246. 



Ostrich toes, 312. 



Owen, Prof, on the fossils collected by 

 Mr. Darwin, 196. 



structure of fossil teeth, 307. 

 Wollaston medal presented to, 

 197. 



Oxygen, its specific gravity, 298. 



Page, Chas. G.,on electro-magnetism as 

 a moving power, 106. 



electrepeter and electro- 

 tome, 112. 



magneto-electric and elec- 

 tro-magnetic apparatus and experi- 

 ments, 252. 



Palmetto used as food in Florida, 59. 



Paludina heterostropha described, 269. 



Parnell, Dr , rare British fishes, 310. 



Pattinson, H., new mode of extracting 

 silver from lead, 299. 



Pendulum, portable mercurial, 289. 



Phj^sa Sayii described (269. 



Phosphorus, specific gravity of its vapor, 

 298. 



Pickering, Hon. John, notice of life of 

 Dr. Bowditch, 386. 



Plants, mode of preserving, 338. 



Platina, fusion of, in quantity, 328. 



Poisoned wounds treated with Uvularia, 

 270. 



Proceedings of British Association in 

 1838, 275. 



Preparations of the eye, by Dr. Wal- 

 lace, 291 . 



Products of nitric acid and alcohol, 

 299. 



Front's analysis of starch sugar, 299. 



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duartz, cavities in, 139. 



