INDEX. 



427 



K. 



Kain, Dt. J. H., hurricane of Shelby- 



ville, Tenn., 252. 

 Karsten, electricity by contact, 159. 

 Keely, G. W., resistance of fluids, 111. 



Lagrange, memoirs of, 97. 



Latitude, degrees of a parallel of, 235. 



— reduction of, 231. 



Lavas of Mexico and South America. 

 176. 



Lta, Isaac, synopsis of the family of 

 Naiades, 421. 



Length of a degree of the terrestrial me- 

 ridian, 222. 



Libraries in the world, comparative ta- 

 ble, 178. 



Lizards, orbicular, 183. 



Locusts, 193. 



Logan's family, murder of, 11. 



Longevity of the yew tree, 358. 



M. 



Magnetic intensity, terrestrial, at great 

 elevations from the earth, 369. 



■ needle at Paris, 190. 



Mallory, A., Meteorological Register 

 287. 



Maryland Academy of Science, pro- 

 ceedings of, 395. 



Mastodon bones in Orange County, N.Y. 

 171. 



angustidens, found in the era 



at Norfolk, England, 340. 



Mathematical Miscellany, 184. 



Mechanics' Institute of New York, his- 

 tory and proceedings of, 415. 



Memoirs of Lagrange, 97. 



Rev. J. Prince, 201. 



Memphis, geographical position of, 373. 



Mercury, congelation of by natural cold 

 161. 



Metal, new, Donium, 163. 



Metals, reduction of, 164. 



Meteoric shower of 1836, 386. 



Meteorological register, kept at Matan- 

 zas, 284. 



kept at New Or- 

 leans, 400. 



Middletown, bird tracks at, 165. 



Mineralogical and geological collections 

 for sale, 418. 



Mineralogv, new work on, 413 



Minerals, 171, 172, 173. 



, &c., examination of, proposed 



by W. W. Mather, 418. 



specific gravity of, 268. 



N. 



Naiades, new work on, 421. 

 Natural history, Boston journal of, 185. 

 New planet, 158. 



North America, report on the zoology of, 

 343, 356, 376. 



O. 



Obituary of Mr. George Chilton, 421. 

 Olmsted, Prof D., Meteoric Shower of 



1836, 386. 

 Ornithichnites in Connecticut, 174. 

 at Middletown, 165. 



Ornithology, new species in, 192. 



P. 



Page, C.G., electrical sparks and shocks 

 from the calorimotor, 137. 



Palestine, climate of, 183. 



Passeres, new species of, 192. 



Patents, agency for at the city of Wash- 

 ington, 411. 



Planet, supposed new, 158. 



Planets, comparative oblateness of, 222. 



Plants, fossil, at Mariner's Mill, 28. 

 , impregnation of, 308, 317. 



Mineral waters, analysis of, 94. 

 Morin, theory of the universe, 160. 

 Mountain ranges, elevation of, 290. 

 Mount Etna, origin of, 168. 



Plumbago and black lead pencils, 177. 

 Pressure of carbonic acid, 402. 

 Prince, Rev. J., memoirs of, 201. 

 Problems, diophantine, 156. 



R. 



Radius of the earth, 234. 



Redfield, W. C, Gales of the Atlantic, 



115. 

 Rejoinder of Prof Shepard to Prof. Del 



Rio, 131. 

 Resistance of fluids, 111. 

 Richardson, Dr., report on the zoology 



of North America, 343, 356, 376. 

 Robert, Eugene, visit to Iceland, 167. 

 Rock strata at the falls of Cuyahoga, 47. 

 Rodentia, new species of, 385. 



S. 



Sassarubrin, 285. 



Saurians, new, 365. 



Sea and land, relative level of, 335. 



Shelbyville, "Tenn., hurricane at, 252. 



Sivatherium, new fossil animal, 176. 



Slate rocks of Devonshire, 349. 



Solar spectrum, chemical action of, 160. 



Statistical societies, establishment of in 

 the United States, 186. 



Strong, Prof, solution of two diophan- 

 tine problems, 156. 



Sugar from Indian corn, 163. 



Sulphate of lime, locality of, 34. 



Sulphurous acid, action of on essential 

 oils, 281. , 



