INDEX. 



383 



45, 48, 55, 61, 69, 82, 90, 94, 96, 100, 

 J0:3, 105. 107, 111, 115, 123, 134, 136, 

 139, 143, 147, 149, 151, 154, 157, 161, 

 170, 181, 184, 190, 197, 198, 203, 210, 

 214, 220. 226, 228, 233, 2.37, 240, 242, 

 245, 248', 251, 253, 256, 27J, 275, 278, 

 282, 284, 286, 291, 295, 297, 300, 301, 

 303. 307, 309, 320, 323, 324, 331. 336, 

 337, 342, 345, 351, 356, 358, 360, 362, 

 364, 376. 



Donations for the Cabinet, 3, 16, 21, 35, 

 49, 135, 186, 294, 338. 



Dunglison, Dr., reappointed cor. sec. 

 and rep., 36, 146 — appointed orator on 

 death of President of Society, 51, — 

 reads supplement to will of Mr. Du 

 Ponceau, 65. 



Du Ponceau, P. S. will of, 60, 65— 

 books bequeathed to Society, 69, 108. 



Eckfeldt, Mr., on specimen said to be 



"fixed mercury," 187. 

 Election of officers, 133, 225, 299. 

 Electrical experiments, Prof. Henry, 



208. 

 Emerson, Dr., on mortality of children, 



212 — on late meteor, 274. 

 Ertel merid. circle, observ'n with, 113. 

 Ethnology, Dr. Bethune on, 358. 



Faraday, exp. on condensation of gases, 



151. 

 Franklin, permission to copy bust of, 



169 — letter from, to Dr. Kinnersley, 



279. 

 Frazer, Prof., on tornado, 12 — appointed 



reporter, 146 — on explosive cotton, 



294. 



Gas- wells of Kanawha, 366. 



Gilpin, Thos , on organic remains, 27 — 

 on representation of minorities, 81. 



Glass, for optical purposes, 277 — im- 

 provement in, for telescopes, 99. 



Gold, grain of, Dr. Patterson, 153, 155. 



Graham, Major, on magnetic dip, 205. 



Griffith, Dr. thanks of Society to, 142. 



Gum elastic goods, Mr. Peale, 221. 



Haldeman, S. S., on coleoptera longi- 

 cornia, 137, 149 — spectra on moon's 

 disk, 239 — phonology of Wyandots, 

 269— exhibits spider, 356— engravings 

 of shells, 357 — corrections and addi- 

 tions to paper on longicornia, 371. 



Hall, Harrison, presents autograph let- 

 ter of Dr. Maskelyne, 98. 



Hare, Dr., apparatus for analysis, 3 — 

 use of mica, 114 — electric conduction, 

 114 — resolutions offijred by, 131. 



Hart, Prof., transit instrument at Hio-h 

 School, 92. 



Hays, Dr., spontaneous combustion of 

 coal, 25: — piece of iron from eye of 



man, 25 on mastodon and other 



bones, 43 — defective vision, 81 — re- 

 signs as curator, 135 — mastodon ske- 

 letons, 269. 



Head-fish, Dr. Coates, 11. 



Heckewelder, portrait loaned, 245. 



Henry, Prof., on Ihermo-electrical ap- 

 paratus, 22 — on discharge of leyden 

 jar, 22 — cohesion, 56, 84 — mechanical 

 power, 127 — spots on sun, 173 — capil- 

 larity, 176— protection from lightning, 

 ]79--results of electrical experiments, 

 208— paper by Capt Stockton, 221 — 

 polarization of light, 227, 229 — report 

 on telegraphic wires struck by light- 

 ning, 260 — investigations in physical 

 science, 285 — corpuscular hypothesis, 

 287 — aurora borealis, 370. 



Hydro-electrical machine, 197. 



India, trigonometrical survey of, 187. 

 Ingham, S. D., telegraphic wires struck 



by lightning, 259. 

 Instruments loaned by Mr. Vaughan to 



Mr. Hassler, 30, 187. 



Justice, Mr., telescopes, 126 — plans for 

 observatory buildings, 209 — magnetic 

 experiments, 218, 222. 



Kane, Mr. announces printing of Dr. 

 Patterson's discourse, 12. 



Kendall, Prof, observations at High 

 School, 113— on Encke's comet, 202, 

 new comet, 242 — solar eclipse, 253. 



Laws, amendment of, 335, 361, 363. 

 Lea, Mr., new fresh water shells, 8 — 



fresh water and land shells, 162. 

 Lens, loaned to Mr. Walker, 130. 

 Legislature, memorial to, 320, 321 — act 



of, 321. 

 LETTERS from SOCIETIES, &c., 

 foreign. 



Academy of Sciences, Turin, 13. 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, 30. 

 Batavian Soc.of Exp. Philosophers, 



135. 

 Botanical Soc, London, 67, 250. 

 British Association, 86. 

 Central Comm. of Statistics, Bel- 

 gium, 203, 275. 

 Electrical Society, 40. 

 Ethnological Soc. Lond , 139. 

 Ethnological Society of Paris, 37G. 

 Geographical Sec. Lond., 105. 

 Geological Soc. Lond., 32, 45,170, 



250,^341. 

 Geographical Soc. Paris, 9. 

 Holland Soc. of Sci Harlem, 184. 

 Horticultural Soc. Lond., 96, 103, 



250. 

 Imperial Society of Naturalists, 

 Moscow, 86, 233. 



