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INDEX. 



Electro-magnetic instruments, on, 

 418. 



Endosmose and Exosmose, on the 

 cause of, 391. 



Equations, on the theory of, 296 ; 

 composition of, 296 ; general so- 

 lution of, 305. 



Eye, on the achromatism of the, 374. 



Faraday (M.) on electro-chemical 

 decomposition, 393. 



Fielding (G. H.) on the peculiar at- 

 mospherical phaenomena during 

 theprevalence of influenzain 1833, 

 461. 



Flamsteed's Historia Calestis, ac- 

 count of some MS. Letters rela- 

 tive to, 462. 



Flowers, on the structure of, 433. 



Fluid motion, review of the theory of, 

 131. 



Fluids, on the motion of in pipes and 

 vessels, 135, 153; on the resistance 

 of, 149, 153; on the velocity of 

 propagation in, 136, 153. 



Genera and subgenera, on, 440. 



Glass, its colouring matter dimi- 

 nishes its power of transmitting 

 heat, 382. 



. of antimony, on its power to 



reflect light, 377. 



Gray (W.) experiments on the quan- 

 tities of rain falling at different 

 elevations, 401. 



Hamilton (W. R.) on the character- 

 istic function in optics, 360. 



Harlan (Dr.) on some new species of 

 fossil saurians, 440. 



Harris (W. S.) on some new pheno- 

 mena of electrical attraction, 386; 

 on the construction of a new wheel- 

 barometer, 414. 



Hawkins (J. I.) on the locomotive 

 differential pulley, 424. 



Heart, on its motions and sounds, 

 454. 



Heat, radiant, experiments on, 381. 



Henry (Dr. W. C), report on the 

 physiology of the nervous system, 

 59. 



Herschel (Sir J. F. W.) on the ab- 

 sorption of light by coloured me- 

 dia, 373 ; on the principle and 



construction of the actinometer, 

 379. 



Hodgkin&on (E.) on the effect of im- 

 pact on beams, 421 ; on the strength 

 of cast iron, 423. 



Hydraulics as a branch of engineer- 

 ing, on, 153. 



Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics, 

 report on, 131. 



Influenza of 1833, peculiar atmo- 

 spherical phfenomena during the 

 prevalence of, 461. 



Iron, mean strength and elasticity 

 of, 103. 



, carbonaceous, method of ana- 

 lysing, 400. 



, cast, on the strength of, 423. 



Jenyns (Rev. L.) on genera and sub- 

 genera, 440. 



Johnston (Prof.) on a method of ana- 

 lysing carbonaceous iron, 400. 



Leaves, on the theory of wood being 

 generated by the action of, 36 ; on 

 the arrangement of, 40 ; on the 

 structure of, 41. 



Life, on the term, 59. 



Light, on its absorption by coloured 

 media, 373 ; on the power of glass 

 of antimony to reflect, 377 ; on a 

 phsenomenon in the interference 

 of, 378. 



Lindley (Prof.), report on the philo- 

 sophy of botany, 27. 



Lloyd (Rev. H.) on conical refrac- 

 tion, 370. 



Locomotion, on the function of, 68. 



Locomotive differential pulley, in- 

 vestigation of the principle of the 

 424. 



Macartney (Dr.) on the natural hi- 

 story of the common toad, 441 ; on 

 the structure and functions of the 

 nervous system, 449. 



Mac Vicar (Rev. J. G.) on electricity, 

 390. 



Magnetism of the earth, on, 105. 



Materials, on the strength of, 93, 

 103, 421, 423, 



Medulla oblongata, on the, 72. 



Megatherium, on some symmetrical, 

 relations of the bones of, 437. 



