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INDEX I. 



Chelone convexa, 1 78. 



subcristata, 179. 



latiscutata, 179. 



Chelonia, 160. 



Chelonidae, 168. 



Cladyodon, 155. 



Coelum Anstrale Stelliferum, reduction of 



Lacaille's stars in the, 327. 

 Compteur, Morin's, 309. 

 Conduction, power of, 5. 



, Fourier's hypothesis of, 6. 



Cooling, Ne\Hon's law of, 3. 

 Crocodilia, 65. 

 Crocodilus Spenceri, 65. 



Dalyell (Sir J. G.) on radiata, 331. 

 Denny (Mr.) on anoplura Britannia;, 331. 

 Dinosaurians, 102. 



Earthquakes, on obtaining instruments and 

 registers to record shocks of, in Scotland 

 and Ireland, 46. 



Ely (The Very Rev. the Dean of) on terre- 

 strial magnetism and meteorology, 38. 



Emydian, large, from the Kimmeridge clay, 

 168. 



, footsteps of, in new red sandstone,168. 



Emys, 160. 



testudiniformis, 161. 



■ de Sheppey, 161. 



Enys (J.) on the construction of a constant 

 indicator for steam-engines, 307. 



Fossil reptiles, British, 60. 



fishes of the old red sandstone of 



Great Britain, 331. 

 Femur, chelonian, from lias at Linksfield,168. 



Gases, velocity of cooling in, 5. 



Goniophohs crassidens, 69. 



Gould (Mr.), progress of report on capri- 

 mulgida;, 331. 



Graham (Robert) on the engraving of skeleton 

 maps for recording the distribution of 

 plants and animals, 327. 



Greenock (Lord) on obtaining instruments 

 and registers to record shocks of earth- 

 quakes in Scotland and Ireland, 46. 



Hams (W. S.) on the working of Whewell's 

 anemometer at Plymouth, 36. 



on the puhUcation of the hourly obser- 

 vations made at Plymouth under the su- 

 perintendence of, 328. 



Heat, present state of our theoretical and 

 experimental knowledge of the laws of 

 conduction of, 1. 



, Poisson's theory of, 9, 11. 



'-, Fourier's hypothesis of, 9. 



, Libri's hypothesis of, 10. 



, Biot on, 15. 



, conductive power relative to, 18. 



Herschel (Sir J. F. W., Bart.) on terrestiial 

 magnetism and meteorology, 38. 



. on the reduction of meteorological ob- 

 servations, 42. 



Herschel (Sir J. F. W., Bart.) on revising 



the nomenclature of the stars, 44. 



on experiments with balloons, 55. 



on the reduction of Lacaille's stars in 



the Coelum Australe Stelliferum, 327. 

 Histoire Celeste, reduction of stars in the, 



330. 

 Hodgkin (Dr.) on inquiries into the races of 



man, 52. 

 Ilodgkinson (Eaton) on the construction of 



a constant indicator for steam-engines, 



307. 

 Human race, varieties of the, 332. 



, queries respecting the, 332. 



, physical characters, 332. 



, language, 334. 



, individual and family life, 335. 



, buildings and monuments, 337. 



, works of art, 337. 



, domestic animals, 337. 



, governments and laws, 337. 



, geography and statistics, 338. 



, social relations, 338. 



, reUgion, superstitions, &c., 339. 



Hygrometer, on the, 58. 

 Hylaiosaurus, 111. 



, vertebraj of, 112. 



, sacrum of, 113. 



, caudal vertebrte of, 114. 



, dermal scutes of, 115. 



, dermal spines of, 115. 



, scapular arch of, 117. 



, teeth of, 118. 



, jaw of, 119. 



Hythe, gigantic fossil saurian from the lower 



greensand at, 157. 



Iguanodon, 120. 



, teeth of the, 120. 



, head of, 124. 



, tympanic bone of, 124. 



, vertebral column of, 125. 



, sacral vertebrae of, 129. 



, caudal vertebrae of, 131. 



, ribs of, 133. 



, scapular arch of, 133. 



, coracoid of, 134. 



, clavicle of, 134. 



, humerus of, 135. 



, Uium of, 135. 



, pubis of, 135. 



, ischium of, 136. 



, femur of, 136. 



, size of, 142. 



Iguanodon Mantelli, 120. 



Indicator, constant, construction of a, for 

 steam-engines, 307. 



, Watt's, 308. 



, Prof. Moseley's, 310. 



, theory of the, 314. 



Inverness, erection of Osier's anemometer 

 at, 329. 



, hourly observations at, 329. 



Ireland, on obtaining instruments and regis- 

 ters to record shocks of earthquakes in, 

 16. 



