INDEX II. 



Ill 



Blindness, case of, 81. 



Bodmin, fossil organic remains of, 61. 



Booth (A.) on spontaneous combustion, 

 50. 



Boswarra (J.) on the heave of a copper lode, 

 64. 



Botany, 68. 



Bottles, apphcation of caoutchouc as a stop- 

 per for, 106. 



Bowman (Edmund) on determining distan- 

 ces by the telescope, 42. 



Bowman (J. E.) on the upper Silurian rocks 

 of Denbighshire, 59. 



Breakwater, Plymouth, 99. 



, floating, 100. 



Brewster (Sir David) on crystalline reflexion, 

 42. 



Bridges, suspension, system of trussing for the 

 roadways of, 102. 



Bristol, statistics of education in the city of, 

 89. 



Brockedon (Mr.) on caoutchouc as a stopper 

 for bottles, 106. 



Brunei (Sir J.) on the present state of the 

 Thames tunnel, 106. 



Brussels, establishment of a central statisti- 

 cal commission in, 98. 



Buckland (Rev. Dr.) on specimens from gra- 

 nite quarries near Prince Town, Dartmoor, 

 64. 



on models for illustration of the suc- 

 cession and dislocations of strata, mineral 

 veins, &c., 67. 



Bunsen (Prof.) on the radical of the kako- 

 dyle series, 55. 



Butter (Dr. J.) on the pathology and cure of 

 squinting, 79. 



Caldwell (Dr.) on the varieties of the human 

 race, 75. 



Caoutchouc, application of, as a stopper for 

 bottles, 106. 



Cardinia, Agassiz, on the genus, as charac- 

 teristic of the lias formation, 65. 



Cecidomya Tritici, 72. 



Chatfield (W.) on Truscott's plan for reefing 

 paddle-wheels, 102. 



Chemical action, restrained, 51. 



Chemistry, 43. 



Chock channels. Captain Couch's, 102. 



Christie (Prof.) on the preservation of mag- 

 netic needles and bars from o.xidation by 

 the electrotype process, 41. 



Chronometers, application of a coating of 

 gold to the steel balance-springs of, 41. 



Circles, instrument for drawing, in perspec- 

 tive, 42. 



Clergy of the established church in Scot- 

 land, stipends of the, 96. 



Coathupe (C. T.) on an improved sight for 

 rifles and other fire-arms, 104. 



Combustion, spontaneous, 50. 



Compasses, sea, 27. 



Continent, accomit of the monts de piete on 

 the, 91. 



Copper, action of sea water on, 77. 



Copper sheathing, causes of the increased 

 destructibility of modern, 43. 



Cornwall, post-tertiary formations of, 61. R'^ 



, fossil organic remains of the south- 

 east coast of, 61. 



, zoology of the county of, 68. 



, flora of, 75. 



, agricultural products of, 83. 



connexion which exists between im- 



provements in pit-work and the duty of 

 steam-engines in, 103. 



Couch's (Capt.) chock channels, 102. 



Couch (Jonathan) on the zoology of the 

 county of Cornwall, 68. 



Craig (John) on sections of the railway be- 

 tween Glasgow and Greenock, and Green- 

 ock and Ayr, 67. 



Crustaceans, occurrence of some minute 

 fossil, in Palseozoic rocks, 64. 



Cyanogen, direct formation of, from its ele- 

 ments, 52. 



Daltonism, 40. 



Dana (Dr. Samuel L.) on determining the 



quantity of real indigo in the indigos of 



commerce, 49. 

 Dartmoor, granite quarries of, 105. 

 Daubeny (Prof.) on manures considered as 



stimulants to vegetation, 47. 

 on the disintegration of the dolomitic 



rocks of the Tyrol, 48. 

 ■ on a portable botanical press, 77. 



Dawson (Mr.) on the landslip of Axmouth, 

 64. 



Deafness, case of, 81. 



Deakin's (Dr. R.) registers of meteorologi- 

 cal instruments at the baths of Lucca in 

 1840, 42. 



De Moleyns (Mr.) on recent discoveries in 

 voltaic combination, 42. 



on the nature and properties of the 



new element, or product of electrical action 

 mentioned by Schonbein, 57. 



Denbighshire, upper Silurian rocks of, 59. 



Derry's (Samuel) statistical report of pa- 

 tients of the Plymouth pubUc dispensary, 

 during the years 1838-1840, 83. 



Devon, post-tertiary formations of, 61. 



, flora of, 75. 



Devonport, statistics of, 82. 



Devonshire, distribution, &c., of the mam- 

 mals of, 68. 



Dickson (Sir D. J. H.) on an extraordinary 

 case of albuminous ascites, with hydatids ; 

 of five cases of hepatic abscess, and of two 

 cases of phthisis, 81. 



Dispensary, Plymouth public, statistical re- 

 port of patients of the, during 1838-1840, 

 83. 



Dukinfiekl, income and expenditure of cer- 

 tain fauiihes of the working classes in, 90. 



Dumbness, case of, 81. 



Dury (Rev. T.) on sea compasses, 27. 



Dent (E. J.) on the apphcation of a coating 

 of gold to the steel balance springs of 

 chronometers, 41. 



