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INDEX II. 



Patterson (R.) on natural history as a branch 



of education, 77. 

 Peach (C. W.) on the fossil organic remains 

 of the south-east coast of Cornwall, and of 

 Bodmin and Menheniott, 61. 

 Peruvian mummies, on two, 75. 

 Philhps (John), letter respecting Mr. Na- 

 smjiib's paper on the structure of the teeth,3, 



on the temperature of the air in York 



Minster, 29. 



on rain at York, 30. 



on the occurrence of some minute fossil 



crustaceans in Palaeozoic rocks, 64. 

 Photographic preparation, influence of the 

 ferrocyanate of potash on the iodide of 

 silver as a, 47. 

 Photographs, 40. 

 Phthisis, 81. 

 Physics, 23. 



Physiology, animal and vegetable, compara- 

 tive view of, 77. 

 Pines, on some species of European, 76. 

 Pit-work, connexion which exists between 

 improvements in, and the duty of steam- 

 engines in Cornwall, 103. 

 Plants, destruction of, by animal odour, 76. 

 Plajiair (Dr.), abstract of a letter from Prof. 



Liebig to, 53. 

 Plymouth breakwater, 99. 

 Plymouth, stratified and unstratified volcanic 

 products near, 61. 



, discovery of organic remains in the 



Umestone cliiF, under the Hoe at, 62. 

 -, strata penetrated in sinking an Artesian 



well at the Victoria spa at, 63. 

 — , statistics of, 82. 



-, statistical rreport of patients of the 



public dispensary, during 1838-1840, 83. 



Polytechnic school at Paris, state of educa- 

 tion in the, 96. 



Pontia, specimens of, 72. 



Porter (Henry J.) on the monts de piete of 

 Rome, Paris, and other cities on the con- 

 tinent, 91. 



on the loan funds in Ireland, 93. 



Potash, ferrocyanate of, influence of the, on 



the iodide of silver, as a photographic pre- 

 paration, 47. 



Powell (Prof.) on the theoretical computa- 

 tion of refractive indices, 24. 



^ on the refraction of heat, 25. 



on certain points of the wave-theory 



of Ught, 25. 



Pratt (S. P.) on specimens from the slatj' 



rocks of Mount Batten, 64. 

 Prideaux (J.) on copper which had been acted 



on by sea water, 77. 



on the causes of the increased destruc- 



tibility of modem copper sheathing, 43. 



Prince Town, Dartmoor, on specimens from 

 granite quarries, near, 64. 



Quarries, granite, of Dartmoor, 105. 



Quetelet (Prof.) on the importance of keep- 

 ing registers of the physical and moral 

 world, 96. 



Quetelet (Prof.) on the establishment of a 

 central statistical commission in Brussels, 

 98. 



Race, varieties of the human, 75. 



Railway, notice of sections of the, between 



Bristol and Bath, 67. 

 , between Glasgow and Greenock, and 



Greenock and Ayr, 67. 

 Railways of the granite quarries of Dartmoor, 



105. 

 Rain, researches on, at York, 30. 



, at Harraby, near Carhsle, 30. 



Reid (Dr. D. B.) on the ventilation of ships, 



82. 

 Rendel (J. M.) on a system of trussing for 



the roadways of suspension bridges, 102. 

 Rennie (G.) on the propulsion of vessels by 



the trapezium paddle-wheel and screw, 



101. 

 Rheumatism, value of opium as a remedy in, 



78. 

 Richardson (Dr.) on three new genera of ma- 

 rine fishes from Van Diemen's Land, 71. 

 Rifles, improved sight for, 104. 

 Rivers, deposits in, from the existence of in- 

 fusoria, 72. 

 Rocks, dolomitic, of the Tyrol, disintegration 



of the, 48. 



, upper Silurian, of Denbighshire, 59. 



, palaeozoic, occurrence of some minute 



fossil crustaceans in, 64. 

 Rome, account of the monts de piete of, 91. 

 Ropes, Smith's wire, 106. 

 Rumball (Mr.) on asthma, 80. 

 Ryland (A.) on the income of scientific and 



literary societies, and the amount paid for 



rates and taxes in 1840, 95. 



Sanders (William) on sections of the railway 

 between Bristol and Bath, 67. 



Santorin, map of, 68. 



Saxicava rugosa, geological changes produced 

 by the, in Plymouth Sound, 66. 



Schunk (M.) on a white crystalline substance 

 obtained from Hcheus, 53. 



Science, medical, 77. 



Scotland, stipends of the clergy of the esta- 

 blished church in, 96. • 



Screws, new construction of a die-stock for 

 cutting, 106. 



Sense, muscular, 81. 



Sepiadse, colossal, 73. 



Sheflield, economic statistics of, 87. 



, vital statistics of, 88. 



Ships, ventilation of, 82. 



SUicon, production of, from paracyanogen,54. 



Silver, iodide of, influence of the ferrocya- 

 nate of potash on the, as a photographic 

 preparation, 47. 



, molybdic, 58. 



Skin, pustular disease hitherto undescribed 

 by writers on diseases of the, 77. 



Shding rule, use of the, 42. 



Societies, income of literary and scientific, in 

 1840, 95. 



