INDEX II. 



115 



Societies, amount of rates and taxes paid by 



literary and scientific, 1840, 95. 

 Smitli (Col. Hamilton) on the colossal se- 



piada3, 73. 

 Solomon (J. V.) on the treating of squinting, 



80. 

 Springs, deposits in, from the existence of 



infusoria, 72. 

 Square (W. J.) on a case of empyema, 82. 

 Squinting, pathology and cure of, 79. 

 Statistical commission, establishment of a 



central, in Brussels, 98. 

 Statistics, 82. 



, economic, of Sheffield, 87. 



, vital, of Sheffield, 88. 



of education in the city of Bristol, 89. 



Steam-boats, shield to protect the paddle- 

 wheels of, from the action of the sea, 101. 



Steam-engines, plan of disengaging and re- 

 connecting the paddle-wheels of, 102. 



in Cornwall, connexion which exists 



between improvements in pit-work and the 

 duty of, 103. 



Stonehouse, statistics of, 82. 



Strata, models for illustration of the succes- 

 sion and dislocations of, 67. 



Strickland (H. E.) on the genus Cardinia, as 

 characteristic of the lias formation, 65. 



on a map of Santorin, 68. 



Stuart (W.) on the Plymouth breakwater, 99. 



Sturm's auxihary functions, relation of, to 

 the roots of an algebraic equation, 23. 



Sugar, composition of crystaUized diabetic, 

 54. 



Sulphocyanides, some subjects connected 

 with the, 51. 



Sylvester (Prof.) on the relation of Sturm's 

 auxiliary functions to the roots of an alge- 

 braic equation, 23. 



Taylor (Capt.) on a floating breakwater, 100. 



on a shield to protect the paddle-wheels 



of steam-boats from the action of the sea, 

 101. 



Taylor (John) on the water-power at Wheal 

 Friendship mine, 106. 



Teeth, microscopic structure of the, 14. 



Telescope, determination of distances by the, 

 42. 



Temperature, influence of mountains on, in 

 the winter, 28. 



Thompson (Dr. T.) on the value of opium as 

 a remedy in rheumatism, and on the cir- 

 cumstances which should regulate its em- 

 ployment, 78. 



Thomson (Dr. A. T.) on a pustular disease 

 hitherto undescribed by writers on dis- 

 eases of the skin, 77. 



Thomson (Dr. R. D.) on the new process for 

 the production of hydrocyanic acid for me- 

 dical use, 54. 



on the composition of crystallized dia- 

 betic sugar, 54. 



Thomson (Dr. T.) on two lepidosireus from 

 Macartney Island, 72. 



Thylacinus, account of a, 70. 



Tide of the North Sea, 32. 



Transactions of the Sections in 1839, adden- 

 dum to the Keport of the, 1. 



Tripe (Dr.) on some specimens of Pontia, 

 72. 



Truscott's plan for reefing paddle-wheels, 

 102. 



Trussing, system of, for the roadways of sus- 

 pension bridges, 102. 



Tunnel, Thames, present state of the, 106. 



Tweedy (Mr.) on molybdic silver, 58. 



Tyrol, disintegration of the dolomitic rocks 

 of the, 48. 



Van Diemen's Land, three new genera of ma- 

 rine fishes from, 71. 



Varrentrapp (Dr.) on determining the amount 

 of nitrogen in organic bodies, 53. 



Vegetation, manures considered as stimu- 

 lants to, 47. 



Ventilation, on descending flues, and their 

 appUcation to the purposes of, 105. 



Vessels, propulsion of, by the trapezium 

 paddle-wheel and screw, 101. 



Volcanic products, stratified and unstratified, 

 near Plymouth, 61. 



Walker (W.) on the geological changes pro- 

 duced by the Saxicava rugosa in Plymouth 

 Sound, 66. 



Wartmann (Prof. Elie) on Daltonism, 40. 



Water-power at Wheal Friendship mine, 106. 



Wave-theory of light, certain points of the, 

 25. 



Wheal Friendship mine, water-power at, 106. 



Whitworth (Mr.) on a die-stock for cutting 

 screws, 106. 



Widdrington (Capt.) on the habits of the 

 eel, and on the freshwater fish of Austria, 

 71. 



on some species of European pines, 



76. 



WiU (Dr.) on determining the amount of ni- 

 trogen in organic bodies, 53. 



Williams (Rev. D.) on the stratified and un- 

 stratified volcanic products in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Plymouth, 61. 



WooUcombe (H.) on the statistics of Ply- 

 mouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport, 82. 



Working classes, in Kingston-upon-HuU, con- 

 dition of the, 85. 



, income and expenditure of certain fa- 

 milies of the, in Manchester and Dukin- 

 field, 90. 



York minster, temperature of the air in, 29. 

 York, rain at, 30. 



Zoolog}', 68. 



of the county of Cornwall, 68. 



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