Assorption, phenomena of, 479. 
Absorptive force of glass molecules, 44. 
Abstract terms, treated by Carus as real 
entities, 254. 
Acid, new, combinations of, 470. 
——-, nitric, mode of ascertaining the 
presence of, 441. 
, tartaric, unequal dispersive powers 
-.of, 601. 
, chlorous, 270; preparation of, 275; 
volatility of, 279; properties of an aque- 
ous solution of, 280. 
Acids, hydrochloric, 271; carbonic, 272 ; 
acetic, 273; chloric, 274; hydrospiroilic, 
155; spiroilic, 160; hyperoidic, 282; cy- 
anic, 286; hydrophosphorous, 290; hy- 
perchlorous, 305; hyperbromous, 310. 
—, action of on organic colouring prin- 
ciples, 594, 595. 
®pinus, theory of, 449. 
Ether, Mossotti on, 450. 
Air, reflecting property of, 101. 
Alcohol, spectrum of the flame of, 492. 
Algz, infusorial motions of, 566. 
Alloys, and amalgams, table of, 520. 
Amici’s microscope, magnifying power of, 
570; improvements of, 580. 
Ammonia, hydrospiroilate of, 157; its 
composition, 158. 
—, nitrosulphate of, 473. 
Ampeére on the propagation of heat, 389. 
——.,, elementary particles of, 490. 
—, invention of the bascule of, 509. 
_——, on the action of the magnet, 608. 
Analysis, organic, 595, 599. 
— of wood, 143. 
——— of the subnitrate of copper, 422. 
| Anhydrous, sulphuric, and sulphurous 
| acids, new combination of, 443. 
Animal body, composition and internal 
formation of, 245; formation of the 
solids of, 246. 
Animal bodies, considered as aggregates 
of innumerable infusoria united into a 
living whole, 246, 565; as plants with 
the roots turned inwards, 243, 247, 251. 
Animal life, progressive development of, 
253 ; transition into vegetable, 572. 
Animal structure, a hollow globe contain- 
ing its roots withinside, 243, 244, 247. 
_Animalcules, gradual origin of, £62; cy- 
clical development of, 560; structure of, 
559; transparency of, 562 ; solution of, 
563. 
—,, infusorial, doctrine of, 564; 
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INDEX TO VOL. I. 
division of, into two classes, 564; wheel 
organs of, 564; similarity of, with larger 
animals, 564; geographical diffusion of, 
565; man dependent on the will of, 565. 
Animals, crustaceous, origin of, 565. 
Antimony, oxysulphuret ef, 433. 
Antinori on the electrical phenomena 
produced by the magnet, 621; experi- 
ments of, 608. 
Artificial light, effect of, 112. 
Ateuchus sacer ; At. Hgyptiorum, 193. 
Atmosphere, constitution of, 397; con- 
stitution of the superior regions of, 393; 
motion of light in, 393; refringent 
power of, 395. ¥ 
—, terrestrial, altitude of, 394. 
Atoms, doctrine of, 568; law of the re- 
pulsion of, 448; various arrangements 
of, 597; angular deviations produced 
by, 602. 
—-—,, hooked, of Epicurus, 476. 
——-—., organic, doctrine of, 571; utility 
ofinchemistry,571; Ehrenbergon, 555. 
Attelabus buprestoides, 197. 
Attraction, magnetic, rapid decrease of, 
508. 
Azote, chloride of, preparation of, 287. 
Bacillaria, siliceous shields of, 401. 
Balard on the bleaching properties of 
chlorine, 269. 
Barytes, combinations of, method of ob- 
taining in a crystallized state, 436. 
Bascule of Ampere, 509. 
—, mechanism of, 532. 
Battery, galvanic, Olm’s theory on, 312. 
Becquerel on the chemical effects of elec- 
tric currents, 414, 608. 
Beet root, sugar produced from, 605. 
Bergmehl, 406; fossil infusoria in, 401. 
Berthollean method of bleaching, 269. 
Berzelius’s experiments on the chloride 
of potassium, 273. 
, his views respecting the prima 
germina rerum, 571. 
Bilin, infusorial rock of, 409. 
Biot on the construction of the superior 
regions of the atmosphere, 398. 
on the application of circular pola- 
rization to chemistry, 600; to the ve- 
getation of the Graminez, 584. 
——, his method of oscillations, 513. 
——-, his experiments on electro-magnet- 
ism, 618, 619; on the electrical phz- 
nomena produced by the magnet, 621. 
Biurus of Cicero and Pliny, 198. 
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