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INDEX. 



Horner, Dr., reads a necrological notice 

 of Dr. Physick, 13. 



on the dental system of the Mas- 

 todon, 293, 307. 



on the remains of the Mastodon, 



and other extinct animals at St. Louis, 

 Mo., 271, 279. 



Hulliken, Mr. S. P., letter from, on an 

 inscription on a stone near Wheeling, 

 46. 



and Dr. Townsend, report on the 



letters of, 104. 



Humphreys, Mr. Joshua, on the naval 

 construction of the United States, 4. 



death of, announced, 3. 



India, silk culture in, 214. 



Indian Vocabularies, from Mr. J. K. 



Townsend, 4. 

 Indians of the N. W. Coast of America, 



vocabularies of the, 146. 



Valiente, vocabulary of the lan- 

 guage of the, 38. 



Ingersoll, Mr. C. J., reads an obituary no- 

 tice of Mr. Madison, 61. 



Inscription on a stone found near Wheel- 

 ing, 46. 



Institution, National, of Washington, let- 

 ter from the, 299. 



Iroquois language, grammar of the, 46, 



Jefferson, Mr., his writing chair deposit- 

 ed, 11. 



Justice, Mr., announces the arrival of 

 the astronomical instruments at the 

 High School observatory, 276. 



observations with the new teles- 

 cope, 312. 



presents an original document of 



Wm. Penn, 181. 



— — on a tornado on the 31st of July, 

 1839, near Philadelphia, 111, 118. 



added to the observatory committee, 



325. 



Kane, Mr., announces the appointment 

 of Dr. Bache as reporter to the Socie- 



deposits the writing chair of Mr. 



Jefferson during the Congressional 

 Session of 1776, 11. 



on the inability to distinguish co- 

 lours, 117. 



Keating, Mr. Wm. H, death of, announ- 

 ced, 234. 



Kendall, Mr. E. O., Paper on the lon- 

 gitude of several places in the United 

 states, deduced from the solar eclipse 

 of Sept. 18,1838,141. 



Lea, Mr., appointed to write an obituary 

 notice of Mr. Carey, 117. 



on certain facts by Mr. Rang, in 



relation to the torpidity of the Ana- 

 donta Chaiziana, 8. 



description of nineteen new species 



of colimacea, 173. 



on electricity from a common 



grate, 324. 



memoir on fresh water and land 



shells, 23, 282, 285. 



describes a new shell, Melania Cin- 



cinnatiensis, 66. 



notice of the Oolitic formation in 



America, &c, 214, 225. 



on the Patella Amasna, 181, 187. 



exhibits specimens of photographic 



representations of plants and shells, 

 171, 177. 



remarks on the tornado at Phila- 

 delphia, July 13, 1840, 255. 



supplementary note to his paper 



on the Uniones, 11. 



Le Comte, M., death of, announced, 60. 



Lennape language, words in the, 271. 



Linah, Col., report on the coins and me- 

 dals presented by, 70. 



Lloyd, Prof, of Dublin, convenient mode 

 of determining magnetic dip and in- 

 tensity, 77. 



Locke, Dr. John, on magnetic observa- 

 tions, 19, 24. 



magnetic observations in the N. 



W. of the United States, 181. 



on certain magnetic observations 



at Cincinnati and Louisville, 214,271. 



Longitude, determination of, from cor- 

 responding observations of meteors, 

 161. 



of various places in the United 



States, deduced from the solar eclipse, 

 141. 



of several stations near the south- 

 ern boundary of Michigan, by Capt. 

 Talcott, 7. 



Loomis, Prof, on Galle's second comet, 

 201, 215. 



report on his observations to deter- 

 mine the magnetic dip, at various 

 places in Ohio and Michigan, 116. 



astronomical observations made at 



Hudson observatory by, 129. 



additional observations of the mag- 

 netic dip in the United States, 144. 



observations to determine the mag- 

 netic intensity in the United States, 

 &c, 293, 299. 



on the storm in the United States 



about the 20th of Dec. 1836, 187, 195. 



Lorich, Chev., obituary notice of, 61. 

 Lunar occultations, observations of, 71, 

 227. 



Maclure, Mr. Wm., death of, announced, 



209. 

 Madison, Mr., obituary notice of, by Mr. 



C. J. Ingersoll, 61. 



