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INDEX. 



Society, Royal, recommend combined 

 magnetic observations and the esta- 

 blishment of observatories in the 

 United States, 242. 



Stainsby, Mr., death of, announced, 48. 



State records, early proposed publication 

 of the, 5. 



Steam-ship Savannah, the first that 

 crossed the Atlantic, 14. — log-book of 

 the, 193. 



Storm of the 20th of Dec, 1836, Prof. 

 Loomis on the, 187, 195. 



Storms, electricity the principal instru- 

 ment in the production of, 187. 



Prof. Loomis's views of, comment- 

 ed on by Dr. Hare, 193. 



Strabismus, operation recently devised 

 for, 273. 



Strickland, Mr., presents a specimen of 

 asphaltic rock from Seyssel, and mo- 

 saic work made therefrom, &c, 47. 



Strontium, extrication of, 130. 



portion of, laid before the Society, 



by Dr. Hare, 104. 



Stuttgart, Society for the publication of 

 historical and antiquarian works, 312. 



Sullivan, Mr., death of, announced, 136. 



Talcott, Capt., paper on the longitude 

 of several stations near the southern 

 boundary of Michigan, 7. 



Talleyrand, M., death of, announced, 29. 



Telescope, new, at the High School, re- 

 sults of observations with, 312. 



Tornado at Natchez, Prof. Forshey on 

 the, 243. 



at New Haven, on the 31st of July, 



1839, Dr. Dunglison on a, 111. 



near Philadelphia, Mr. Justice on 



a, 111,118. 



of limited extent at Philadelphia, 



July 13, 1840, 255. 



at Providence, paper on, by Dr. 



Hare, and Mr. Allen, 48, 58. 



at Somerset, Mass. Dr. Hare on a, 



42. 



description of a. by M. Peltier, ani- 

 madverted on by Dr. Hare, 122. 



Tornadoes, and the electrical theory of 

 their formation, 122. 



Townsend, Mr. J. K., announces by let- 

 ter the transmission of certain dona- 

 tions, 4. 



vocabularies in MS. of the lan- 

 guages of the Indians of the North- 

 west coast of America, 46. 



Dr., report on the letter from, 104. 



Trade winds, Dr. Hare on the, 187. 

 Tyson, Mr., letter on the early records 



of the State, 5. 



Uniones, Mr. Lea's paper on the, sup- 

 plementary note to, 11. 



Vaccine virus, new, 68, 90. 



Van Marum, Dr. M., death of, announ- 

 ced, 46. 



Vaughan, Mr., announces the death of 

 Benjamin Allen, LL.D. 217 — of Count 

 Balbo, of Turin, 74 — of Lucien Bo- 

 naparte, Prince of Canino, 276 — of 

 Dr. Thomas Cooper, 104— of Mr. 

 Dearborn, 7— of J. P. F. Deleuze, 325— 

 of Mr. Humphreys, 3 — of Mr. Keating, 

 234— of Mr. William Maclure, 209— 

 of Mr. Prinsep, of Calcutta, 267. 



announces the receipt of the Co- 

 chin Chinese Dictionary ordered by 

 the Society, 273. 



presents a transfer of a printed page 



according to a process invented by Mr. 

 Joseph Dixon, of Taunton, 206. 



Vision, effect on, by the operation for 

 strabismus, 273. 



Walker, Mr., on Mr. Osier's anemome- 

 ter and rain-gauge, 3. 



on Galle's second comet, 201, 215. 



refers to the discovery, by Galle, 



of a third comet, 215. 



on determining longitudes from 



corresponding observations of meteors, 

 161. 



on the August meteors, 261. 



on the meteors of August and No- 

 vember, 1840, 310. 



on the observations at Harvard, 



294. 



on the parallax of the star 61 Cyg- 



ni, recently investigated by Mr. Bes- 

 sell, 78. 



remarks on Dr. Sherwood's al- 

 leged discoveries in magnetism, 27. 



on a tornado of limited extent, at 



Philadelphia, on July 13, 1840, 255. 



Warren, Dr., of Boston, resolution in re- 

 gard to his letter on the subject of the 

 formation of an American association 

 for the promotion of science, 77. 



Water, decomposition of, by galvanism, 

 apparatus for the, 65. 



rapid congelation of, engraving of 



an apparatus and process for, 198,213. 



White, Bishop, obituary notice of, by 

 Bishop De Lancey, 117. 



Wickham, Mr. of Virginia, death of, an- 

 nounced, 74. 



Williams, Mr. Eleazer, grammar of the 

 Iroquois language, 46, 251. 



Worm in the eye of a horse, 200, 208, 

 209. 



