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INDEX. 



Documents and records, arranged, 35. 

 Dunglison, Dr., Cor. Sec, 119, 138, 



247. 

 Du Ponceau on Indian MS., 16 — on 



learned societies, 16. 



Earthquake, Prof. Rogers on, 258, 267 

 — Major Graham on, 259 — Dr. Pat- 

 terson on, 260. 



Egyptian ethnography, Dr. Morton on, 

 239, 247, 262, 270. 



Eclipses, Prof. Alexander on, 201. 



Election of officers, 1, 135, 245. 



Elephant, Asiatic, to be placed in cabi- 

 net, 276. 



Electric induction, Prof. Henry on, 193, 

 229. 



Electricity, of nascent vapour, Dr. 

 Mitchell on, 28, 38— Dr. Hare on, 

 160 — foggy air, non-conductor of, 

 180. 



Epistemonomie, Prof. Park on, 76. 



Emerson, Dr., on electricity from 

 steam, 3. 



Erman's discussion of orbits, Prof. 

 Peirce on, 6, 21. 



Ethereal liquid, new, Dr. Hare on, 142. 

 161. 



Espy, Prof. J. P., on nephelescope, 128 

 — Dr. Hare on his theory, 147. 



Evans' safety guard, 41. 



Expansion of function &c, Mr. Pow- 

 ers on, 40, 74. 



Exploring expedition, letter relative to, 

 232. 



Feldspar, Mr. Boye on, analysis of, 53 



— new variety of, 190. 

 Forshey, Prof., account of meteors, 67. 

 Franklin, Dr., ancient bond to A. P. S., 



16 — portrait of, 258. 

 Fusible metal, Prof. Bache on, 42. 



Geology of Berkshire, Mass., &c, Prof. 

 Rogers on, 3 — of west of Ohio, &c, 

 Prof. Rogers on, 120, 125. 



Gilliss, Lieut, magnetic curves, 38 — 

 observations of declination, 6, 150 — 

 description of magnetic observatory 

 at Washington, 180 — means of ther- 

 mometer and barometer, 150. 



Goddard, Dr., new process of taking 

 photographic portraits, 144 — daguer- 

 reotypes on gilded silver, 150. 



Graham, Major, magnetic observations, 

 84, 85 — earthquake, 259 — reflectors, 

 260. 



Hare, Dr.. strictures upon Mr. Red- 



field's opinions, 141, 225 — on new 

 ethereal liquid, 142, 161 — on report 

 of Espy's theory, 147 — on clouds, 

 147 — non-electricity of nascent steam, 

 160 — foggy air, a non-conductor of 

 electricity, 180 — fusibility of iridium 

 and rhodium, 182, 187 — persistence 

 of clouds between certain levels, 187, 

 190 — platinum, &c, 196 — objections 

 to the existence in the amphide salts 

 of certain compounds, 219. 



Hare, Mr. Clark, on perchlorate of ox- 

 ide of methule, 202, 505. 



Harlan, Dr., on nondescript fossil ani- 

 mal, 105 — report on his paper on Mis- 

 souri fossils, 109 — on the oryctero- 

 therium Missouriense, 109, 147 — to 

 make casts of megalonyx, 197. 



Hays, Dr. Isaac, on fossil bones of mas- 

 todon, 102 — on tetracaulodon, 105 — 

 remarks on Prof. Owen's paper on 

 Missouri fossils, 183 — resolution con- 

 cerning casts, 191 — on papers relating 

 to Koch's collection, 264. 



Hassler, F. R., description of barometer, 

 74, 81, 94 — on misconceptions of 

 Massachusetts survey, 98, 164 — Bor- 

 den's reply to, 164. 



Heckewelder on words in Lennape, to 

 be published, 6. 



Henry, Prof., on phosphorescence, 46 — 

 on the heliostat, 97 — on magnetic 

 distribution, 111 — effects of a thun- 

 der storm, 111 — electrical induction, 

 193, 229. 



Heliostat, 97. 



Heliotrope, Major Graham on, 260. 



Hessian fly, Dr. Coates on, 42, 96. 



Hopkinson, resolutions adopted upon 

 his decease, 139. 



Horner, Dr., corrects paper on masto- 

 don, 6. 



Hygrometer, dew-point, of Prof. Bache, 

 249, 252. 



Indian MS., Du Ponceau on, 16. 



Induction, electric, Prof. Henry on, 

 193, 229. 



Induction inclinometer, Prof. Bache on, 

 237. 



Integration of function, &c, Mr. Pow- 

 ers on, 218. 



Iridium, fusible, 182, 187. 



Isomerism, apparent, Dr. Brown on, 75. 



Jackson, Hon. Isaac Rand, obituary no- 

 tice of, 217. 



Justice, Mr., remarks on Madeler's map 

 of the moon, 125 — documents re- 



