INDEX. 



PAGES 



Racliation.s, Solar 112 



RailroaJ, Angle Wheels 19 



" Traffic of Great Britain and Ireland 42 



" Iron, Durability of 237 



Railway, Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron 1' 



" Canada Grand Trunk IS 



" " Great Western 19 



" Great Subterranean, London, England 46 



" Grand Trunk, Notes of a Visit to 225 



" Inauguration of the Calcutta 210 



" Influence 147 



Railways, Nova Scotia 19 



" New Brunswick '. 19 



British, Report on, for 1852 103 



" in Canada 147 



" of Maine 149 



Refraction, Solar 3G6 



Refractometer, New 112 



Refuse of the Smelting Furnaces 242 



Report on the Recent Additions to our Knowledge of the Zoology 



of Western Africa 409 



Salt, Common, Solvent Action of, at High Temperatures 149 



Sault Ste. Marie Canal 309 



Saugeen Peninsula, Surrender of 1C8 



Scotland, Prehistoric History of 314 



Sculpture, Discovery of Ancient Greek 210 



Sea Water, Action of, on Hydraulic Mortars 41 



" Level, Changes in 57, 7G 



" Object of the Salt Condition of 186, 227 



Secondary Currents, Heating Effect of 113 



Shakespeare, Colossal Monument to 64 



Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Suez 337 



Ships, Stability of Iron 70 



Silica and some of its Applications to the Arts 107 



Silicates, Soluble Alkaline 333 



Silicium, Electro-plating of Metallic Articles with 15 



Silurian Rooks, Anthracite Deposits in 115 



" " ofCavan 173 



" On the Discovery of Microscopic Shells in 193 



Slags, Novel Application of. 94 



Smithsonian Institution 62 



" Letter on, by Professor Agassiz 216 



Smoke-consuming Fireplace 6, 25 



" Consumption of 148. 313 



Prevention of, in Steam Vessels 317 



Snow, Crystals of, during Cold Weather 



Soapstone 46 



Society of Arts 16 



Societies, Friendly 84 



Solidification of Bodies under Great Pressure 173 



Solar Flames, Red 356 



Spheroidal State of Bodies 11 



Statistics of British jVmerica 43 



" of Fibrous Materials 63 



" of Coal, Copper, &o 83 



P.\GES 



St. Clair Flats and Lake Navigation 213 



Steam Fire-Enginc 63 



" Navigation, Progress of 144 



'• E.xpansive Force of 149 



" as an Industrial Agent 315 



Steel, the Tempering of 312 



Stephenson, Robert 20 



Stereoscopic Phenomena 197 



Storm in India 70 



Sagar, Manufacture of, in France 149 



Suspension Bridge, Niagara 19 



" " " Dimensions of 149 



Sydenham Crystal Palace 292 



Swallow Tribe, Mortality among 388 



Tannin, Determination of the per centage of, in Substances 108 



Tannic Acid, Action of, on Iron and Alumina 113 



Tea, Chinese Method of Scenting 312 



Telegraph between Europe and America 4 



" Submarine, without Wires 70 



Temperature, Remarkable, at Toronto, July, 1854 46 



" of Fusion, Effects of Pressure on 159 



" Remarkable Low, at Isle Jesus, December, 1854.... 171 



" of the Cold Days in February, 1855 196 



Thermography, by Felix Abate of Naples 31 



Thermogenic Apparatus 412 



Toronto Harbour 68 



" Mean Meteorological Results at, during 1854 161 



" General Meteorological Register for 1854 163 



Towns, Salubrity of 264 



University College, London 293 



Vesuvius, Eruption of 293 



Vision, Theory of 345 



Visual Education as applied to Geology 9 



Volcanoes, Lunar 114 



Warming and Ventilating of Schools, by Neil Amott 101 



Water Wheel, Large 149 



" Works in the United States 259 



Wells, Frozen 3-58 



Williamson, James (Prof.), on the Longitude of Kingston 82 



AVheat fromiEgylops 308 



Whewell on the Material Helps of Education 66 



Wilson, Prof, Daniel, Observations suggested by Specimens of a 

 Class of Conchological Relics of the Red Indian 



Tribes of Canada West 155 



" " Hints for the formation of a Canadian Collection 



of Ancient Crania 845 



" ■' Some Associations of tho Canadian and English 



Maple 381 



Wool, Colouring of, by Mnreiide 17 



" Improved Process of 339 



Yield of tho Copper Minos for 1855 413 



