456 
ye D., comets of 1812 and 1846,| 
Kir ns ood, J. P., on filtration of river 
waters for city supply, 446. 
L 
Laurite, Deeg the platinum of Oregon, 44 
¢ and Chris ee s Reliquiz sei 
a, Isaac, new ani of Genus Unio, 
&e., by, 
Lesleyite, Smith, 2 254, 
Lockyer, spectroscopic examination of 
; on meteor vl “May 20, 145. 
Tea 8, on a recent Cystidean, 429, 
Lutken, on Ophiuridea, noticed, 430 
M 
eee, strength of, by Van Buren, 
notice 
Maine he Soc, collection of, noticed, 
Maize, American, Atwater. 
Mars! h, 0. de on new werd ae Protich- 
INDEX. 
gee of we Zoology, Bulle- 
of, noticed, 451 
N 
Nature, a new weekly, 4 
Reptilia and Aver of N. "Americ, 451. 
1.||Nitro-prussids, formatio an 
Nobert, nineteen-ban ite st p i ‘of, 169. 
North- -polar expedition, Swedish, 227, 
0 
OBITUARY— 
J. Beete hie a 296; Charles Grafton 
Page, 1; George Peabody, 441; B. 
F. Shumard, 294, 
Ohio, ‘geological survey of, 417. 
“or bi of pant acid and chlo- 
of 
uci, ehational sa test ry 410. 
FP 
Page, Charles Grafton, obituary, 1 
Paleontology, vegetable, by W. C. Shim- 
Bae! notice 
oshage * _ Products of oxydation of, Gill 
and Me 
nites, 
on pom serpent from N. Jersey, 397. 
on new Mosasauroid reptiles from N. 
some 
Jersey, 
coor th A. M., notes on physics, by, 151. 
ort of ott, 436. 
eteoric stone of Alab Brush, 2 
Meteorites, PE ees relative to, — 
A. Daubrée 
_ light, rae ‘aul sound accompany- 
ing fall of, Haidinger, 280 
pone scopic ¢ test plate of Nobert, Wood-,, 
ard, 169. 
Albertite, seit » 362; 
Diamon , 441; Descloi- 
zite, Smith, 137; Durangite, Brush, 
179; inite, 138; Her- 
cynite, Wotle, 350; Hortonolite, Brush! 
and 171; Laurite, 
441; Lesleyite ~~ 54; Wollon- 
iman, 8 
Minerals of Mr. Schoolcraft, for sale, 442. 
Mississippi valley, J. W. Foster on, 
ticed, 150. 
|Physiol 
Parka it ae star-mapper, 163. 
Peabody, George, c geen ast i of, 442. 
Peckham, 8. F, itumens and forma- 
as of asphal 
os 131. 
origin of albertite, 362. 
prenniccs method of predicting occulta- 
tions, etc., Dy noticed, 449. 
dota a EF ", discovery of new pla- 
Phys ete — by A. M Mayer, 151. 
ogical Chemistry, notices of papers 
on, , 49. 
Pickering Ek C., solar eclipse, 425. 
Planet, a atin of new, ‘Peters, 400. 
Platinum sare ds, new series of, 
Pope, F. L., manual of electric telegraph 
by, noticed, 1 
: Potasipatinie ‘oxysulphoplatino-stan- 
Rico Grinois ete, from deep sea 
dredgin 51. 
Pestsactat® of societies, 152, 298, 451. 
Protichnites, new species of, from Pots- 
dam sandstone, Marsh, 46. 
R ; 
W., report on mineral re- 
Mossman, 8. 
es, 
Marsh, 392. 
serpent, from N. Jersey, Marsh, 397. 
