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INDEX, VOLS, I—x. 
— "epee eighth satellite of, vi, 437, vii,| permet in California, viii, > x 121.. 
Lass ell’s observation on, x, 309. 
TeVerrier’s (Neptune), seo iy ntune, 
small, times of discoy ey of, 
orbits a B. A. Go wld, vi, 28. 
_ Olbers’s theory of, vii, 
Astrea, i, 293, 413, ii, 434. 
on ecoveted by Hencke, iv, 286, 
vi, 437 
Vesta 
Iris, dntnert by J. R. Hind, iv, 425. 
Flora 
’ or ss of vy, 232, 
Iris, elements of, v, 135, 
Metis, erage gag of, ay 140, 278, 438, 
Di ia , 218 
Ilyzcia, wil 15, 
Kirkwood’s sah iy = ix, 395, x, 19, 26. 
ize for discov very ‘of, awarded’ to 
Hencke, ii, 4 
er etary nebulous masses near the sun, ili, 
444, 
Pla — oe W. Case, iii, 101. 
ey a mber of known species estimated, 
tS ok , (Darbya,) 
Po 
ag eak peat i of, D. ox iia ii, 
of Japan and United States, analogy be- 
tween, ii, 135 
yg New England, Oakes’s herbarium of, 
on some, E, Tucker- 
man, 
rhea ae species of Potamogeton, a 
Chenopodiacen of New York, J. Coa 
vii 167, 
latiner on crystalliz ed bile, 
neh des, central group of the his Mid- 
er, il, 433. 
Pleochroism, wed a 
Plesiosaurus 1 eph alus, i iii, 276. 
Plestiodon ¢ pieces, ix, 139. 
inian, anew m “ere” Tg, 127. 
Ploiaria maculata, ix 
Pliicke diamug Pant sm, 
ker, on 
pl } e xico Vii 
| 
Wilsoni, J. Leid 
Seana ben 276. 
Poi ns cted’ by Peas te tests, iy 
Pulorpotic. elliptic, ee iii, 262, 
reflexion, "Powell, i iii, 
264. 
new theory of, Challis, i iv, 412. 
of dev ¢ light, C. G. Page, vii, 
of the ph tc re, D. Bre ee 400, 
Po larizing structure of the eye, .D. "Brewster . 
ck in Vermont, v 110. 
rations of, i, 3 
sit wg suit bihel of, found fossil, ii, 
40, V. 
i Orbieny 3 work on, noticed, iv, 452. 
of South Carolina, iv, 45: nS 
pa 
so fcgurap ical istration 0 
52, 
H. Ww, erfect spied Shtoustiol 
oe 199, 
3 orcelain, aventurine glaze for, viii, eg 
vii, 
d rare, — of the 
uelen’s Island, vii, rig 
of Antarctic regions, viii 
Geographical distribution of, vil, 162, 
of Santa Ie, New Mexico, v, 
beh ee = geological epochs, A. Brong- 
niart, 
oan, of “oscaoo, C. Lyell, and C. T. 
F. Bunbury, ii 
of ichinend, Va. os iv, 114. 
of Frostburg, Md, ii, 4 
relations of living, to + Nessie; ii, 
é 
influence - light on the growth of, R. 
a iii, 
bad, 8 SG. Morton, iii, 209. 
4 ee of rine ba of nitrogen on, 
iii, 425. 
inorganic substances of, v, 125, 
salta Lc son to, vii, 299, 
water jodine in n, x, 110. 
Plate glass making in apis iii, 293, 
Platigen mal, v, 
103. 
ee, use oe action Le i, 
in the Urale and Siberia, ii, 120, 
apparatus for —s oe + ets et 44. 
—, in North Carolina, G Shep- 
P orter, Z A., action of nitric acid on woody 
fibre, i ¥; x, 20. 
ash an x, 20. 
eee on bromid oe a y, 124, 
- ossession Island, vii, 
Potamogeton, American species of, E. Tuck 
erman, ¥ 
Potash etal toda rendered poner i, 105, 
te Shang m i i 7 
Polke 
ration of, sa 
‘els fro wre gieensanil, H. "Wur x, 326. 
Poteau. specific c heat of, Re saul vii dll 
iv), 271, 
on the decompo ‘ot iodid of, x, 257+ 
Potato diseas , tii, 136. ; 
tom Oi 381 i¥5 7 
Potatoes, analysis of the ash of, ix, 20. 
Powell, —— indices of rani substan- 
ces, x, 
247, 256, 337, 
Precipitation of various substances by chat 
‘eppens, ii, * 
Poin rost, C.,, views 
mountains, i ii, 355, 
: — of the earth’s contraction, iii, % 
~~ 
in the Alps, vii, 137, 
_ Temarks on volcanic action, iii, 190. 
| Prichard, obituary notice of, vii, 492. 
270. , 
magne netic relations of ery viii, 430, 
ag 375, 
t, Provostaye and Desains, viii, 410, 
Prairies of Upper California and Oregon, Vil 
of, on the elevation of 
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